Piazza named partner at Tarter Krinsky & Drogin

According to Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP, Deborah Piazza has joined the firm as a partner in the Bankruptcy and Corporate Restructuring Practice Group. Piazza's practice is concentrated on complex transactional, litigation and advisory work relating to various types of restructurings, commercial finance, Chapter 11 bankruptcies and workouts. She represents corporate debtors, creditors, trustees and other parties in interest in various restructurings, financings, asset acquisitions and dispositions. She has experience representing debtors, trustees, liquidating agents and purchasers in the disposition of inventory and other assets. In addition to her transactional work, Piazza represents clients in all aspects of contested matters and adversary proceedings, including, but not limited to claims litigation, fraudulent conveyances, preferences, relief from stay motions, appeals and any type of bankruptcy litigation. Piazza also sits on the panel of chapter 7 trustees in the Southern District of New York. "Tarter Krinsky & Drogin is pleased to welcome Deborah Piazza as a partner in the Bankruptcy and Corporate Restructuring Practice Group. Her experience in all types of restructurings and insolvency issues and her representation of debtors, creditors and trustees is an exciting edition to our bankruptcy team," said Alan Tarter, TKD's managing partner. Piazza has spoken at various conferences and seminars on bankruptcy, restructuring and distressed financial issues. She is a member of the Turnaround Management Association, the American Bankruptcy Institute, the International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation, the New York Institute of Credit and the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees. Prior to joining Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP, she was a Partner and Chair of the Bankruptcy Department at Abrams Fensterman. From 1996-1998, Ms. Piazza served as a judicial law clerk for The Honorable Jeremiah E. Berk, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of New York. Thereafter she was recruited by the bankruptcy departments of Blank Rome, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft and Hodgson Russ, respectively. Ms. Piazza received her B.A. from Queens College and her J.D., cum laude, from Pace University School of Law.