Adrienne Woods

Adrienne Woods is a Partner of Weinberg Zareh Malkin Price LLP.  She leads the firm’s Restructuring and Creditors’ Rights Practice where she provides innovative and strategic advice to assist clients in meeting their business and personal goals.

Adrienne provides debtors and creditors – both individuals and businesses – with full-service bankruptcy counsel.  With more than 20 years of bankruptcy experience, Adrienne has represented individuals and businesses under chapters 7, 11, and 13 of the Bankruptcy Code.  Adrienne’s experience extends to all aspects of bankruptcy practice, whether transactional or litigation, including assisting creditors in pursuing claims against bankruptcy estates, advising on the purchase and sale of distressed assets, defending and prosecuting avoidance actions, defending and prosecuting parties’ rights under executory contracts and leases, advising parties on claims trading and representing parties on appeal.  Adrienne’s practice is industry agnostic, having represented debtors and creditors in bankruptcy cases involving homeless shelters, restaurants and bars, oil and gas, airlines, fitness centers, entertainment, consumer goods and retail, alternative energy, health supplements, casinos, real estate, and health care.

Adrienne is an active member of several professional organizations, including the New York City Bar Association where she served on the Social Events and Networking Committee.  Adrienne also serves as a faculty member of TRT CLE where she lectures on bankruptcy law matters.

Prior to joining WZMP, Adrienne began her legal career as a law clerk to the Hon. Alan L. Gropper, former United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of New York.  After completing her clerkship Adrienne worked at two nationally ranked law firms where she focused on creditors’ rights and later on complex financial restructurings.  In 2013, Adrienne established the Law Offices of Adrienne Woods, P.C. to provide white glove service to individual and small business debtors and creditors.  Earlier in her career, Adrienne was also a Bankruptcy Legal Analyst with Bloomberg Law.

In addition to her robust individual practice, Adrienne’s representative matters include:

• Counsel to debtor in Acorn Real Property Acquisition, Inc. (Bankr. E.D.N.Y.)
• Counsel to Arche USA, Inc. and various subsidiaries in bankruptcies and winding down United States operations (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.)
• Counsel to debtor Armada New York LLC (Bankr. E.D.N.Y.)
• Counsel to debtor CSLT Enterprises LLC (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.)
• Counsel to debtor Dueto of Second Avenue, Inc. (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.)
• Counsel to creditor En Canton LLC in Rite Aid Corporation (Bankr. D.N.J.)
• Counsel to creditor Holliswood 130 LLC in Common Living, Inc. (Bankr. D.Del.)
• Counsel to creditor Holliswood2Ave, LLC in Rise Development Partners LLC (Bankr. E.D.N.Y.)
• Counsel to debtors in Sweet J&R Group, et al. (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.)
• Counsel to debtor Truline Construction Services, Inc. (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.)
• Counsel to debtor 53045 Shoes, Inc. (Bankr. D.Del.)
• Counsel to debtor in Adirondacks Protection Services, LLC (Bankr. E.D.N.Y.)
• Counsel to debtor in Alta Cucina 2, LLC (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.)
• Counsel to BayFirst National Bank in various bankruptcy and state law foreclosure cases (various New York State and Federal Courts)
• Counsel to creditor Bidvest Noonan in Cineworld Group PLC, et al. (Bankr. S.D.Tex.)
• Counsel to creditor FCS Automotive International Inc. in IEH Auto Parts Holding, LLC (Bankr. S.D.Tex.)
• Counsel to avoidance action defendant in Sears Holding Corporation (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.)
• Counsel to creditor seeking critical vendor status in GNC Holdings, Inc. (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.)
• Counsel to individual creditor with severance claim in Centric Brands Inc., et al. (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.)
• Counsel to purchaser of asset in JLF 114 Liberty, LLC (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.)
• Counsel to related business debtors in Park Overlook LLC (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.) and In re Dawn Hotel LLC (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.)
• Counsel to creditor JohnVince Foods, a Canadian Corporation seeking critical vendor status in Fairway Group Holdings Corp., et al. (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.)
• Counsel to purchaser of asset in 477 West 142nd Street Housing Dev. Fund Corp. (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.)
• Counsel to creditor of debtor’s principal in Alexander M. Waldman Diamond Co., Inc. (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.)
• Counsel to creditor seeking allowance of late-filed claim in Haimil Realty Corp. (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.)
• Counsel to avoidance action defendants in Bernard L. Madoff (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.)
• Counsel to avoidance action defendant in Grubb & Ellis Company, et al. (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.)