GOTTESMAN LAW, PLLC
Andrew R. Gottesman
BIO
Andrew Gottesman is the founding partner of Gottesman Law, PLLC and has over 20 years of real world experience in the public and private sectors. His practice focuses on representing corporate and individual clients in bankruptcy, consumer protection, creditors’ rights, corporate restructuring and distressed asset transactions.
While working at Willkie Farr & Gallagher and Schulte Roth & Zabel, Andrew represented debtors, secured lenders, unsecured creditors, asset purchasers, asset sellers and equity holders. He also gained significant experience in consumer cases while working in the public sector and serving as in-house bankruptcy counsel for Chase. Andrew also has the unique advantage among attorneys of being intimately familiar with the business side of claims and distressed debt trading, having run a trading desk for a small broker dealer.
EDUCATION
St. Johns University School of Law
Juris Doctor, 1998
Ithaca College
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science 1989
BAR ADMISSIONS
State of New York
Southern District of New York
Eastern District of New York
CLERKSHIP
The Honorable James M. Peck
U.S. Bankruptcy Court - SDNY
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Bankruptcy Institute
New York State Bar Association
New York City Bankruptcy Assistance Project
