Timothy T. Brock

Experience:

Timothy T. Brock is a partner and head of the firm’s Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights Practice Group. 

Mr. Brock concentrates his practice in creditors’ rights, bankruptcy and restructuring.  He is experienced in representing virtually all positions in the capital structure of insolvent enterprises and in providing broad transactional support to the firm’s corporate and real estate practices.  Mr. Brock’s wide variety of clients has included commercial banks and other institutional lenders, committees of creditors and equity security holders, debtors-in-possession, high-yield mutual funds and other insolvency investors, foreign representatives (in cross-border cases under Chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code), indenture trustees, bankruptcy trustees, a rating agency and acquirers of distressed businesses and assets.  Mr. Brock’s experience includes involvement in a number of notable and complex real estate, equipment leasing, retail and industrial bankruptcies, cross-border insolvencies and out-of-court workouts and restructurings.  Additionally, from 1996 until 2002, Mr. Brock was employed to oversee the liquidation of certain assets of the then-largest hedge fund ever to become the subject of Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings—the Granite Funds—in the capacity of an independent member of the post-confirmation Litigation Advisory Board.

Admitted to practice before the New York courts, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and United States District Courts in the Southern, Eastern, Western and Northern Districts of New York and the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Mr. Brock is an active member of the American Bankruptcy Institute and INSOL, and he plays an active role in the American Bar Association, where he is a member of the Committee on Business Bankruptcy and the Section of International Law.

Mr. Brock has authored the recent “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, and is the co-author of “Fairfield Sentry Ltd. and the New Dawn for Cross-Border Recognition in Manhattan,” No. 6 ABI Committee News: International Committee Newsletter (Nov. 2010) and “Pre-Packaged Plans of Reorganization” (Practising Law Institute) and a contributor to the New York Law Journal 1995 Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law.  He is a frequent speaker on topics related to insolvency, most recently as a guest lecturer at the Levin Graduate Institute of International Relations and Commerce (a joint NYC program of the SUNY Buffalo School of Management and Law School) as well as at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business/Executive MBA Program.

Education:

Mr. Brock earned his undergraduate degree (B.A.) from the State University of New York at Oneonta, a masters of science degree (M.P.O.D.), Beta Gamma Sigma, from the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, and his law degree (J.D.) from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he was Executive Editor of the Buffalo Law Review.