Yann Geron, Esq.

Yann Geron is the managing member of Geron Legal Advisors in New York and concentrates his practice on bankruptcy and restructuring with a focus on trusteeships, wind-downs, bankruptcy litigations and fiduciary representations. Admitted to practice law since 1988, since 1993 he has served continually and in good standing as a member of the Federal Panel of Bankruptcy Trustees for the Southern District of New York (Manhattan). Mr. Geron is also a Federal Chapter 11 Subchapter V Panel Trustee for Region 2 (which encompasses New York City and adjacent areas) and a chapter 11 trustee in numerous cases in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. He has served as trustee of numerous large chapter 11 and chapter 7 estates, and has represented other panel and nonpanel bankruptcy trustees in New York and other jurisdictions. Mr. Geron serves as attorney for private clients in bankruptcy matters, including debtors, creditors and defendants. He has significant experience in complex wind-downs and liquidations and in the investigation and recovery of estate claims through litigation (and, when appropriate, mediation), including claims against prior management, insiders, creditors and third parties. Mr. Geron also serves as a court-approved mediator in the bankruptcy courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. While in law school, Mr. Geron interned for a bankruptcy judge in the Southern District of New York and at a law firm. After graduating law school, he started out at Salomon Green & Ostrow, P.C., then in 1992, he decided to start his own law practice, Geron & Associates, which grew until 2005, when he merged his firm with Fox Rothchild LLC to serve as the first partner in Fox’s New York office in charge of growing that office. In addition to continuing his active law practice, Mr. Geron served as the office managing partner of Fox’s New York office for several years and was then elected as an at-large member of the firm’s national executive management committee for several years. Under his leadership, Fox’s New York office grew to more than 60 lawyers by the time of his departure from the firm. In 2015, Mr. Geron decided to return to his roots in boutique bankruptcy and insolvency law, first by joining a small corporate law firm and then, in 2021, forming Geron Legal Advisors LLC as a high-end boutique law firm focusing on corporate bankruptcies and bankruptcy related litigations, corporate dissolutions, and fiduciary representations in bankruptcy and insolvency matters. He received his J.D. in 1988 from Hofstra University School of Law.