Biography
An accomplished lawyer with four decades of experience, Laurence was previously head of the Real Estate practice as well as a member of the Creditors’ Rights group at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. He is now Of Counsel to V&E;’s Insolvency and Reorganization practice in the firm’s New York office. Laurence has written and lectured widely on real estate, bankruptcy, partnership bankruptcy, executory contracts, and other topics relating to creditors' rights law. He was a Distinguished Visiting Practitioner at the St. John's University School of Law (1996-2002) and a member of the ABA Business Law Section. As a member of the ABA Section on Real Property, Probate and Trust Law, he testified before the National Bankruptcy Review Commission on the subject of partnership bankruptcy, and participated in the revision of various Bankruptcy Code provisions relating to leases of real property.