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ERIC A. ROSEN is the founding partner of Rosen & Winig, P.A., a law firm with offices in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida and New York City. Mr. Rosen practices in the areas of bankruptcy and creditors' rights, out of court debt restructuring, business litigation and commercial law. He has been helping companies and individuals resolve serious business and financial issues for twenty five years. He has authored chapters in leading publications pertaining to the treatment of secured creditors in bankruptcy cases, problems in determining disposable monthly income in bankruptcy cases since the 2005 amendments to the Bankruptcy Code, and out of court restructuring of real estate loans. He has participated in a number of well known bankruptcy cases, including R.H. Macy & Co., Inc., Drexel Burnham Lambert Group, Inc., Super Glue, Calumet Farm, Levitt Homes and The New York Post. Mr. Rosen has served as lead counsel in representing publicly held and privately owned companies as debtors in liquidation cases, as debtors-in-possession in business reorganization cases, and in non-judicial debt workouts, liquidations and state insolvency proceedings in diverse areas, including retail sales, manufacturing, commercial real estate, dairy products, graphic design, advertising, medical supply sales, funeral services, professional services, construction and marketing research. The amount of debt in these cases has ranged from less than $100,000 to in excess of $100,000,000. He has represented institutional and individual lenders, investors, mortgagees, venture capitalists, publishers, factors, landlords, credit card companies and processors, sellers, purchasers and employees, among others, as secured and unsecured creditors, in small, medium-sized and large cases under Chapters 11 and 7 of the Bankruptcy Code. The amount of valid debt in some of the cases in which he has represented lenders has exceeded $200,000,000. Mr. Rosen has represented court-appointed trustees in cases under chapters 11 and 7 of the Bankruptcy Code, petitioning creditors in contested involuntary bankruptcy cases, and creditors' committees in chapter 11 cases. The amount of claims in these cases has ranged from under $10,000,000 to in excess of $300,000,000, with disputed claims in excess of $1.6 Billion. He has also participated in a number of out of court workouts on behalf of debtors, and collateral liquidations, as well as judicial enforcements of lien rights, on behalf of institutional and individual lenders. Mr. Rosen has been lead counsel in a broad spectrum of business litigation matters. He has won a substantial number of cases on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants, ranging from small arbitration proceedings, to bench trials and appeals in state court, to multi-week jury trials in federal court involving more than $35,000,000. For more than almost fifteen years, Mr. Rosen has been rated as having preeminent legal ability by Martindale Hubbell (the highest rating available) and as adhering to the highest ethical standards, by fellow attorneys and judges. He has been certified as a mediator by the United States Bankruptcy Court. A member of The Florida Bar (Business Law Section), the Palm Beach County Bar Association (Bankruptcy CLE and Lawyers for Literacy Committees), Mr. Rosen also sits on the Board of Directors of the Bankruptcy Bar Association of the Southern District of Florida. He regularly lectures on bankruptcy, insolvency and litigation-related issues. Recent topics include: "Crossroads, the Intersection of Real Estate and Bankruptcy Law in Chapter 11 Cases" (Palm Beach County Bar Association, 2008); "What Every Collection Lawyer Needs to Know About Bankruptcy" (Palm Beach County Bar Association, 2009); "Ethical Obligations of Debtor's Counsel" (National Business Institute, August, 2009); "Post Confirmation Modification of Plans in Chapter 13 Cases" (National Business Institute, November, 2010) and "Protecting The Creditor's Rights During Bankruptcy Cases" (National Business Institute, December, 2010). Mr. Rosen has also served as a moderator at seminars at which bankruptcy judges have addressed current issues. He is admitted to practice before all Florida state courts, all New York state courts, the United States District Courts for the Southern and Middle districts of Florida, the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern districts of New York, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Mr. Rosen earned his undergraduate degree from Columbia University. He earned his law degree from California Western School of Law, where he was awarded a merit-based academic scholarship, served as an Editor of the California Western International Law Journal, and won the school moot court competition.
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