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Michael S. Etkin is a senior bankruptcy practitioner and commercial litigator with significant experience in complex business reorganizations and litigation as well as securities class action litigation. Mr. Etkin graduated from Boston University, cum laude, in 1975, and received his law degree, with honors, from St. John's University in 1978. He is admitted to practice in the state and federal courts of New York and New Jersey. In addition, Mr. Ektin was featured in the 2007 and 2008 issues of The Best Lawyers in America and the 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 issues of New Jersey Super Lawyers in the Bankruptcy and Workout section of the publication.
Mr. Etkin's bankruptcy practice includes the representation of debtors, trustees, secured and unsecured creditors and investors in a variety of complex bankruptcies and bankruptcy related litigation. On the creditor side, Mr. Etkin has had significant involvement in the Finley Kumble, Revco, Heileman Breweries, Drexel, Ames Department Stores, Jamesway, Trump Taj Mahal, Caldor, Fine Host, Lomas Financial, Heartland Wireless, Finova Capital and Carematrix Chapter 11 proceedings where he represented the interests of partners, major creditors, consumers, bondholders and shareholders. Mr. Etkin is currently representing shareholder and investor interests in the Reliance Acceptance Group, FPA Medical Management, PHP Healthcare, AMF Bowling, Harnischfeger Industries, Bennett Funding, Sun Healthcare, Fruit of the Loom, 360 Networks, McLeod USA, Pinnacle Holdings, Laidlaw, Warnaco, Global Crossing and K-Mart Chapter 11 proceedings. He is a recognized national expert in the representation of defrauded investors in bankruptcy proceedings and has lectured on the rights of securities fraud claimants and class action plaintiffs in a Chapter 11 context.
Mr. Etkin has represented major landlords in New York, New Jersey and Delaware in connection with bankruptcy proceedings involving their tenants and has represented both debtors and purchasers in acquisitions of assets of Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 bankruptcy estates. He has recently been retained as creditors' committee counsel in the Chapter 11 proceedings of several telecommunications companies, a wireless telephone retailer and as special counsel on behalf of Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 trustees to prosecute fraud and similar claims. He has also been retained as debtors' counsel in the Chapter 11 proceedings of an international industrial manufacturer and contractor, a major book publisher, a California shopping center and a software manufacturer. Mr. Etkin has also represented plan proponents in pre-packaged Chapter 11 proceedings and investors in liquidations under the Securities Investors Protection Act. He currently represents several large energy companies in the Enron Chapter 11 proceeding.
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Where to Litigate: Litigation Forum Choices in a Bankruptcy Proceeding
New Jersey State Bar Association Seventh Annual Bankruptcy Bench-Bar Conference, April 1, 2005
Michael Etkin, Eric Horn
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Automatic Stay Doctrine Applies to Certain Related Nondebtors
New Jersey Law Journal, February 5, 2001
Michael Etkin, Ira Levee
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Michael S. Etkin featured in an article describing his success in striking a deal for securities claimants in the WorldCom Chapter 11 litigation.,
New Jersey Law Journal, August 15, 2005
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Michael S. Etkin discusses the decrease of bankruptcy filings in 2005,
Philadelphia Inquirer, June 2005
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St. John's University School of Law
(J.D., 1978),
with honors
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Boston University
(B.S., 1975),
cum laude
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New York
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New Jersey
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1979,
U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York
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1979,
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
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1979,
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
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1980,
U.S. Tax Court
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1980,
U.S. Court of International Trade
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1981,
U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
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1981,
U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
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- American Bar Association
- New Jersey State Bar Association
- New York State Bar Association
- American Bankruptcy Institute
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