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Ferve Ozturk focuses her practice in the areas of bankruptcy, creditors’ rights, financial restructuring and liquidations. She has significant experience with several complex liquidations and restructurings, including:

• Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (BLMIS): an attorney on the BakerHostetler team serving as court-appointed counsel representing Irving H. Picard, SIPA Trustee for the liquidation of BLMIS.
• In re Delphi Corp.: representation of government-sector creditor in reorganization proceedings of automotive parts manufacturer.
• In re Eastman Kodak Co.: representation of creditor in reorganization proceedings of film and camera producer.
• In re Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP: representation of retired partners’ group in liquidation proceeding of global law firm.
• Representation of receiver of Michael Kenwood Capital Management, LLC, an international investment advisor located in Stamford, Connecticut, and related offshore hedge funds.

Prior to joining BakerHostetler, Ferve clerked for the Honorable Martin Glenn of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. In this role, Ferve helped administer high-profile retail-sector, tech-sector and auto-sector chapter 11 cases involving debtor-in-possession lenders, secured creditors, unsecured creditor and bondholder committees and administrative agents. Ferve also served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Thomas J. McAvoy of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York while in law school.

Memberships

• American Bankruptcy Institute
  • ABI Committee on Bankruptcy Litigation: vice-newsletter editor
  • ABI Volo Project, Circuit Court Opinion First Responder: author
  • ABI Young and New Members Committee
• Federal Bar Council
  • 2013 Fall Bar and Bench Retreat: Co-Chair
  • Inn of Court: member
  • First Decade Committee: member and newsletter author
• New York State Bar Association
  • Committee on Women in the Law Annual Meeting Subcommittee: Co-Chair

Pro Bono

• Legal Services NYC’s Bankruptcy Assistance Project
  • Organization providing free bankruptcy petition preparation services to low-income New York residents
• IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program
  • Served in organization while in law school

Ferve is conversational in the Turkish language.

Her publications include:

• “Deciphering Defalcation: Bullock v. BankChampaign NA,” American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, Vol. XXXII, No. 4, 42-43, 104-105 (May 2013)
• “Mandatory Subordination of Claims Arising from Withdrawals from LLCs,” ABI Bankruptcy Litigation Committee Newsletter, Vol. 10, No. 5 (May 2013)
• “Bankruptcy Claims vs. Class Actions: Southern District of New York Finds Class Action Process Superior,” BakerHostetler’s Class Action Lawsuit Defense blog (May 1, 2013)
• “A Plain Language Reading Of Section 106(a)(1),” Law 360 Expert Analysis column (Bankruptcy and White Collar sections) (February 2013)
• “New Risks for CRE Debtor-Tenants: Are Landlords Entitled to Rent Between Petition and Eviction?” American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, Vol. XXXI, No. 9, 20-21 (October 2012)
• “The Importance of Hall v. United States,” Law 360 Expert Analysis column (May 2012)
• “Nantahala: Litigation Tracking Warrants Are Equity, Not Debt,” American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, Vol. XXXI, No. 4 (May 2012)
• “Do Secured Creditors Have a Right to Credit Bid in All Sales of Assets Free and Clear of Liens? RadLAX Gateway Hotel, LLC v. Amalgamated Bank,” (U.S. Docket No. 11-166), 24 Bloomberg BNA Bankruptcy Law Reporter 537 (Apr. 19, 2012); 5 Bloomberg BNA Real Estate Law and Industry Report 331 (May 1, 2012) (updated to include summary of oral argument)
• “A Coming Together for Better or for Worse: In re Somers and Whether ‘Cause’ Exists to Dismiss Joint Bankruptcy Cases Filed by Same-Sex Couples,” ABI Young and New Members Committee Newsletter, Vol. 9, No. 5 (November 2011)
• “Supreme Court Preview: United Student Aid Funds Inc. v. Espinosa” (08-1134), American Bankruptcy Institute Journal at 40-41, 93 (September 2009)