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Biography
Burton S. Weston is a Partner/Director of Garfunkel
Wild, P.C., which he joined in 2002, after
administering his own firm for 15 years.
Mr. Weston is Chair of the firm’s Corporate
Reorganization and Bankruptcy Practice Group,
representing debtors, creditors and creditor
constituencies in all aspects of the Chapter 11 process.
He is also a member of the firm’s Business Practice
Group, which advises clients on a broad array of
corporate and transactional matters.
Mr. Weston’s practice includes the preparation and
prosecution of Chapter 11 cases for corporate debtors,
the representation of creditors’ committees, creditor
constituencies and individual creditors in
reorganization cases, the acquisition and disposition of
assets and business in the Chapter 11 context, the
development of competing plans of reorganization for
potential acquirors of distressed entities, the advise
of parties in connection with the claims trading
process, debtor-in-possession financing, the defense of
preference and fraudulent conveyance actions, and the
representation of landlords to Chapter 11 debtors.
Mr. Weston has co-authored a bankruptcy text for inside
counsel and other practitioners entitled “Bankruptcy
Strategies for Corporate Creditors," and lectures
frequently on creditors’ rights and asset protection
issues to professional groups and attorneys.
He has served as Secretary to the Committee on
Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization for Association
of the Bar of the City of New York, is a member of the
Bankruptcy Committee of the Nassau County Bar
Association, and a member of the American Bankruptcy
Institute.
In addition, Mr. Weston has represented numerous
distressed hospitals and health care related facilities,
and mid-market companies in the retail, technology, and
manufacturing sectors and has successfully concluded
many reorganizations, both formal and informal
restructurings, allowing companies to emerge with new
financial life. He has also represented landlords and
other large creditors in many of the nation’s largest
Chapter 11 cases.
Mr. Weston's past experience reflects a blend of public
and private service. Mr. Weston served as an Assistant
United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New
York and he is a member of the Board of Directors of
Transition Services of Long Island, a Suffolk County
based not-for-profit agency.
Prior to joining
GW, Mr. Weston was a partner at
Kramer, Levin, Nessen, Kamin & Frankel, a prominent New
York City firm, and also administered his own firm for
fifteen years.
Mr. Weston received his BSBA from Boston University,
summa cum laude, in 1973, and his J.D., cum laude, from
New York University School of Law.
Publications
Buyer Beware, Inside Healthcare, August 2008
Insolvency crisis plagues hospitals; problem affects
both profits and nonprofits; several factors play role,
The National Law Journal, October 30, 2006
Bankruptcy Strategies for Corporate Creditors, Business
Law Monographs, Matthew Bender, 1984-1990 (co-authored
with Joel B. Zweibel, Esq.)
Presentations
Committee on Health Care - The Health Care Crisis in the
United States, 20th Winter Leadership Conference
sponsored by the American Bankruptcy Institute (Tucson,
AZ) December 5, 2008
Hospitals in Crisis: The Insolvency Crisis Plaguing
Hospitals Across the U.S. - Strategies to Combat
Insolvency (Beard Group Teleconference) - April 24, 2007
Honors
New York Super Lawyers - Metro Edition (2010-2011)
Who's Who in Tax &
Bankruptcy Law, Long Island Business News (February 2008) |
