Ilan D. Scharf

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Ilan D. Scharf: Attorney with Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP

Biography

Ilan Scharf, resident in the firm’s New York office, specializes in financial restructuring and bankruptcy litigation with a particular focus on representing creditors’ committees of religious institutions and nonprofit entities. His practice focuses on representing tort claimant and creditors’ committees in chapter 11 cases. Ilan has also represented debtors, equity holders, asset purchasers, trade creditors, chapter 11 trustees, and other parties in business reorganizations and related litigation. He has appeared before bankruptcy courts across the United States, including New York, Delaware, New Jersey, New Mexico, California, Missouri, Montana, Texas and Pennsylvania. In 2012, Ilan was named a Rising Star by Super Lawyers magazine and has been selected as a Super Lawyer every year since. Prior to joining PSZJ in 2003, Ilan was a law clerk to the Honorable Robert E. Gerber in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York and was an associate at a multinational law firm. He received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Yeshiva University.

Clerkships

•Law clerk, Judge Robert E. Gerber (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2001-02)

Publications

•Show and Tell: Ad Hoc Committees’ Rule 2019 Disclosures Under Examination 28 ABI Journal No. 2, March 2009
•E-Discovery Issues Business Credit, October 2008
•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)

News

Nine PSZJ Attorneys Named to 2024 New York Metro 'Super Lawyers' List; Three Recognized as 'Rising Stars'

October 24, 2024

PSZJ Attorneys Named in 2025 Edition of Best Lawyers in America and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch

August 15, 2024

PSZJ Attorneys Named in 2024 Edition of Best Lawyers in America

August 17, 2023

PSZJ Attorneys Named in 2023 Edition of Best Lawyers in America

August 18, 2022

PSZJ Attorneys Named in 2022 Edition of Best Lawyers in America

August 19, 2021

PSZJ Attorneys Named in 2021 Edition of Best Lawyers in America

August 20, 2020

Diocese of Great Falls-Billings Confirms Chapter 11 Plan

August 16, 2018

Abuse Victims' Committee Settles With Catholic Religious Order Operating Schools

May 24, 2013

Pachulski Stang Selected to Represent Creditors in Christian Brothers Chapter 11 Cases

May 1, 2011

Pachulski Stang Honored for Work on Flying J and The Walking Company Chapter 11 Cases

The M&A AdvisorMarch 9, 2011

Eight PSZJ Attorneys Named to New York Metro “Super Lawyers” and 'Rising Stars' Lists for 2021

September 1, 2021

Events

Accountability & Protection: Child Sexual Abuse Claims in Chapter 11

Child USA Los Angeles, CA, October 27, 2023

From Conference Rooms to Zoom Break-Out Rooms: Mediation in the Time of COVID and Beyond

37th Annual Association of Insolvency & Restructuring Advisors Bankruptcy & Restructuring Conference Virtual, June 17, 2021

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Areas of Practice (1)

  • Bankruptcy

Education & Credentials

University Attended:
Yeshiva University, B.A., cum laude, 1998
Law School Attended:
University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D., 2001
Year of First Admission:
2002
Admission:
2002, New York; U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
Birth Information:
Boston, Massachusetts, January 2, 1976
Reported Cases:
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; Diocese of Ogdensburg, NY; Individual survivors of Child Sexual Abuse Material in nondischargeability actions against debtors convicted of viewing CSAM; The creditors' committee and subsequent liquidating trust for Rochester Drug Co-operative, where the firm is pursuing a lawsuit against former directors of an opioid distributor; 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.
ISLN:
916875419

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