Education
Brooklyn Law School
J.D. 1999
University at Albany
B.A. 1995
Bar Admissions
New Jersey
New York
Court Admissions
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Practices
Katina Brountzas
Associate
Katina Brountzas practices in the Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights Group and the Corporate Restructuring Group. Immediately prior to joining SilvermanAcampora, Ms. Brountzas clerked for the Honorable Prudence Carter Beatty for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Early in her career, Ms. Brountzas clerked for Honorable Jeffry H. Gallet and Honorable Richard L. Bohanon in the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York and was an associate at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. Her considerable bankruptcy experience ranges from the simplest chapter 7 liquidations to numerous mega chapter 11 reorganizations and international cases. During her public service and in private practice, Ms. Brountzas has experience in addressing issues involving secured and unsecured creditors, including lenders, landlords, judgment creditors, and trade creditors in corporate reorganizations, restructurings, and litigation, as well as Chapter 11 debtors, creditors’ committees, and Chapter 11 and 7 trustees.
Upon graduating from law school Ms. Brountzas received the Regina Crea Award, awarded by the faculty to the member of the graduating class who rendered the most devoted and disinterested service to Brooklyn Law School during her academic career. She received the Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Fellowship, for the Legal Aid Society, Juvenile Rights Division. The program places fellows in summer internships at leading public interest organizations across the United States. Ms. Brountzas also participated in the Federal Litigation Clinic under the supervision of Senior Counsel, she represented individuals in class actions. Her primary responsibilities included conducting discovery, preparing pleadings, negotiating settlements and appearing in federal court at various conferences in the S.D.N.Y.
