Paul Steven Singerman, Co-Chair of the Florida business law firm Berger Singerman (Florida, USA), has been named 2013 Miami Litigation - Bankruptcy "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession.
After more than a quarter of a century in publication, Best Lawyers is designating “Lawyers of the Year” in high-profile legal specialties in large legal communities. Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community is honored as the “Lawyer of the Year.”
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Singerman concentrates his practice in troubled loan workouts, insolvency matters and commercial transactions. He is active throughout the United States in large and complex restructuring, insolvency and bankruptcy cases. His current representations include representing the Liquidating Trustee for the Trust formed under the Plan in the Taylor Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp. bankruptcy case and Judge Herbert Stettin in his capacity as Chapter 11 Trustee for the law firm Rothstein, Rosenfeldt & Adler.
Although he is best known for his representation of debtors in complex restructuring cases, he is also experienced in representing creditors' committees, lenders, large unsecured creditors, asset purchasers in § 363 sales and trustees.
Singerman is a past chair of the Business Law Section of The Florida Bar, and now serves on the Executive Council of this organization. He is also is a Fellow of the American Bar Association and is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, American College of Bankruptcy, and the Spellman-Hoeveler American Inn of Court. Singerman is recognized as a “Star Individual” in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2009-2012) and is the only bankruptcy lawyer in the state of Florida in four consecutive years to receiveChambers’ highest ranking.
He received both his undergraduate degree in Classical Studies, summa cum laude, and his law degree, cum laude, from the University of Florida.
Berger Singerman is a Florida business law firm with more than 70 attorneys working out of offices in Boca Raton, Fort Lauderdale, Miami and Tallahassee. Members of the firm have experience in all areas of commercial law, including banking, creditors' rights, business reorganization, bankruptcy, corporate & securities, dispute resolution and litigation, white collar crime, real estate, environmental and land use, health care, tax, estate planning, and probate.
