Sichenzia Ross Friedman Ference LLP is pleased to announce that Ralph E. Preite, formerly a partner with Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP since 2006, has joined SRFF to form and grow a bankruptcy and debtors’/creditors’ rights group within the firm.
Mr. Preite has practiced in the bankruptcy, work-out, corporate reorganization, foreclosure and commercial law and litigation fields for over 23 years. He has been involved in national and local cases representing institutional, corporate, and individual clients involving a variety of industries including the financial services, non-profit, real estate, retailing, recycling, food service, healthcare, automotive, education, and sports & entertainment industries. Mr. Preite has represented lenders in chapter 11 cases, commercial litigation and out-of-court restructurings. He has defended and asserted preference and fraudulent conveyance suits on behalf of debtors, creditors and Trustees appointed by the US Trustees Office, a division of the Department of Justice.
Included in Mr. Preite’s victories is a decision upheld on appeal from the US Bankruptcy Court in New York which was reported as a “Decision of Interest” in the New York Law Journal. Mr. Preite has appeared on television as a legal analyst on bankruptcy matters, including on the Law Line television show with the late Honorable Dennis Milton, US Bankruptcy Judge, and on the NBC television show Extra to comment on celebrity bankruptcy issues.
From 1992 to 1995, Mr. Preite served as a law clerk to the Honorable Jerome Feller, US Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of New York. Mr. Preite holds a BA degree from New York University and a Juris Doctor degree from New York Law School, where he was an editor of the International Law Journal.
Mr. Preite is admitted to practice in New York and the US District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, and the District of New Jersey.
