Ivan J. Reich has been a shareholder in the Ft. Lauderdale office of GrayRobinson PA since 2008, when he joined the firm after thirteen years at Becker & Poliakoff, where he headed that firm’s bankruptcy practice. He concentrates his practice in the area of bankruptcy and corporate reorganizations, with a strong emphasis and background in commercial litigation. Mr. Reich’s commercial litigation background includes not only bankruptcy issues, but areas of the law including banking, lender liability, commercial landlord-tenant, securities, intellectual property, anti-trust, real estate, asset protection, post and prejudgment remedies and collections, foreclosures, and both state and federal appeals. Mr. Reich recently finished his term as recording secretary of the Commercial Law League of America, the nation’s oldest and largest creditor’s rights organization, and has served on the League’s Board of Governors. He is a past chair of the League’s Bankruptcy and Young Members Sections, its Southern Region, and is currently chair of its National Meetings Committee. Mr. Reich also serves on the League’s National Affairs and Legislative Committees, as well as the Joint Planning and Coordinating Committee with the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges. Recently, Mr. Reich served as counsel to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of Femwell Health Group Inc. (Miami), American Financial Group of Aventura (Miami), Shores of Panama Inc. (Panama City,Florida), Berwick Black Cattle Company (Peoria, Illinois), Tutor Time Learning Systems Inc. (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida), and Conseco Finance Corp. (Chicago), which was part of the then third largest bankruptcy in U.S. history. Mr. Reich has also recently represented the successful buyers in bankruptcy of the assets of publicly traded perfume manufacturer, Tristar Corporation (San Antonio), and the national restaurant chain Le Petit Bistro (Atlanta). He has worked as a staff member on the United States Senate Governmental Affairs Committee for former Vice President Albert Gore, Jr., and on Vice President Gore’s senatorial and 1988 presidential campaigns. A prolific speaker, Mr. Reich has spoken several times at the Commercial Law League of America's annual conventions, including 1998, Chicago Conference on “Chasing the Wind: The Search for the Ever Elusive Assets of the Sophisticated Debtor,” 2000, New York Conference on “The Triadic System: Back to the Basics,” 2001, Los Angeles Conference on “State Exemption Law,” its 2001 Annual Convention on “Fraudulent Conveyances,” 2003, New York Conference, and 2009 Chicago Conference, on “Creditors Committees,” and its 2004 Chicago Conference on “Revised Article 9 of the UCC.” In 2007, Mr. Reich spoke in Chicago at the DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal Symposium on Fiduciary Duties and the Slide Towards Insolvency, and published a paper for the Journal on “Deepening Insolvency: A Viable Cause of Action, A Rehash of Other Causes of Action or a Theory Of Damages.” He has also spoken at the Vendor Compliance Federation (Ft. Lauderdale 2002) conference on charge backs, and has spoken several times before the National Business Institute, and the national Association of Credit Managers on various bankruptcy and creditors rights issues. In 2003, he authored the chapter on bankruptcy in an Austrian publication geared toward German speakers doing business in the United States, and in the fall of 2009, will begin as an adjunct professor of bankruptcy at Nova Southeastern University’s School of Law. Additionally, Mr. Reich is an active member of the community. In 1998, he was recognized for his outstanding contributions to the community and the Chamber of Commerce by the Miramar/Pembroke Chamber of Commerce when he received both their annual Pinnacle and Chairperson’s Awards, and was awarded the Southwest Broward Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Chairperson’s Award again in both 2000 and 2001. In both2000 and 2001, Mr. Reich was honored by the South Florida Business Journal as one of four finalists for its “Up and Comer” attorney of the year. Mr. Reich received both his B.A., cum laude, and his J.D., with honors, from Vanderbilt University. While in law school, Mr. Reich was associate managing editor of the Law Review, on the Moot Court Board, and a member of the Phil Delta Phi Legal Honor Society.