Andrew Gottesman

Expertise Andrew Advises Experience Highlights Career History

Partner

Bankruptcy/ Reorganization

Office : New York

Law School : St. John’s University School of Law

Expertise

Andrew is a seasoned bankruptcy and restructuring attorney with extensive experience advising clients on complex bankruptcy, reorganization, and corporate restructuring matters. He enjoys a national practice which focuses on advising clients in bankruptcy and corporate restructuring on matters including debt and business restructuring, creditors’ rights, distressed asset transactions and distressed trading.

Andrew Advises

Over the course of his career, Andrew has represented debtors, secured lenders, unsecured lenders, asset purchasers, asset sellers, equity holders and has been in-house counsel at JP Morgan Chase. During the last major economic crisis, he clerked for the Hon. James M. Peck in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Experience Highlights

Prior to joining gunnercooke, Andrew was a Member of Rosenberg & Estis and a Partner at Mintz & Gold LLP, where he headed the firm’s Bankruptcy and Restructuring practice. Prior to that, he worked in the Business Reorganization and Restructuring departments of two major law firms and ran his own successful practice.

Andrew is a graduate of St. John’s University School of Law, where he was an editor of the American Bankruptcy Institute Law Journal. Andrew regularly appears in bankruptcy courts throughout the country and has completed the American Bankruptcy Institute/St. John’s University School of Law Bankruptcy Mediation Training program.

Career History

Previous Law Firms

  • Rosenberg & Estis, P.C.
  • Mintz & Gold LLP
  • Gottesman Law, PLLC
  • In-house counsel at JP Morgan Chase
  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Education:

  • St. John’s University School of Law (J.D.)
  • Ithaca College (B.A.)

Bar Admission

  • New York State, 1999
  • Southern District of New York, 1999
  • Eastern District of New York, 2016

Expertise

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Andrew is a seasoned bankruptcy and restructuring attorney with extensive experience advising clients on complex bankruptcy, reorganization, and corporate restructuring matters. He enjoys a national practice which focuses on advising clients in bankruptcy and corporate restructuring on matters including debt and business restructuring, creditors’ rights, distressed asset transactions and distressed trading.

Andrew Advises

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Over the course of his career, Andrew has represented debtors, secured lenders, unsecured lenders, asset purchasers, asset sellers, equity holders and has been in-house counsel at JP Morgan Chase. During the last major economic crisis, he clerked for the Hon. James M. Peck in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Experience Highlights

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Prior to joining gunnercooke, Andrew was a Member of Rosenberg & Estis and a Partner at Mintz & Gold LLP, where he headed the firm’s Bankruptcy and Restructuring practice. Prior to that, he worked in the Business Reorganization and Restructuring departments of two major law firms and ran his own successful practice.

Andrew is a graduate of St. John’s University School of Law, where he was an editor of the American Bankruptcy Institute Law Journal. Andrew regularly appears in bankruptcy courts throughout the country and has completed the American Bankruptcy Institute/St. John’s University School of Law Bankruptcy Mediation Training program.

Career History

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Previous Law Firms

  • Rosenberg & Estis, P.C.
  • Mintz & Gold LLP
  • Gottesman Law, PLLC
  • In-house counsel at JP Morgan Chase
  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Education:

  • St. John’s University School of Law (J.D.)
  • Ithaca College (B.A.)

Bar Admission

  • New York State, 1999
  • Southern District of New York, 1999
  • Eastern District of New York, 2016