Adrienne Woods, Esq.

The Law Offices of Adrienne Woods, P.C. was founded in 2013 to provide individuals and businesses with full-service bankruptcy counsel.  We represent businesses and individuals in chapter 7, chapter 11 and chapter 13 of the Bankruptcy Code. We also represent creditors of bankrupt debtors, whether they seek to assert claims against the estate, defend avoidance actions, protect contract and lease rights or enforce obligations, or negotiate lease or contract interests. 

 

We provide innovative and strategic advice to assist clients in meeting their business and personal goals.  The firm’s diverse practice includes representing clients in bankruptcy litigation, transactions including the purchase and sale of distressed assets, restructuring and liquidations under chapters 7, Chapter 11 and Chapter 13 of the Bankruptcy Code, and appeals of bankruptcy court rulings.  The firm also advises clients considering bankruptcy on the potential impact of a filing. 

 

The firm’s founder, Adrienne Woods, has more than 16 years of experience representing both debtors and creditors in bankruptcies and workouts in industries as diverse as homeless shelters, oil and gas, airlines, fitness centers, entertainment, consumer goods and retail, alternative energy, health supplements, casinos, real estate and health care.

 

Adrienne began her legal career as law clerk to the Hon. Alan L. Gropper, former United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of New York.  After completing her clerkship Adrienne worked at two nationally-ranked law firms where she focused on creditors’ rights and representation of a chapter 7 trustee, and later on complex financial restructurings.  When she began the firm in 2013, Adrienne expanded her practice to include individual and business debtor representation.  Earlier in her career, Adrienne was also a Bankruptcy Legal Analyst with Bloomberg Law. 

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In addition to her robust individual bankruptcy practice, Adrienne’s representative matters include: 

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• Counsel to avoidance action defendant in  Sears Holding Corporation (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.) 

• Counsel to creditor seeking critical vendor status in GNC Holdings, Inc. (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.) 

• Counsel to individual creditor with severance claim in Centric Brands Inc., et al. (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.) 

• Counsel to purchaser of asset in JLF 114 Liberty, LLC (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.)  

• Counsel to related business debtors in Park Overlook LLC (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.) and In re Dawn Hotel LLC (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.)  

• Counsel to creditor seeking critical vendor status in Fairway Group Holdings Corp., et al. (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.)   

• Counsel to purchaser of asset in 477 West 142nd Street Housing Dev. Fund Corp. (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.)  

• Counsel to creditor of debtor’s principal in Alexander M. Waldman Diamond Co., Inc. (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.)  

• Counsel to creditor seeking allowance of late-filed claim in Haimil Realty Corp. (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.)

• Counsel to avoidance action defendants in Bernard L. Madoff (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.)  

• Counsel to avoidance action defendant in Grubb & Ellis Company, et al. (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.)