Robert J. Feinstein

Adjunct Professor of Law
Managing Partner, New York office of Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP
Member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, American Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, and the Bar Association of the City of New York
Graduate, Lafayette College
J.D., magna cum laude, Boston University School of Law

Robert J. Feinstein is the Managing Partner of the New York office of Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP, the country’s largest stand-alone law firm specializing in corporate restructurings. Over the course of thirty years in practice, he has had extensive experience representing official creditors' committees, debtors, equity committees, and acquirers, among others, in business reorganizations and related bankruptcy litigation. Mr. Feinstein is a graduate of Lafayette College and received his J.D. magna cum laude from Boston University School of Law. He is an Adjunct Professor in the LL.M. in Bankruptcy Program at St. John's University School of Law, an Associate Editor of the Norton Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice, a Contributing Editor of Norton Bankruptcy Law and Practice 2d, a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, and was a member of the Bar Association of the City of New York Committee on Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization (2008-2011). He has authored numerous articles and frequently lectures on bankruptcy topics for, among others, the American Bankruptcy Institute, the Norton Institutes on Bankruptcy Law, the Turnaround Management Association and the National Association of Credit Managers. He was named a New York Super Lawyer in Bankruptcy and Debtors/Creditors Rights.

Professor Feinstein’s recent engagements include serving as lead counsel to the Ad Hoc Movie Studio Committee in the Blockbuster chapter 11 case, lead counsel to the official creditors’ committees appointed in the chapter 11 cases of Circuit City, Movie Gallery, Freedom Communications, Coach Transportation, Reddy Ice Corporation, Fran Parsons, Inc., Neff Manufacturing, Flying J, Gas City, Palm Harbor Homes and National Envelope Corporation, and conflicts counsel to the official creditors’ committee appointed in the Chrysler LLC chapter 11 case. On the debtor side, he represented boxer Mike Tyson and Penthouse Magazine publisher General Media, Inc., as well as more conventional corporate clients, including Dice, Inc., Hvide Marine Incorporated and Hexcel Corporation, in their chapter 11 reorganization cases. Professor Feinstein teaches the Bankruptcy Litigation Seminar.