Attorney Profiles

Jay Teitelbaum

White Plains, New York

Phone: (914) 437-7670
(646) 233-3013
Fax: (914) 437-7672
Email: jteitelbaum@tblawllp.com

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Over the past 25 years, as an associate at Zalkin Rodin & Goodman and a partner in the bankruptcy and restructuring group of Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Mr. Teitelbaum has developed a commercial law practice with specialization in commercial transactions and litigation, creditor's rights and bankruptcy and restructuring. Jay has represented senior secured lenders, DIP Lenders, unsecured creditors, equity holders, buyers and sellers of property, debtors, and other significant parties in interest in many of the most prominent and complex bankruptcy cases in this country, including The Tribune Companies; Lehman Brothers; United Airlines; Kmart; Polaroid; Burlington Industries; Wolf Camera ; Oneida; Navigator Gas Transport PLC; RCN; Calpine Generating; American Plumbing & Mechanical; AHERF; Covanta, Tower Automotive; American Business Financial Corp; American Commercial Lines; and Galey & Lord. Jay has extensive trial and appellate experience in state and federal courts throughout the country, including appellate arguments before the Second and Eleventh Circuits.

In April 2007, Mr. Teitelbaum started the firm of Teitelbaum & Baskin, LLP with Ron Baskin, so that they could provide big firm expertise and quality in an efficient and cost effective format. Based in White Plains, New York and New York City, the Firm is involved in all size commercial matters in New York City, Westchester, and surrounding counties, including cases in the Eastern, Northern and Western Districts of New York. Continuing to focus on commercial transactions and litigation and bankruptcy and restructuring, the Firm currently represent numerous victims in a $150 million fraud case which is the subject of a Chapter 11, The 1031 Tax Group, (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 07-1 1448).

Mr. Teitelbaum has built his career on his ability to create consensus and get deals done, whether for a lender, a buyer or seller, or a party to a complex litigation or transaction. In addition, over the course of his career, Jay has served as a volunteer on quasi judicial local government boards, including terms as a trustee and zoning board member in the Village of Ardsley, New York, and as a planning board member in the Village of Briarcliff Manor, New York. The years of community service further demonstrate his commitment to the law and to using his legal expertise to fashion fair and consensual resolutions.

Mr. Teitelbaum is an approved mediator in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Jay is a graduate of St. John's University School of Law (1985), and of Hofstra University, with a Bachelors of Business Administration in Accounting (1982).  He is admitted in the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division - First Department (1986); United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York (1986); United States Court of Appeals - 2d. Circuit (1990); United States Supreme Court (1991); United States District Court, Western District of New York (2002); Northern District of New York (2009); United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit (2005).

Jay has also been admitted pro hac vice in numerous Bankruptcy and District Courts including: Delaware, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Texas, Missouri, New Jersey, Iowa, New Hampshire, and Georgia.


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