Donna H. Lieberman has more than thirty-five years of experience as a bankruptcy and insolvency attorney and a civil litigator. She has extensive experience representing troubled companies, unsecured creditors, secured creditors, landlords, credit insurers, directors and officers, and asset purchasers, both in chapter 11 cases and in out-of-court proceedings.  She has also represented the trustees of liquidation and litigation trusts that have emerged from confirmed chapter 11 plans, including trusts that have emerged from the bankruptcy cases of retailers, pharmaceutical companies and institutions addressing claims of sexual abuse.  In addition, Ms. Lieberman has served as the litigation trustee of the Miami Metals Litigation Trust (formerly Republic Metals Refining Corporation), and has been counsel to both plaintiffs and defendants in preference, fraudulent transfer and other bankruptcy-related litigations.. Ms. Lieberman has represented clients in transactions and cases covering all nature of assets, in cases such as Brooks Fashions, Maidenform Worldwide, Orion Pictures, Marvel Entertainment, Tender Loving Care Health Care Services, Inc., and Sears, as well as post-confirmation trustees in Rite Aid, Diocese of Rockville Centre, Tops Holdings, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, Endo Pharmaceuticals and Madison Square Boys and Girls Clubs.

By virtue of her experience in representing financially troubled companies and persons and entities dealing with troubled companies, Ms. Lieberman is able to effectively advise parties as to how to structure transactions with a view to protecting their interests and minimizing their risks in the event of a subsequent bankruptcy filing. Moreover, her work as counsel to trustees and her role as a trustee has provided her with considerable experience in evaluating causes of action, as well as creating guidelines for claimants who need to prepare and submit different types of claims, and the trustees who must weigh those claims. Ms. Lieberman began her law practice as a Special Assistant United States Attorney with the United States Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York (Civil Division), with a focused practice in civil litigation in the federal courts. She then continued her service with the Justice Department at the Office of the United States Trustee, where she began to specialize in bankruptcy matters. She joined the bankruptcy group at the law firm of Willkie Farr & Gallagher in 1989 and subsequently Battle Fowler LLP in 1997, and has been of counsel to Halperin Battaglia Benzija, LLP since the Fall of 2000. Ms. Lieberman is also the author of the 1997-2 supplement to the book “Structuring Commercial Real Estate Workouts: Alternatives to Foreclosure,” a publication of Prentice Hall Law & Business.

Ms. Lieberman is a graduate of Brandeis University, and received her law degree from New York Law School. She is a member of the New York State bar, and is admitted to practice before the District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, including the Bankruptcy Courts within those jurisdictions. Ms. Lieberman is a member of the Bar Association of the City of New York and the American Bankruptcy Institute.