An experienced bankruptcy litigator based in the firm's Fort Lauderdale and Miami offices, Scott M. Grossman represents debtors, trustees, landlords, secured and unsecured creditors, and asset purchasers in all aspects of bankruptcy matters. Scott has significant experience in bank holding company and hotel bankruptcy cases, and has represented trustees in large, complex bankruptcy cases. Scott also has substantial experience in bankruptcy tax matters and in litigation related to Florida's constitutional homestead exemption. Scott began his legal career as a Trial Attorney in the Attorney General's Honors Program with the United States Department of Justice, Tax Division, where he litigated federal tax controversies in Bankruptcy Courts and Federal District Courts. Areas of Concentration · Bankruptcy, reorganization and restructuring · Bankruptcy litigation · Bankruptcy tax matters · Creditors' and debtors' rights · Commercial litigation Significant Representations · Representation of the Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 Trustee for Southeast Banking Corporation, returning over 100 cents on the dollar to unsecured creditors and confirming a $1.6 billion Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization. · Representation of BankUnited Financial Corporation in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case of this savings and loan holding company. · Representation of the Chapter 7 Trustee for the estate of Abraham D. Gosman in the liquidation of this former healthcare magnate's multi-million dollar estate, which included a 6 1/2-acre oceanfront mansion, millions of dollars of artwork, and controlling interests in several hundred corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies and other entities, resulting in a significant return to unsecured creditors. · Representation of entertainment news website TMZ.com in the Lorraine Brooke Associates, Inc. bankruptcy case (O.J. Simpson "If I Did It" book case). · Representation of purchasers of boutique South Beach hotels from bankruptcy estates. · Representation of Goldman Sachs Mortgage Company as secured creditor of a resort hotel, with claims of approximately $195 million. · Representation of Gramercy Investment Trust as secured creditor of two hotels in related bankruptcy cases, with claims of approximately $100 million. · Representation of Capital Crossing as secured creditor in a psychiatric hospital bankruptcy case involving complex bankruptcy plan confirmation issues. · Representation of South Motor Company in a bankruptcy adversary proceeding to resolve competing claims to real property purchased pursuant to a Bankruptcy Code section 363 sale. · Representation of the liquidating trust for the estate of Reed E. Slatkin, perpetrator of a $240 million Ponzi scheme. · Representation of a billion-dollar international specialty retailer of jewelry and accessories in a multi-million dollar fraudulent transfer and preference action. · Representation of the liquidating trust in the Chapter 11 reorganization of a $500 million trucking company. · Representation of a Fortune 500 insurance company in litigation challenging a former high-ranking executive's state law homestead exemption claims. · Representation of Branch Banking and Trust Company as secured creditor in single-asset real estate case. · Representation of creditors in adversary proceedings to avoid and recover preferences and/or fraudulent transfers under bankruptcy and state law. · Representation of creditors in bankruptcy adversary proceedings and contested matters challenging debtors' exemption claims and objecting to discharge of their debts. Professional & Community Involvement · Secretary, Bankruptcy Bar Association of the Southern District of Florida, 2011-2012 · Treasurer, Bankruptcy Bar Association of the Southern District of Florida, 2010-2011 · Member, Local Rules Advisory Committee for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida · Member, American Bankruptcy Institute · Member, Turnaround Management Association · Member, American Bar Association Awards & Recognition · Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, 2011-2012 · Selected as a Rising Star in Super Lawyers magazine, 2009 · Listed, Legal 500 US, 2009 Previous Employment · Trial Attorney, United States Department of Justice, Tax Division, Civil Trial Section, Southern Region, 1999-2004 (Attorney General's Honors Program) Articles, Publications, & Lectures Articles · "Will Changes to Homestead Exemptions Really Thwart Abuse?" 44 Bankr. Ct. Dec. (LRP) 23 at A1 (July 19, 2005). · "Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005: Changes to State Law Homestead Exemptions and General Overview of Changes to Individual Chapter 11 Cases," Bankruptcy Reform 2005: Expert Analyses Examining and Predicting the Impact on the Commercial Practitioner, at 53 (Kate Colangelo and F. Joseph Fraracci, LLB, eds.) (LRP Publications 2005). Lectures · Speaker, Evidence and Expert Testimony in Federal Court, National Business Institute, Miami, October 29, 2008 (Also at Fort Lauderdale Office) |