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Philip J. Gross

Senior Counsel

New Jersey
T: +1 973.597.6246 F: +1 973.597.6247 pgross@lowenstein.com
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Philip Gross provides creative and practical advice to debtors, creditors’ committees, liquidating trustees, secured and unsecured creditors, and asset purchasers in commercial bankruptcy proceedings. He has extensive experience in bankruptcy hearings and trials around the country.

Philip’s recent high-profile matters include:                   

  • Serving as special counsel to the debtors in the Timber Pharmaceuticals bankruptcy
  • Representing asset purchasers in the Hello Bello/Unconditional Love and Bed Bath & Beyond Chapter 11 bankruptcies
  • Serving as lead debtors’ counsel to Aceto Corporation and Rising Pharmaceuticals in their Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, including complex sale transactions
  • Representing Indorama Ventures as a participant in a joint venture that purchased a $1 billion plant and provided DIP financing in the M&G Chemicals bankruptcy
  • Serving as counsel to a global Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company in the Revlon, Mallinckrodt, Akorn, Athersys, and Rochester Drug bankruptcies

Philip is also active in his community volunteering for his local Bergenfield synagogue’s Communications and Scheduling Committee. He maintains a pro bono practice and recently represented a group of volunteer doctors that advised a nonprofit school on COVID issues. Philip has also assisted individuals filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy relief through the Volunteer Lawyers for Justice Bankruptcy Program.

Prior to joining Lowenstein Sandler in 2012, Philip previously practiced at an AmLaw 100 firm in New York City. He served as the Summer 2006 Milton Pollack Fellow in the Southern District of New York (SDNY), where he worked with the Honorable Loretta A. Preska, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the SDNY, and former Attorney General/SDNY Chief Judge Michael B. Mukasey to draft a report for district court judges on issues and challenges  arising in high-security and terrorism trials: "Guide to High Security & Terrorism Cases." The guide has been extensively cited in publications issued by the Federal Judicial Center, including Robert Timothy Reagan's "National Security Case Studies: Special Case-Management Challenges."

  • Representation of Chapter 11 debtors, including Timber Pharmaceuticals LLC (special counsel); Aceto Corporation and Rising Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Remington Outdoor Company, Inc. (special counsel); B. Lane, Inc., d/b/a Fashion to Figure; Daytop Village, Inc.; Ocean Place Development LLC; Coach America Holdings.
  • Representation of asset purchasers in the Hello Bello/Unconditional Love and Bed Bath & Beyond Chapter 11 bankruptcies.
  • Representation of official creditors’ committees in Chapter 11 bankruptcies of Sur La Table, Inc., Lily Robotics, Frank W. Kerr Company, Horsehead Holding Corp., Universal Cooperatives Inc., Gridway Energy Holdings, KidsPeace Corporation
  • Counsel to Indorama Ventures Holdings LP, a partner in a joint venture that served as the DIP lender and winning bidder of M&G USA Corporation’s integrated PTA-PET plant. Purchase price exceeded $1.125 billion in cash and other capital contributions.
  • Bankruptcy counsel to Corpus Christi Polymers LLC in the M&G USA Corporation Mechanics’ Lien litigation and settlement proceedings resolving over $200 million in asserted mechanics’ liens claims.
  • Counsel to a global Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company in the Revlon, Mallinckrodt, Akorn, Athersys, and Rochester Drug bankruptcies.
  • Counsel to several container terminal operators and railway/transportation carrier in Hanjin Shipping Co., Ltd.’s Chapter 15 proceeding.
  • Counsel to American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the largest union, in Detroit's Chapter 9 bankruptcy.
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Education

  • Fordham University School of Law (J.D. 2008), Fordham Urban Law Journal, Notes & Articles Editor; Milton Pollack Fellow (Summer 2006); U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York

    Yeshiva University (B.A. 2002), Computer Science, summa cum laude

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  • New Jersey
  • New York
  • U.S. Supreme Court

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