Ms. Deborah A. Reperowitz

Deborah A. Reperowitz is a bankruptcy and commercial litigation attorney with McGlinchey Stafford PLLC in New York. She represents clients in all aspects of commercial litigation, business restructuring and bankruptcy matters. Mr. Reperowitz has successfully represented clients in the financial services, insurance, real estate, telecommunications, airline and general manufacturing sectors. She also is listed on the register of mediators maintained by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, and has been selected to serve as a mediator in the bankruptcy case of Dewey & LeBoeuf and a mediator and arbitrator in the Madoff liquidations. Previously, Ms. Reperowitz was senior vice president and chief litigation counsel of CIT Group Inc., a NYSE financial services company. During that time, she established and chaired CIT's litigation and government investigations legal team and managed virtually all of CIT's litigation and government inquiries and investigations. She also was charged with mitigating litigation risk and assisted CIT with its restructure. Subsequently, Ms. Reperowitz served as the general counsel to Fairholme Capital Management, LLC and as secretary to The Fairholme Funds, Inc. She received her B.S. in 1982 from New York University and her J.D. in 1985 from Seton Hall University School of Law, where she was an editor of the Seton Hall Law Review and a member of the Moot Court Board.