Steven R. Wirth

Steven R. Wirth is a partner with Akerman LLP in Tampa, Fla. He is a commercial litigator who focuses a large percentage of his practice on bankruptcy matters representing debtors, creditors, examiners, trustees, corporate monitors, committees, secured and unsecured creditors’ groups/individuals, state and federal court receivers, distressed investors and asset-buyers, and parties to bankruptcy-related litigation. Mr. Wirth has participated in many of the largest bankruptcy cases in the U.S., includingWorldCom, Enron Corp., Global Crossing Limited, Refco, Inc., Lehman Brothers, Bernard Madoff Investment Securities, Lyondell Chemical Co. and Winn Dixie Stores, Inc. He is admitted U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the U.S. District Courts for the Middle, Northern and SouthernDistricts of Florida, the District of New Jersey, and the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York.Mr. Wirth is a member of the Tampa Bay Bankruptcy Bar Association’s board of directors, ABI, theAmerican Inns of Court, Ferguson-White Inn, the Florida Bar Association’s Business Law Section, theNew York City Bar Association and the Tampa Chapter of the Turnaround Underground, of which he isa founding member. He clerked for Chief Judge George L. Proctor of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for theMiddle District of Florida. Mr. Wirth received his B.A. in 1995 from Ursinus College and his J.D. fromSt. John’s University School of Law in 1998, where he was on the dean’s list, was a senior member of the ABI Law Review, and was a member of the senior board of the St. John’s Moot Court Honor Society.