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Sharon L. Levine is a 20 year veteran bankruptcy lawyer who has been involved in some of the nation's largest bankruptcy cases. As a partner in the Lowenstein Sandler Bankruptcy, Financial Reorganization & Creditors' Rights Group, the largest in the State of New Jersey, Ms. Levine's practice focuses exclusively on bankruptcy, restructuring, debtor-creditor law and bankruptcy litigation. Ms. Levine was featured in the 2008 edition of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business and in the 2005, 2007 and 2008 issues of New Jersey Super Lawyers in the Bankruptcy and Workout section of the publication.
Ms. Levine's recent representative matters include serving as counsel to the official unsecured creditors committee in cases such as Leiner Health Products, Inc., Marcal Paper Mills, Inc., Le-Nature's, Inc., Pliant Corporation, Foamex International, Premium Paper and Global Home Products, as special litigation counsel to the official unsecured creditors committee in Fedders North America, Inc., as counsel to substantial individual creditor interests in the Movida, Worldcom, Sterling Chemical, Solutia and Loral chapter 11 cases and as debtors' counsel for Summit Global Logistics, Inc. and Creative Group, Inc. Ms. Levine spends substantial time in bankruptcy court and, in the last few years, has appeared in the following bankruptcy courts: the Southern and Northern Districts of New York, the District of Delaware, the District of Hawaii, the Central District of California, the Northern District of Illinois, the Eastern District of Michigan, the Eastern District of Virginia, the Southern and Northern Districts of Florida, the Southern District of Texas, the District of New Jersey, and others. Ms. Levine's bankruptcy practice includes the representation of purchasers, debtors, creditor's committees, unsecured creditors, individual creditors, secured creditors, and equity holders. Ms. Levine frequently provides bankruptcy advice on "out of court" corporate reorganizations, corporate and structured finance matters and on acquiring assets out of bankruptcy or in circumstances where one of the parties may be insolvent. In addition, Ms. Levine served as bankruptcy counsel to the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers ("IAM") and represented the IAM in the chapter 11 cases of TWA, US Airways (I and II), United, Hawaiian Airways, Aloha Airlines (I and II) and Northwest.
Ms. Levine is a frequent lecturer on various bankruptcy topics, including issues of airline restructuring, discharge and fraud, retail bankruptcy issues, bankruptcy lease issues, telecommunication bankruptcy issues, preference issues, protection of creditors' rights in bankruptcy, and pre-bankruptcy planning.
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"Big Boy" Letters Raise Insider Trading Concerns In And Out Of Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy, Financial Reorganization & Creditors' Rights Alert, June 2007
John Hogoboom
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Sharon Levine
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S. Jason Teele
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Levine Gets Closeup View Of Airline Bankruptcies
Dow Jones, June 23, 2006
Sharon Levine
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Reducing Costs by Terminating Retiree Benefits in Chapter 11
New Jersey Law Journal, March 15, 2004
Bruce Buechler
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Sharon Levine
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S. Jason Teele
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Sharon Levine comments on the lawsuit against Fedders Corp. Ms. Levine is special litigation counsel to the "Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors" suing the air conditioning manufacturer's lenders and officers and directors.,
Effingham Daily News, June 30, 2008
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Sharon Levine comments on the pending sale of bankrupt pharmaceutical company Leiner Health Products Inc. to NBTY, Inc.,
Daily Bankruptcy Review, June 12, 2008
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Sharon Levine was featured in an article discussing her practice and representation of airline bankruptcy cases.,
Dow Jones, Daily Bankruptcy Review Small-Cap, June 2006
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Case Western Reserve University School of Law
(J.D., 1983),
Associate Editor, Case Western Reserve University Law Review
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Franklin & Marshall College
(B.A., 1980)
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New Jersey
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1983,
U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
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1988,
U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
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- New Jersey State Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Essex County Bar Association
- Federal Bar Association
- Women in Federal Practice, NJ
- Vice President (Immediate Past President)
- American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI)
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