Eric A. Rosen practices in the areas of bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, business litigation and commercial law. He has been helping companies and individuals reorganize their affairs for twenty five years. He regularly lectures on bankruptcy and out-of-court debt restructurings. He has authored chapters in leading publications pertaining to the restructuring of real estate loans, and the treatment of claims of secured creditors in bankruptcy cases.
Eric has represented publicly held and private companies, as well as individuals, as debtors and debtors- in- possession in cases under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code in which debt has ranged from less than $1,000,000 to in excess of $100,000,000.
Eric regularly advises secured and unsecured creditors in cases under Chapters 11, 7 and 13 of the Bankruptcy Code. He has substantial experience representing lenders providing post petition financing to debtors-in-possession in Chapter 11 cases, and holders and purchasers of distressed real estate mortgages and loan portfolios in prepackaged consensual and nonconsensual Chapter 11 cases. The amount of secured debt in these cases has ranged from less than $200,000 to approximately $200,000,000. He has also served as counsel to official creditors’ committees, and creditors’ committee members, in cases with in excess of $300,000,000 in claims.
Eric has participated in a number of well known bankruptcy cases, including R.H. Macy & Co., Inc., Drexel Burnham Lambert Group, Inc., Super Glue, Calumet Farm and The New York Post.
Eric has significant insolvency experience outside of bankruptcy court. He has represented clients in hundreds of out of court workouts and collateral liquidations. He has represented both debtors and creditors in non-judicial resolutions of lien rights, and in proceedings in state court pertaining to the enforcement of rights of secured creditors.
Eric has been lead counsel in a broad spectrum of business litigation matters, ranging from small arbitration proceedings to jury trials in federal court involving more than $35,000,000.
For almost fifteen years, Eric has been rated as having outstanding legal ability by Martindale Hubbell - the highest rating available - and as adhering to the highest ethical standards, by fellow attorneys and judges. He has been certified as a mediator by the United States Bankruptcy Court.
A member of The Florida Bar (Business Law Section), the Palm Beach County Bar Association (Bankruptcy CLE Committee and Lawyers for Literacy Committee) and the Bankruptcy Bar Association for the Southern District of Florida, Eric has also been active in the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the Commercial Law League of America and the American Bankruptcy Institute.
Eric is admitted to practice before all Florida state courts, all New York state courts, the United States District Courts for the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida, the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Eric received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University. He received his law degree from California Western School of Law, where he earned a merit-based academic scholarship, served as an Editor of the California Western International Law Journal and won the school moot court competition.
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