Howard Karasik

Bio

Mr. Karasik, General Counsel for Berkshire Capital Group, is a member of the New York State Bar, District of Columbia Bar, the Federal Bar and an honors graduate of Harvard Law School. Mr. Karasik has represented innumerable debtors, creditors committees, and individual creditors in debt /creditor and bankruptcy matters. Because many of his clients have been involved in turn-around situations Mr. Karasik has frequently been called upon to lend his managerial skills to facilitate their reorganization. Mr. Karasik has concentrated in insolvency, bankruptcy and real estate matters for several decades. He is a past member of the Board of Governors of the Bankruptcy Bar Association and a member of the Bankruptcy Referral panel of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He is also on the Bankruptcy Committee of the Bar Association of the State of New York. He is a frequent lecturer on insolvency matters before credit and bar association groups such as Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the New York County Lawyers Bar Association, the New York City Institute of Credit, and the Bankruptcy Bar Association. He has appeared in Bankruptcy Courts in such diverse jurisdictions as New York, Iowa and Texas, and Appellate Courts such as the New York State Court of Appeals, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States of America.