Emerging Trends in the US: Bankruptcies, Class Actions, and Mass Consolidations

Deborah Greenspan is a leading advisor on mass claims strategy and resolution. Her practice focuses on class actions, mass claims, dispute resolution, insurance recovery, and mass tort bankruptcy.

She has extensive experience in mass products liability matters, class actions, analysis of damages and future liability exposure, insurance recovery, alternative dispute resolution (“ADR”), claims evaluation and dispute analysis, settlement distribution design and implementation, claims management and risk analysis.

Roy serves as co-chair of the firm’s national class action defense team and as co-chair of Blank Rome’s Pittsburgh office. He is a trusted adviser and experienced, high-stakes litigator who is widely recognized for his trial skills, vigorous advocacy, and relentless pursuit of his clients’ objectives.

He has nearly 30 years of broad experience representing clients faced with alleged class actions, shareholder derivative lawsuits, and other complex commercial litigation producing an impressive track record of favorable results.

Ed is one of the few nationally recognized leaders in both bankruptcy and mass tort law.

He started off his career as a bankruptcy attorney, training under the legendary Harvey R. Miller, at the bankruptcy and litigation powerhouse Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. At Weil Ed earned his stripes working on the bankruptcies of Enron and WorldCom. In 2008, he founded his own law firm which then merged with ASK LLP in 2012. 

Ed is currently co-managing partner of ASK, one of the leading mass tort, sexual abuse and bankruptcy law firms in the country, with client recoveries and settlements totaling more than $500 million.

David Molton is a partner in Brown Rudnick’s Litigation & Arbitration and Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring Practice Groups and is the chair of cross-border, mass tort, and restructuring litigation.

David focuses his practice in complex financial, commercial and mass tort litigation matters in federal, state and bankruptcy courts in the United States, and he represents foreign liquidators, official committees of creditors, unofficial ad hoc committees of creditors and interested parties in financial fraud and mass tort related litigations and bankruptcies in the United States and in foreign jurisdictions.