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Goldberg Kohn is pleased to announce that 16 firm attorneys have been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2025 Edition, and 15 have been named to Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America. Best Lawyers honors exceptional attorneys across the United States annually with their Best Lawyers and Ones to Watch lists. Selection for these lists is based completely on feedback gathered from peer attorneys. Only the top 5.7 percent of elite lawyers in the nation across 150 practice areas are included.
While the Best Lawyers list recognizes established attorneys within their field, the Ones to Watch list honors outstanding attorneys who have five to nine years of legal experience.
Goldberg Kohn's Best Lawyers in America Honorees
Denise Caplan (Corporate Law). Deni represents private equity investors, businesses and business owners in a broad array of corporate law matters, and regularly advises on corporate start-ups and corporate contracts.
David Chizewer (Commercial Litigation). David chairs Goldberg Kohn's Litigation Group. He has achieved remarkable success for clients across industries, geography, and in all stages of litigation. On the defense side, he represents clients in bet-the-company litigation, including trying a case in a rural, plaintiff-friendly district where he obtained a remarkable result for his defendant client in the face of extreme jury bias.
Jeremy Downs (Bankruptcy & Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency & Reorganization Law). Jeremy represents senior secured lenders, junior lenders and large unsecured creditors in corporate bankruptcies and workouts. In his general bankruptcy practice, he assists clients in the negotiation, documentation and litigation of debtor-in-possession financing, use of cash collateral, asset sales, relief from the automatic stay, and various related procedural matters. As a workout attorney, he handles the negotiation and documentation of out-of-court restructurings and liquidations through forbearance agreements, receiverships, assignments for benefit of creditors and UCC sales.
Zachary Garrett (Bankruptcy & Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency & Reorganization Law). Zach represents secured and unsecured creditors, purchasers and assignees in all aspects of commercial workouts and corporate bankruptcies, including restructurings, reorganizations, sales and liquidations.
Dimitri Karcazes (Bankruptcy & Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency & Reorganization Law). Dimitri is Co-Chair of the firm's Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights Group. He represents lenders in the protection and enforcement of creditors’ rights and is involved in all aspects of commercial workouts and bankruptcies, including restructurings, reorganizations, sales and liquidations, as well as out-of-court workouts and assignments for the benefit of creditors.
Randall Klein (Bankruptcy & Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency & Reorganization Law and Litigation - Bankruptcy). Randy is Co-Chair of the firm’s Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights Group. He concentrates his practice on the protection and enforcement of creditors’ rights. Randy is nationally recognized as a leader in his field, and for his experience in the drafting and enforcement of intercreditor agreements and unitranche agreements.
Jon Klinghoffer (Employment Law – Management; Labor Law – Management; and Trade Secrets Law). Jon defends employers across the country in actions involving Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the ADA, FMLA and FLSA, and various state law discrimination and wage and hour claims, the WARN Act, ERISA class action claims, COBRA claims, unfair labor practice charges and other matters before the NLRB. He also regularly counsels clients regarding their employment practices and policies.
Richard Kohn (Commercial Finance). Richard represents banks and other financial institutions in structuring and documenting credit facilities, with a focus on cross-border lending transactions - an area in which he is widely recognized as a pioneer. For more than 20 years, he has been active in the reform of secured transactions law, including serving as a member of the Expert Group for the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law in preparation of its "Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions" (2007).
Adam Laser (Real Estate Law). Adam is Chair of the firm's Real Estate Group. He has extensive experience in real estate finance, with a particular focus on the structuring, origination, negotiation, and workout of commercial mortgage loans. His experience includes permanent, bridge and construction mortgage lending, mortgage origination for commercial mortgage-backed securitization programs, mezzanine financing, syndications, ground lease financing, workouts and restructurings.
William Loesch (Corporate Law). Will is Chair of the firm's Corporate Group. He advises businesses ranging from start-ups to public companies in a variety of matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other strategic alliances, debt and equity financing, dealership and distributorship relationships, and employment and consulting agreements. He also has extensive experience in education law, particularly in mergers and acquisitions of post-secondary schools, both domestic and international, and education technology businesses.
William Meyers (Commercial Litigation). Bill handles a variety of complex commercial litigation matters in courts nationwide. He has extensive experience in bankruptcy and insolvency litigation, regularly protecting the rights of secured creditors in these proceedings. He litigates cash collateral/adequate protection disputes, plan confirmation issues, claims objections, valuation disputes, relief from stay motions and receivership actions. Bill has also litigated a number of intellectual property disputes.
Anne Marie Pisano (Commercial Finance). Anne Marie has more than 20 years of experience representing banks and other commercial lenders in documenting, negotiating and closing asset-based and cash flow loans, including bilateral and syndicated credit facilities, workouts and restructurings, and working capital and acquisition financings. She also represents minority lenders in broadly syndicated, large market multibillion-dollar credit facilities.
James Rosenbloom (Real Estate Law). Jim has a broad-based practice representing clients in real estate, commercial finance and bankruptcy matters. He represents institutions and investors in financing transactions for real estate acquisitions, refinancings, restructurings and working capital. He also represents them in purchasing and selling real estate assets, including whole loans or loan tranches.
Gary Ruben (Real Estate Law). Gary represents clients in all aspects of real estate, including financing, construction financing, acquisitions, sales, leasing, joint ventures, workouts, foreclosures and bankruptcies. He has extensive experience working with lenders making loans in the senior care and health care industries. Gary also represents clients in complex sale-leaseback transactions, including the financing issues arising in such matters both as to senior and mezzanine debt.
Michael Sullivan (Labor & Employment). Mike is Chair of the firm's Labor & Employment Group. He has more than 30 years of experience counseling employers on sensible, best-practice labor and employment policies as well as in defending them in disputes with their employees. He counsels clients nationwide through the myriad of employment issues that arise under civil rights and anti-discrimination laws, wage-hour laws, employment contracts, leave laws, restrictive covenants and employment torts.
Kenneth Ulrich (Commercial Litigation). Ken represents clients in complex commercial litigation, including directors' and officers' liability and related insurance coverage issues, insurance coverage work for policyholders, breach of contract, fraud, and constitutional and government litigation.
Goldberg Kohn's Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch Honorees
Alison Carrizales* (Commercial Finance). Alison represents banks and non-bank financial institutions in structuring, negotiating and documenting a broad range of commercial finance transactions, including first and second lien credit facilities, asset-based loans, acquisition and working capital financings, recapitalizations, refinancings and other complex financial transactions. She also has experience representing corporate borrowers and leading private equity sponsors in a variety of financing transactions.
Alexandria Filush (Commercial Finance). Alex represents banks and non-bank financial institutions in structuring, negotiating and documenting a broad range of commercial finance transactions. These include secured cash-flow and asset-based loan transactions, acquisition and working capital financings, senior secured, first lien/second lien, split-lien and unitranche credit facilities, cross-border and mezzanine financings, recapitalizations, refinancings, loan workouts and restructurings, and other complex commercial finance transactions.
Maya Foster (Commercial Finance). Maya represents banks, finance companies and other financial institutions in a broad range of complex commercial finance transactions. She is experienced representing financial institutions in syndicated and single-lender senior cash-flow and asset-based secured loan transactions and junior capital providers in second lien, unsecured mezzanine and unitranche transactions in connection with acquisition and working capital financings, split lien credit facilities, refinancings and recapitalizations, debtor-in-possession financings, restructurings, workouts and other bankruptcy related matters.
Ross Friedman (Corporate Law and Business Organizations, including LLCs and Partnerships). Ross advises private equity, family offices, privately held companies, startups and lenders on a variety of complex transactional matters, including domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, investments, joint ventures, debt and equity restructurings, and other transactions. He also provides general corporate advice to clients, which includes structuring and reviewing commercial agreements.
Joseph Hoolihan (Commercial Litigation). Joe represents plaintiffs and defendants in high-stakes commercial litigation in state and federal courts across the country. He represents clients in class action, product liability, false advertising, False Claims Act, fraud, civil conspiracy, breach of fiduciary duty, data breach, bankruptcy, intellectual property, and breach of contract disputes.
Yasamin Kaye (Bankruptcy & Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency & Reorganization Law). Yasamin concentrates her practice on financial restructuring, bankruptcy, general commercial litigation and distressed real estate foreclosures. She represents debtors, creditors, trustees and committees in bankruptcy proceedings, and is experienced in Chapter 11 reorganizations and Chapter 7 liquidations. She is also experienced in prosecuting foreclosure actions for a wide variety of commercial properties.
Prisca Kim* (Bankruptcy & Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency & Reorganization Law). Prisca represents lenders in the protection and enforcement of creditors' rights in commercial workouts and bankruptcies, including in restructurings, reorganizations, sales, liquidations, receiverships, assignments for the benefit of creditors, and out-of-court workouts. She is experienced in the representation of creditors and purchasers in connection with the negotiation and documentation of debtor-in-possession financing orders, cash collateral orders, sale orders and plans of reorganization.
Meredith Kirshenbaum (Labor & Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor & Employment). Meredith helps clients navigate labor and employment issues, litigation, and the challenges of commercial disputes. In Meredith's traditional labor law practice, she represents employers in unfair labor practice charges and in other matters pending before the National Labor Relations Board. She counsels employers during union organizing campaigns, defends employer interests throughout the union-election process, and negotiates union contracts. Meredith devotes a considerable portion of her practice to representing and advising charter schools.
Bojan Lazic (Real Estate Law). Bojan represents lenders in connection with the negotiation, documentation and closing of various real estate financing transactions. He handles mortgage and mezzanine financing, construction financing, and mortgage origination for commercial mortgage-backed securitization programs. He also represents clients in connection with the acquisition, disposition and leasing of real estate.
Christopher Marquez (Commercial Finance). Chris has extensive experience in structuring, negotiating, documenting and closing leveraged acquisition and working capital financings, recapitalizations, senior secured, split lien and unitranche transactions, and cross-border finance transactions. His practice covers a wide range of the middle market, with deal sizes ranging from $5 million to $400 million, and involves borrowers across a broad spectrum of industries and sectors.
Christopher Swartout (Commercial Finance). Chris represents banks and non-bank financial institutions in a broad range of commercial finance transactions, including acquisition and working capital financings, recapitalizations, refinancings and other complex financial transactions. He is experienced with secured asset-based and cash-flow loan transactions, first-lien/second-lien, split-lien and unitranche structures, and mezzanine and hybrid lending products. He frequently represents lenders in international financings involving multiple jurisdictions.
Daniel Toren (Commercial Finance). Dan represents banks and other financial institutions primarily engaged in middle-market lending activities in documenting, negotiating and performing due diligence for asset-based and cash-flow commercial finance transactions.
Steven Torrez (Commercial Finance). Steve represents banks and other financial institutions primarily engaged in middle-market lending activities in documenting, negotiating and performing due diligence for asset-based and cash-flow commercial finance transactions.
Kevan Ventura (Real Estate Law). Kevan's commercial real estate practice has encompassed all forms of real estate transactions, including financing, development, leasing, acquisitions, and dispositions. He focuses his practice on the representation of financial institutions in connection with structuring, negotiating and syndicating complex real estate loans secured by all asset types.
Jenna Ward (Commercial Finance). Jenna represents commercial lending institutions in structuring, negotiating, documenting and closing financing transactions, including asset-based secured loans, cash flow loans, first and second lien credit facilities, leveraged buyouts and debtor-in-possession financings across a broad array of industries.
*Indicates those listed in Best Lawyers in America for the first time.
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