Ilan D. Scharf

Ilan Scharf, resident in the firm’s New York office, specializes in financial restructuring and bankruptcy litigation with a particular focus on representing creditors’ committees of religious institutions and nonprofit entities. His practice focuses on representing tort claimant and creditors’ committees in chapter 11 cases. Ilan has also represented debtors, equity holders, asset purchasers, trade creditors, chapter 11 trustees, and other parties in business reorganizations and related litigation. He has appeared before bankruptcy courts across the United States, including New York, Delaware, New Jersey, New Mexico, California, Missouri, Montana, Texas and Pennsylvania. In 2012, Ilan was named a Rising Star by Super Lawyers magazine and has been selected as a Super Lawyer every year since. Prior to joining PSZJ in 2003, Ilan was a law clerk to the Honorable Robert E. Gerber in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York and was an associate at a multinational law firm. He received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Yeshiva University.