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MIAMI, FL – Howard J. Berlin, formerly a managing director and name partner at Kluger Peretz Kaplan Berlin, has joined the Florida business law firm Berger Singerman. Berlin is a shareholder resident in Berger Singerman’s Miami office and a member of the firm’s Business Reorganization Team.

Berlin brings more than 25 years of experience representing corporate debtors, secured lenders, creditors’ committees, and individual creditors in complex restructuring and insolvency proceedings.

Berlin is a former Chair of the Bankruptcy/UCC Committee of the Business Law Section of The Florida Bar and a former Chair of the Business Law Section of The Florida Bar. While Chair of the Business Law Section, Berlin advanced the development of the Complex Business Courts in the Florida Circuit Courts, and today there are three such divisions throughout the State, including in Miami Dade and Broward Counties. Berlin’s sense of civic responsibility and leadership skill set is reflected in his service as Mayor (2001-2003 and 2007-2009) and Assistant Mayor (2005-2007) and Councilman (2003-2005) of the Village of Bal Harbour, Florida.



"The transactional, tax and litigation expertise at Berger Singerman is outstanding and far surpasses that at many excellent firms substantially larger than Berger Singerman” said Berlin. “And the firm’s Business Reorganization Team has been a market leader for years. I am very excited to become a member of the team, and I look forward to contributing to its future growth and success.”


Berger Singerman’s Business Reorganization Team is widely recognized as a market leader in Florida. Each year since Chambers and Partners, the prestigious law firm and lawyer ranking guide in the U.K., has published Chambers USA, Berger Singerman has been recognized as a first tier Restructuring and Bankruptcy practice in Florida. For many years, the firm’s Business Reorganization Team has been involved in most of the larger bankruptcy cases in the State. Berger Singerman has recently represented Levitt and Sons and its affiliates in its bankruptcy cases and is co-counsel to Kirkland & Ellis in the TOUSA chapter 11 cases. TOUSA and Levitt and Sons are amongst the largest home-builder bankruptcy cases pending in the United States. Prior chapter 11 representations of the firm include Aloha Airlines, Piccadilly Cafeterias, Renaissance Cruise Lines, AT&T Latin America, Atlas Air and Polar Air Cargo.


Mitchell Berger, founder and Chairman of Berger Singerman, noted that the complexities of today’s economy have made large restructurings even more complex. “Howard Berlin joining us so soon after well known bankruptcy attorney Brian Gart joined our team is additional evidence of leading restructuring professionals in our market appreciating the depth of our restructuring resources and our tremendous talent in practice areas that are essential to the effective handling of the restructuring needs of large companies and organizations.”

Berlin is admitted to practice in the Courts of the State of Florida, the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He received his J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law and B.A. from George Washington University. Berlin is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell and listed in Chambers USA; Best Lawyers of America; South Florida Legal Guide, Top Lawyers in Bankruptcy, and Super Lawyers Magazine.