Ilan D. Scharf

Mr. Scharf specializes in financial restructuring and bankruptcy litigation, with a particular focus on representing creditors' committees of nonprofit entities. He has experience representing debtors, creditors’ committees, equity holders, asset purchasers, trade creditors, chapter 11 trustees, and other parties in business reorganizations and related litigation. He has experience before bankruptcy courts in New York, Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Mr. Scharf was named a Rising Star by Super Lawyers magazine in 2012, and has been selected as a Super Lawyer every year since. He is a graduate of Yeshiva University and received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Scharf was a law clerk to the Honorable Robert E. Gerber in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. He is admitted to practice in New York, and is resident in our New York office.

Representations

• Tort claimants' committees in Christian Brothers Institute and Christian Brothers of Ireland; Diocese of Gallup, New Mexico; Diocese of Helena, Montana; Diocese of Great Falls-Billings, Montana; Diocese of Stockton, California Archdiocese of Santa Fe, New Mexico; Diocese of Rochester, New York; USA Gymnastics; Boy Scouts of America; Diocese of Buffalo, New York
• Chapter 11 trustee in Le-Nature’s Inc.
• Creditors’ committees in Flying J; Salander-O’Reilly Galleries; SIRVA, Inc.; Foss Manufacturing; Neff Corporation; Hampshire Manufacturing; Orion Healthcorp
• Chapter 11 debtors in General Media; conflicts counsel in Spiegel
• Equity holders in Elite Model Management Corporation; Meridian Automotive Systems; OOC Apparel
• Indenture trustee in Onco Financial Company; A.B. Dick Company; Curative Health Services
• Liquidating trustee in Dairy Mart Convenience Stores
• Stalking horse buyer/plan sponsor in Centennial Healthcare
• Landlords in Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.; Levitz Furniture
• Investors in cases against independent auditors in accountant liability cases
• Examiner in R. Esmerian, Inc.

News

Publications

• Coauthor with R. Feinstein, "Update on the Role of Examiners in Chapter 11 Cases," 2004 Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law 421 (2004)
• Coauthor, "Mandamus Review in Bankruptcy Cases," 2003 Annual Review of Bankruptcy Law 187 (2003)

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