Fred B. Ringel

Fred B. Ringel is the co-chair of Robinson Brog Leinwand Greene Genovese & Gluck, P.C.’s BusinessFinance and Restructuring Department in New York and has more than 35 years of experience represent-ing virtually all constituencies in complex chapter 11 cases throughout the U.S. He also has trial experience litigating various bankruptcy issues. Mr. Ringel recently completed a three-day bench trial lead-ing to the successful resolution of a client’s multi-million dollar mortgage claim where the mortgagee claimed that the operative documents were forged. Recently, he completed a 10-day trial leading to the successful confirmation of three chapter 11 plans where title to several apartment buildings was contest-ed by the former owners, who alleged that several of the operative documents, including the deeds, were forged and that the properties were subject to a constructive trust. He also confirmed the plan in WestEnd Financial Advisors LLC, a difficult and complex chapter 11 case of 18 affiliated hedge funds that were involved a Ponzi scheme, and Sonix Medical Resources Inc., a group of diagnostic imaging centers in the New York/New Jersey Metropolitan area. Mr. Ringel has experience counseling secured lenders as acquirers in chapter 11 and 7 cases and has experience representing landlords in many of the large national retail chapter 11 cases in the last three decades. He represented more than 35 shopping center owners in the Kmart Corp. chapter 11 bankruptcy in Chicago and recently represented several bidders acquiring leases from A & P in its second chapter 11 case. He has also represented landlords in dozens of other national retail cases, such as Circuit City, Deb Shops, Linens n’ Things, Radio Shack, Brookstone and Coldwater Creek. He has also defended adversary proceedings seeking to recover preferences and fraudulent conveyances, and has experience representing investors in “Ponzi” scheme cases who have been sued by trustees seeking to “claw back” funds paid to them. Mr. Ringel received his B.A. from theState University of New York at Buffalo and his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School.