Weltman & Moskowitz, LLP
Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights Attorneys
Weltman & Moskowitz, LLP focuses on resolving business and bankruptcy problems for clients throughout New York, New Jersey, and elsewhere.
The law firm represents secured and unsecured creditors (including banks, commercial factors, credit unions, equipment lessors, and landlords) and debtors in workouts and in state and federal courts, including bankruptcy courts. Bankruptcy experience in chapters 11, 7 and 13 includes issues involving stay relief, financing orders, cash-collateral disputes, lien contests, tax matters, section 341 hearings, section 363 asset sales, assumption, assignment and rejection of executory contracts and unexpired leases under section 365, and issues involving plan confirmation. Adversary proceeding experience includes prosecution and defense of preference and avoidance actions, and objections to discharge. When settlement by arbitration, mediation or other out-of-court means is not an option, the firm aggressively litigates business divorces, shareholder and partnership contests, dissolutions, and commercial and contract disputesof all types, including applications for temporary restraining orders and injunctions, actions for fraud, fraudulent conveyances, construction disputes, and the enforcement of mortgages and security interests.
Also represented are technology and business clients in connection with entity formation, operations, governance, regulatory compliance, consulting, shareholder and operating agreements, consignments and UCC securitizations, purchase and sale of assets, protection of intellectual property, ecommerce transactions, Internet and computer law, and other business arrangements.
Weltman & Moskowitz strives to exceed client expectations through proactive crisis management, creativity, dedication, efficiency, and adherence to the highest ethical standards.
Richard Weltman
Richard is a results-oriented business and bankruptcy lawyer. A former journalist, Richard is known as a trusted adviser and tireless negotiator. Practicing law for more than 30 years, Richard resolves complex commercial disputes through litigation, mediation and arbitration. He speaks and presents on creditor rights, electronic discovery, Internet and tech law, digital evidence, and other business law topics. Richard enjoys travel, hiking, political history, and the arts with his wife Gail and their two children.
