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Mr. Paul Steven Singerman

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Mr. Paul Steven Singerman

Paul S. Singerman is co-chair of Berger Singerman LLP in Miami and leads the firm?s Business Reorganization Team. His practice areas include complex bankruptcy and commercial litigation, representation of fiduciaries in fraud cases, corporate governance, and distressed business mergers and acquisitions. Prior to his legal career, Mr. Singerman was in business for eight years. He has been involved in some of the highest-profile and most significant restructuring matters in Florida for over three decades.Mr. Singerman represented Piper Aircraft Corp. in its extraordinarily successful chapter 11 case filed in 1991. Starting in 2000, he was lead counsel to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in theCHS Electronics case, and post-confirmation, he was lead counsel to the liquidating trustee. Starting in2009, he was lead counsel to the chapter 11 trustee in the $1.3 billion Ponzi scheme case of the Roth-stein, Rosenfeldt & Adler law firm, the only Ponzi scheme case in the U.S. in which un subordinated unsecured creditors received full payment on their claims. In that same year, he commenced the representation of the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the chapter 11 case of Taylor Bean & Whitaker, then the largest nonbank mortgage-originator in the country. That case involved more than $11.5 billion in claims. Currently, he serves as lead counsel to the court-appointed receiver in the case involving the collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium building, which resulted in 98deaths. Mr. Singerman received his B.A. with highest honors from the University of Florida and his J.D.with honors from the University of Florida Frederic G. Levin College of Law, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and Omicron Delta Kappa.