OFFIT KURMAN PC - Key Persons
Albena Petrakov is a principal in the firm's Creditors Rights, Reorganization and Bankruptcy Practice Group. Albena has extensive experience representing clients in restructuring, bankruptcy and commercial matters in both civil and common law jurisdictions. She has represented secured and unsecured lenders, landlords, suppliers, trustees and debtors in Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 bankruptcy cases in various industries including financial services, retail, hospitality, aircraft, manufacturing, energy and technology, to name only a few.
She has counseled creditors on maximizing their return on secured and unsecured claims, including protecting and realizing collateral, negotiating critical vendor agreements, acquiring assets from a bankruptcy estate, reducing the risk of lender liability claims, foreclosures and D&O insurance.
Albena is experienced in prosecuting and defending actions to avoid and recover fraudulent conveyances and preferential transfers, actions to deny a debtor a discharge, successor liability actions, contract dispute actions, and breach of fiduciary duties actions.
As a member of the firm's International Practice Group, Albena helps international clients pursuing foreign direct investment in the U.S., and U.S. clients expanding their operations and distribution into new markets.
Education
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (J.D., cum laude)
Sofia University (J.D.)
Alexander Mirkin is an attorney in the firm's Commercial Litigation Practice Group. Alex helps clients solve their most complex and challenging legal problems.
Alex represents domestic and international institutions, corporations, and executives in federal and state courts and in mediation and arbitration proceedings throughout the country. He also advises clients when disputes first arise on paths to resolution that avoid the burdens of formal proceedings. Alex has led clients through disputes with contractual counterparties, business partners, and regulators. Clients have sought his assistance with cases involving antitrust claims, fraud and other business wrongs, cross-border disputes, class action defense, professional malpractice, and construction defects.
Alex also counsels clients on antitrust issues. He has helped clients develop and maintain their distribution agreements, minimum price programs, and employee compliance policies. Additionally, he has guided clients through the merger control process, drawing on his early career experience at the Federal Trade Commission.
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- Principal, Practice Group Leader - Construction Law
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- Registered Nurse and Co - Founder of Senior Living Consultants of New York
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- Principal, Practice Group Leader - Commercial Litigation ( North )
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- Principal, Practice Group Leader - Estates and Trusts ( North )
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- Principal, Practice Group Leader - Labor and Employment
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- Assistant General Counsel
- Principal
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- Principal, Practice Group Leader - Creditors' Rights, Reorganization and Bankruptcy
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- Principal, Chair of Healthcare Practice Group
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- Principal, Practice Group Leader - Mergers and Acquisitions
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- Assistant General Counsel
- Principal
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- Principal and Co - Chair of the DEI Committee
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- Principal, Practice Group Leader - Real Estate Law and Transactions
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- Principal, Practice Group Leader - Distressed Real Estate and FinTech
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- Director of Procurement, Facilities and Vendor Management
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- Principal, Chair of Title IX and Education Practice Group
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- Principal, Founder of Title IX / Education Practice Group
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- Principal, Practice Group Leader - Intellectual Property
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- Principal, Practice Group Leader - Family Law ( Central )
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- Principal, Practice Group Leader - Estates and Trusts ( South )
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- Principal, Practice Group Leader - Mass Toxic Torts
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- Principal, Practice Group Leader - Family Law ( North )
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- Principal, Practice Group Leader - Tax Law
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- Principal, Department Chair
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- Principal, Executive Advisor - Family Law
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- Principal, Practice Group Leader - Business Law and Transactions
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- Principal, Department Chair
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- Principal, Department Chair