Aaron A. Wernick

Aaron A. Wernick is a sole practitioner with Wernick Law, PLLC in Boca Raton and specializes primarily in chapter 11 debtor representation. He has successfully confirmed more than 95 percent of his chapter 11 reorganizations. Mr. Wernick is Board Certified in Business Bankruptcy Law and Consumer Bankruptcy Law by the American Board of Certification, and serves on its board of directors. He is licensed to practice in all federal courts in Florida, as well as the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. He also is licensed to practice in California and Wisconsin and is admitted to the federal courts in California. Mr. Wernick is experienced in handling complex restructuring, insolvency and bankruptcy cases. He has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal as well as in local news sources on bankruptcy matters, and he has served on various moderating panels, most recently at the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees on the subject of secured transactions and the UCC. Mr. Wernick is listed in Super Lawyers and has a 10/10 rating on Avvo. After graduating from college, he was on the faculty at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, for a year, having previously studied Mandarin for four years. In law school, he was a teaching assistant, conducting classes for law students visiting from various Asian countries. Mr. Wernick then worked for a private-equity group, specializing in the acquisition of distressed assets, where he discovered his passion for the bankruptcy world. After acting as a plaintiff’s lawyer in a FINRA arbitration, where the brokerage firm filed chapter 11, he was hooked on the chapter 11 process. Mr. Wernick received his undergraduate degree cum laude in 1994 from the University of Pennsylvania and his J.D. in 1999 from the University of Wisconsin Law School.