Ariel Weissberg

Ariel Weissberg is the managing partner and founder of Weissberg and Associates, Ltd. in Chicago and concentrates his practice in the areas of business and commercial litigation, transactional matters and all aspects of insolvency and financial distress, including bankruptcy, loan workouts and foreclosures. He founded the firm in July 1984 and has built a clientele comprised of small to medium-sized to publicly traded businesses, as well as individuals. Mr. Weissberg specializes in complex business and financial planning, especially relating to credit facilities and crisis-management, as well as high-risk litigation. He also is an expert witness in legal malpractice cases involving claims emanating from real estate and bankruptcy-related matters. Mr. Weissberg serves as general counsel in senior management to a number of businesses, including well-established businesses engaged in real estate finance and development. His practice is concentrated in real estate matters, particularly real estate litigation and transactional work, with an emphasis in financially distressed real estate and insolvency. A trial lawyer, Mr. Weissberg has litigated in state, federal and bankruptcy courts in Illinois relating to legal malpractice; industrial espionage and patent infringement; alter-ego, piercing-the-corporate-veil and fraudulent-conveyance litigation; bankruptcy discharge and dischargeability litigation; residential, commercial and industrial foreclosures; real estate reorganizations and hospitality reorganizations; real estate mortgage fraud actions; landlords matters relating to residential and commercial forcible entry and detainer actions and other lease disputes; breaches of real estate contract actions; mechanics’ lien foreclosure actions; residential and commercial lease disputes, including evictions; and representing creditors and debtors in post-judgment remedies. In addition to practicing in Illinois, he has litigated in federal courts and bankruptcy courts in Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Delaware, Florida and Missouri, and he is currently a member of the Chicago Bar Association, Federal Bar Association and Decalogue Society. Mr. Weissberg received his B.S. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1976 and his J.D. in 1979 from St. Louis University, where he was the co-managing editor of the St. Louis University Law Journal and received from the American Bar Association a Silver Gavel Award for his legal reporting on KSD Radio on the trial of Benjamin Goins, a prominent St. Louis political figure.