Daniel Zinman | Kriss & Feuerstein LLP

Overview Professional Experience Professional Memberships Clerkship Publications Speaking Engagements

Overview

Daniel Zinman is a Counsel in K&F’s Litigation Group and focuses his practice primarily on the firm’s bankruptcy and litigation matters. Dan represents debtors, creditor’s committees, bond holders, secured creditors, trustees, brokers, and potential purchasers of property in a variety of bankruptcy cases and complex litigation matters.

Dan has represented high profile clients including Borders Bookstores (debtor), Adelphia Communications Corp. (creditors committee), WorldCom (bondholders), Enron Corp. (creditor/defendant; asset purchaser), Bank of New England (bondholder), and Lehr Construction (Ch. 11 Trustee).

Dan frequently lectures on various topics related to Bankruptcy and has presented continuing legal education course for the New York State Bar Association, Real Property Section. Dan has also lectured at St. John’s School of Law on several occasions.
Prior to joining K&F, Dan practiced litigation and bankruptcy law for top tier law firms in New York City including Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP, Andrews & Kurth LLP, and Thacher Proffitt & Wood, LLP.

Professional Experience

Law Office of David P. Shapiro, Counsel
Golenboch Eiseman Assor Bell & Peskoe LLP, Attorney
Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP, Special Counsel
Andrews & Kurth LLP, Associate
Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP, Associate
Law Clerk, Hon. Jeremiah Berk, United States Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York”

Professional Memberships

New York State Bar Association, Real Property Section, Co-Chair of Workouts and Bankruptcy Committee

Clerkship

Hon. Jeremiah E. Berk, United States Bankruptcy Judge, Bankr. S.D.N.Y.

Publications

Marc D. Rosenberg and Daniel N. Zinman, “Absent Sublease Recognition Agreement, the Rejection of a Prime Lease in a Bankruptcy Case Leaves a Sublessee Largely Out in the Cold,” 44 N.Y. Real Prop. L.J. 12 (Summer 2016).
Daniel N. Zinman and Jeffrey R. Gleit, “Maximizing Value: Borders Intellectual Property Sale Points the Way Forward,” Turnaround & Workouts (Feb. 2013).
Daniel N. Zinman, “Is Diamond Forever? The Aftermath of Resolution Trust Corporation v. Diamond,” 23 N.Y. Real Prop. L.J. 136 (1995).
Daniel N. Zinman, “Diamond is the RTC’s Best Friend: Federal Preemption and the Balance of the Term of Rent Regulated Leases Under RTC v. Diamond”, 22 Ford. Urb. L.J. 1295 (1995).

Speaking Engagements

Bankruptcy Sales of Real Estate, New York State Bar Association, Real Property Law Section, Summer Meeting 2022
Frequent presenter on topics related to bankruptcy law, New York State Bar Association, Real Property Section
Presenter, topics related to bankruptcy law, St. John’s School of Law

Education

Fordham University School of Law, J.D.

Notes and Articles Editor, Fordham Urban Law Journal

Brandeis University, B.A.

Admissions

State of New York
State of New Jersey
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit