Yann Geron

Mr. Geron is an experienced and well-regarded attorney concentrating his practice on bankruptcy and restructuring with a focus on trusteeships, wind-downs, bankruptcy litigations, and fiduciary representations. Mr. Geron was admitted to the practice of law in 1988. Since 1993, Mr. Geron 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.

Mr. Geron has served as trustee of numerous large chapter 11 and chapter 7 estates, including, Repapers Enterprises (SDNY chapter 7 trustee, recycling), Prime Capital Ventures LLC (NDNY Chapter 11 trustee, finance) Mercury Capital Advisors LLC (SDNY chapter 7, investment banking), All In Jets LLC (SDNY Sub V chapter 11 trustee and post-confirmation trustee, aviation), David Ghatanfar (SDNY Sub V chapter 11 trustee and chapter 7 trustee, individual), Eight-115 Associates, LLC (SDNY chapter 7 trustee, real estate), Robert Francis Xavier Sillerman (SDNY chapter 11 and chapter 7 trustee, individual), The Northwest Company LLC (SDNY chapter 7 trustee, national licensee and wholesale), Jar 259 Food Corp. (EDNY Sub V chapter 11 trustee and chapter 7 trustee, food retail and distribution), Thelen LLP (SDNY chapter 7 trustee, national law firm), Pali Capital, Inc. and related case (SDNY chapter 7 trustee, investment banking), Sun Property Consultants, Inc. (EDNY chapter 11 and chapter 7 trustee, single real estate holding company), Chelsea Craft Brewing Company, LLC (SDNY chapter 11 trustee and chapter 7 trustee, restaurant and brewery), Louis Frey Company, Inc. (SDNY chapter 7 trustee, national reprographics), Third Toro LLP (SDNY chapter 7, trustee food production), Dallek, Inc. (SDNY chapter 11 trustee, furniture retailer), and scores of other companies. Mr. Geron has also represented other panel and non-panel 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. In 1988, he graduated from Hofstra University School of Law and became associated with Salomon Green & Ostrow, P.C., a bankruptcy boutique law firm in New York City. In 1992, Mr. Geron decided to start his own law practice, Geron & Associates, which grew significantly until 2005, when Mr. Geron merged his firm with Fox Rothchild LLC, a national full service law firm, to serve as the first partner in Fox’s New York office with a 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 he was then elected as an at- large member of the firm’s national executive management committee for several years. Under

Mr. Geron’s leadership, Fox’s New York office grew to more than sixty 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 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.