Abrahams, Tyler M.

Mr. Ackerman is an AV rated attorney (highest ranking for ethics and practice) who has practiced law for more than 30 years, concentrating on Bankruptcy Law, Debtors' and Creditors' Rights, and Litigation. Mr. Ackerman has successfully represented numerous public corporations and other corporate debtors in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy reorganizations, as well as Creditors' Committees, Investor's Committees, and Bondholders' Committees in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy cases; bankruptcy trustees in numerous Chapter. 7 and 11 cases; individual debtors in Chapters 7, 11 and 13 cases; defendants in preference, fraudulent conveyance, and other bankruptcy litigation; and banks, municipalities, insurance premium finance companies, the State Insurance Fund, and other secured and unsecured creditors and lessors in Chapters 7, 11, and 13 Bankruptcy cases. Mr. Ackerman has also successfully represented banks and other secured creditors, and landlords, as well as debtors, in commercial workouts, and unsecured creditors as well as debtors in compositions; and I have extensive experience in state law matters including foreclosures, individual and portfolio real property sales and purchases, replevins, collection actions, malpractice actions, and breach of fiduciary duty actions under ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code and other applicable state and federal law.

Mr. Ackerman was the Law Clerk for the Hon. Cecelia Goetz, U.S. Bankr. Judge in 1981-1982; and a member of the Panel of Trustees of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York between 1994 and 2012.

I Mr. Ackerman was also the editor of "Bankruptcy for Bankers" of the Banking Law Journal between 1999-2000; have authored 11 articles that were published in the Banking Law Journal, the New York Law Journal, and the Long Island Business News; and lectured at many legal seminars on Bankruptcy and Real Estate issues to Attorneys and Trade Associations.

Mr. Ackerman has been interviewed on television (CNBC and News 12-Long Island), and quoted in Inc. Magazine, and in articles published in New York Newsday.