Michael D. Lessne, CPA

Michael D. Lessne, CPA, is a commercial litigator and bankruptcy and creditors’ rights and restructuring attorney. In 2022, Michael started his own firm, Lessne Law, after more than 13 years of practice at two AMLAW 200 firms. Michael provides counsel to businesses and individuals in a broad array of restructuring and insolvency matters (including to debtors, lenders and other creditors, creditors’ committees, fiduciaries and purchasers of assets), in complex business and consumer bankruptcy matters, state court assignments and out-of-court workouts, and in state and federal court proceedings involving business disputes and complex litigation. Michael has experience representing bankruptcy trustees and other parties in a variety of matters, including in health care cases, cases involving Ponzi schemes and fraud, retail cases, avoidance actions (including fraudulent-transfer and preference proceedings), and dischargeability matters (including with respect to taxes). He also has experience in the areas of accounting and individual and corporate taxation, having interned at a prominent forensic accounting firm for a bankruptcy trustee, at a national tax firm and at an international accounting firm. Mr. Lessne is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and the U.S. DistrictCourts for the Southern, Middle and Northern Districts of Florida. Michael has received numerous accolades, including being recognized in Chambers USA in Bankruptcy/Restructuring– South Florida, and he is very involved in his community in Fort Lauderdale, where he lives with his wife Ashley and daughter Mae. Michael received his B.S. and M.Acc. in accounting from the University of Florida in 2006 and his J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law in 2009.