Timothy T. Brock

Partner

  • Timothy T. Brock
  • Phone: +1 212 404 8781

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  • Duane Morris LLP
    230 Park Avenue, Suite 1130
    New York, NY 10169-0079
    USA

Timothy T. Brock concentrates his practice on corporate restructuring, bankruptcy and insolvency law, and its geographic scope is both national and international. He is experienced in successfully representing virtually all positions in the capital structure of insolvent enterprises and in providing broad support to the firm’s transactional practices. Mr. Brock’s wide variety of clients has included: lenders such as hedge funds, insurance companies, commercial banks and other institutional players; statutory committees of creditors and equity security holders; debtors-in-possession; insolvency investors such as high-yield mutual funds; foreign office-holders (in cross-border cases, mostly as recognized foreign representatives under Chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code); indenture trustees; bankruptcy trustees; a credit-rating agency; and acquirers of distressed businesses and assets.

Mr. Brock’s experience includes engagement in numerous notable and complex restructuring matters, including those affecting companies in real estate development, equipment leasing, retail, transportation, energy, entertainment, professional services, professional sports, publishing, resort management, travel, financial services, metallurgy and manufacturing. Mr. Brock has been engaged in numerous cross-border and international insolvency matters involving the United States and foreign jurisdictions including England, Canada, China, Argentina, Bermuda, Germany, Cayman, Dominican Republic, Isle of Man, Panama, Uruguay, Singapore, Barbados, Paraguay, Bahamas, Nigeria, and Japan.  Additionally, from 1996 until 2002, Mr. Brock was appointed to oversee the liquidation of certain assets of the then-largest hedge fund ever subject to Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, the Granite Funds, in the capacity of an independent member of the post-confirmation Litigation Advisory Board.

Mr. Brock is a frequent participant in complex mediations, and has been appointed to the Registry of Mediators for the Southern District of New York.  By order of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, he has been selected as a mediator in the Lehman bankruptcy cases and has been assigned to handle dozens of those disputes.  His mediation training includes the acclaimed Joint ABI & St. John’s University Law School 40-Hour Mediation Training Program.

Areas of Practice

  • Business Insolvency, Restructuring & Creditors' Rights
  • Litigation and Dispute Resolution

Admissions

  • New York
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Education

  • INSOL Fellow, International Global Insolvency Practice, LL.M.-level program
    - Honors
  • State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law, J.D.
    - Executive Editor, Buffalo Law Review
  • Case Western University Weatherhead School of Management, M.S.
    - Beta Gamma Sigma
  • State University of New York at Oneonta, B.A.
    - Alumni of Distinction Honoree

Honors and Awards

Professional Activities

  • Appointed to the Registry of Mediators for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
  • INSOL
  • American Bankruptcy Institute
  • American Bar Association
    - Committee on Business Bankruptcy
    - Section of International Law

Selected Publications

  • "Canada’s ‘Northern Lights’ Could Dispel Shadow of Bear Stearns over Chapter 15 Practice,” XXX No.9 ABI Journal 34 (2011)

  • "How the Assault on Offshore Havens in Bear Stearns Undermines New Chapter 15: Part I and Part II," XXVI No. 10 ABI Journal 34 (2007) and XXVII No. 1 ABI Journal 24 (2008), respectively

  • Co-author, "Fairfield Sentry Ltd. and the New Dawn for Cross-Border Recognition in Manhattan," No. 6 ABI Committee News: International Committee Newsletter, November 2010

  • Author, "Pre-Packaged Plans of Reorganization," Outline for the Practising Law Institute

  • Contributor, New York Law Journal Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law

Selected Speaking Engagements

  • Lecturer, Levin Graduate Institute of International Relations and Commerce, a joint NYC program of the SUNY Buffalo Schools of Management and Law

  • Lecturer, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business/Executive MBA Program