Six New Attorneys Join Cole Schotz Bankruptcy Group

NEW YORK – Cole Schotz Meisel Forman & Leonard P.A. today announced the addition of five new members and one new associate effective March 1. Norman L. Pernick, J. Kate Stickles and Michael F. Bonkowski will practice in the firm's newly opened Wilmington office, while Irving E. Walker and Gary H. Leibowitz will practice in the firm's newly-opened Baltimore office. David Dean is joining Cole Schotz as an associate and will also practice in the firm's Baltimore office.

Pernick, Stickles, Walker, Leibowitz and Dean concentrate their practices in bankruptcy and all facets of corporate restructuring. Bonkowski's expertise is in complex business and corporate litigation in Delaware's Court of Chancery and elsewhere. All six attorneys were previously with Saul Ewing. 

The expansion increases Cole Schotz's roster of full time restructuring lawyers to more than 20, allowing the firm to provide expertise in several of the busiest restructuring venues in the country. The Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring Department has extensive experience in middle market Chapter 11 cases representing debtors, creditors' committees, equity holders, fiduciaries, acquiring entities and other parties with substantial interests in insolvency proceedings throughout the United States.