Rudolph J. Di Massa, Jr., chair of the firm's Business Reorganization and Financial Restructuring Group, concentrates his practice in the areas of commercial litigation and creditors' rights.

He is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, the American Bar Association and its Business Law Section, the Commercial Law League of America, the Pennsylvania Bar Association and the Business Law Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association. He is listed in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, 2006 and 2007 editions, and was named as a "Super Lawyer" and one of the top 100 lawyers in Philadelphia by Philadelphia magazine, June 2005.

A 1981 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a graduate summa cum laude of Lehigh University, where he became a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Mr. Di Massa currently represents various secured and unsecured lenders in bankruptcy cases pending in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the Southern District of New York, as well as a number of European companies doing business in the United States.

Representative Matters

(A.S.K. Plastics, Inc.) - Represent turnaround consultant in litigation with debtor (malpractice and fraudulent transfer claims)
(Annlick Farm Supply, inc.) - Represent secured lender in bankruptcy case and in connection with claims (for fraud) brought against former shareholders
(Field Hotel Associates, L.P./LaGuardia Associates, L.P.) - Represent secured creditor
(Front Line Capital Group, Inc.) - Represent secured creditor
(Mondo, Inc.) - Represent foreign/principal supplier to debtor
(New World Pasta Company) - Represent potential lender
(North American Refractories Co.) - Represent various creditors
(Reliance Group Holdings, Inc) - Represent various defendants in receiver's preference actions against policy holders
(DVI, Inc.) - Represented creditor as claimant in bankruptcy case and in connection with claims against trustee of special purpose entity
(Federal-Mogul Global) - Represented Big 3 automakers in connection with declaratory judgment action involving Bankruptcy Code Sections 105 and 524(g)

Professional Activities

American Bar Association - Business Law Section
American Bankruptcy Institute
- Co-Chair, Mid-Atlantic Conference
Pennsylvania Bar Association
Philadelphia Bar Association
- Business Law Section
Eastern District of PA Bankruptcy Conference
Commercial Law League of America
Justinian Society

Admissions

Pennsylvania
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Education

University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D., 1981