GOTTESMAN LAW, PLLC

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.

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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

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CLERKSHIP

The Honorable James M. Peck

U.S. Bankruptcy Court - SDNY

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PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

American Bankruptcy Institute

New York State Bar Association

New York City Bankruptcy Assistance Project

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