Jeffrey R. Waxman

Bio

Jeffrey R. Waxman is a partner with Morris James LLP in Wilmington, Del., and co-chair of the firm’s Small Businesses and Start-Ups Group, which provides a full range of legal services to assist small business owners to organize and transition their ideas to full-fledged businesses. The practice focuses on addressing issues that are of particular concern to entrepreneurs, including initial corporate governance, employment, financing, tax issues and liquidity. Mr. Waxman represents debtors, official committees of unsecured creditors, official committees of equity holders, secured creditors, plan administrators, purchasers of assets, and a wide variety of creditor constituencies and interested parties in chapter 11 cases. He also represents chapter 7 trustees and plaintiffs and defendants in bankruptcy-related preference and fraudulent transfer litigation. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Waxman clerked for Hon. Mary F. Walrath of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, and for Hon. Michael J. Kaplan of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of New York. He is admitted to practice in Delaware and Pennsylvania, and before the U.S. District Courts for the District of Delaware and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Waxman has been listed as a “Top Lawyer” in Delaware Today for 2015, received ABI’s Medal of Excellence in Bankruptcy, and is a member of the Order of the Barristers. He also is a member of the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section, ABI (for which he serves on its Southeast Bankruptcy Workshop advisory board), the Delaware Bankruptcy American Inn of Court and the Delaware State Bar Association’s Bankruptcy Section (for which he served as past chair). Mr. Waxman received his B.A. from Temple University in 1995 and his J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1998.