Charles M. Tatelbaum

Charles M. Tatelbaum is an attorney with Tripp Scott in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and chairs its creditors’ rights and bankruptcy practice group. For more than 50 years, he has focused his practice on bankruptcy and creditors’ rights issues, complex business litigation, UCC transactions, lender-liability litigation and other types of secured transactions, as well as domestic and international letters of credit. Mr. Tatelbaum regularly represents secured and unsecured creditors in transactions and insolvency situations, creditors’ committees, business clients in complex business litigation, and provides defense of lender-liability claims, all types of bankruptcy proceedings and product-liability defenses based on warranties. He also represents secured and unsecured creditors in distressed business transactions and litigation, and he has represented clients in chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy proceedings and chapter 15 foreign bankruptcy proceedings. Mr. Tatelbaum is well-versed in dealing with all aspects of domestic and international letters of credit, from the transactional stage through litigation. A founding ABI member, he has served onits Board of Directors and as an editor of the ABI Journal, and he served as chairman of the Task Force on Mass Torts and on the advisory board of the ABI Law Review. 1992-1997. For seven years, Mr. Tatelbaum was an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland School of Law, teaching courses in creditors’ rights and the Uniform Commercial Code, and now serves as an Emeritus member on the Board ofVisitors of the Francis King Carey School of Law at the University of Maryland. For several years, he was hired by the Federal Judicial Center to provide training to bankruptcy judges throughout the country at their annual educational retreats. He also authored a number of the provisions of the bankruptcy law changes that were signed into law in April 2005. Mr. Tatelbaum regularly represents Fortune 150 companies and has been featured as a consultant on “60 Minutes” and “Good Morning America,” as well as on NPR’s “All Things Considered” and “Morning Edition.” Additionally, he is a frequent guest on news<br>radio programs throughout the United States speaking on current developments involving bankruptcy and creditors’ rights. Mr. Tatelbaum received his B.A. in 1963 from the University of Maryland and hisJ.D. in 1966 from the University of Maryland School of Law, where he was a member of the editorial board of the Maryland Law Review and vice president of the Student Bar Association.