Mr. Eckstein is Chairman of Kramer Levin’s 35-attorney Corporate Restructuring and Bankruptcy Department and has played a prominent role in many of the largest and most complex chapter 11 reorganization cases and out of court workouts over the past 28 years.

Mr. Eckstein's representations include the Adelphia/FrontierVision Bondholders, Owens Corning Bank Group, the Dow Corning Claimants Committee and the official creditor committees for Leap Wireless, Big V Supermarkets, SGL Carbon Corp., Cityscape Financial, Olympia & York, Integrated Resources, SLM International, Financial News Network, PSNH, Eastern Airlines and Texaco. Mr. Eckstein also represented the debtors in the bankruptcy of Malden Mills, MicroWarehouse, Berry-Hill Galleries, Elite Model Management, Cross Media and The Wiz and has represented bondholders, bank groups, acquirors and other major creditors in Calpine, Northwest Airlines, Refco, PTS, Enron, Warnaco, NTL, Twin Lab, Amerco, Mediq, PacCoin, Big City Radio, Jitney Jungle, LTV, New Valley, Herman’s Sporting Goods, Tucson Electric and Farley Industries. He has led his firm’s representation of the Examiner in Bruno’s Inc. and the Independent Restructuring Advisor in Coram Healthcare. He has also represented the Trustee in Island Mortgage and in Sharp International.

Mr. Eckstein regularly represents a wide range of lending and other financial institutions and distressed investors in chapter 11 cases, workouts and out of court restructurings. These institutions include JP Morgan Chase, CSFB, BNP-Paribas, Goldman Sachs, Alliance Capital, Barclays, Elliott Associates, Angelo Gordon, Harbinger, Farallon and others.

Mr. Eckstein has received many honors, including being recognized as one of The Best Lawyers in America from 2004-2008, being listed in Chambers USA, Leading Lawyers for Business, 2003-2008, and being designated a New York Super Lawyer from 2006 to the present.

Mr. Eckstein has served as a member of the Committee on Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and is a member of the Section on Corporation, Banking and Business Law of the American Bar Association.

J.D., New York University School of Law, 1979

• Research Editor, Journal of International Law and Politics, 1978-1979

B.A., cum laude, University of Pennsylvania, 1976

John J. Galgay, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 1978 - 1979

New York, 1980

U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 1980
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, 1980

Awards, Commendations

• Included in Chambers USA, Leading Lawyers For Business 2003-2008
• Included in The Best Lawyers in America, 2004-2008
• Named by Turnarounds & Workouts as one of the top ten “Outstanding Bankruptcy Lawyers 2000"