Marc L. Hamroff

Marc L. Hamroff joined the firm in 1983 and became a name partner in 1989.  Since January 2024 he serves as the firm’s Chairman responsible for the firm’s long-term vison and strategy, firm initiatives, his creditors rights and secured lending practice and client service. In December 2023 he completed a 25-year term as the firm’s Managing Partner responsible for the day-to-day management of the firm.

Mr. Hamroff Chairs the firm’s Financial Services Practice which includes the Bankruptcy, Equipment Leasing, Secured Lending, Distressed Assets and Creditors’ Rights Groups. He provides special concentration in litigation, workout and bankruptcy matters nationwide. The firm has represented official and unofficial groups and committees of lessors and lenders in complex workouts both in and out of Chapter 11 cases. By example, Mr. Hamroff represented a multi-national asset based lender in the successful equity participation following a structured bid to acquire a biotechnology company in a highly contested Delaware Chapter 11 case and has headed up the restructure, turnaround and bankruptcy exit strategy for various commercial real estate, healthcare and mezzanine structured workouts including DIP lending, cash collateral structures and asset sales of assisted living facilities, nursing homes and regional hospitals.

In his capacity as head of the Financial Services Group, he has spearheaded the representation of secured lenders, banks and lessors in a wide range of transactions. These include the closing of mezzanine and preferred equity commercial real estate structures, asset based and healthcare lending transactions, the formation of a captive finance companies, the creation of the core loan and finance documentation packages, the purchase and sale of loan and lease portfolios including the entire commercial finance portfolio of a wholly owned subsidiary of a public company, and preparation of funding and dealer finance transactions.

Mr. Hamroff led the team in representing lenders, purchasers and operators in both in-court and out-of-court franchise and QSR workouts, including confirming the Plan in the Chapter 11 cases of Dial-A-Mattress and 1 800 Mattress.com which provided for the successful sale of the companies’ assets to Sleepys pursuant to Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code.

In one of the first Chapter 11 cases ever filed in New York by a timeshare resort, Mr. Hamroff successfully represented the mortgage lender in the widely publicized Chapter 11 case of In re Gurneys Inn Resort & Spa, Ltd, 215 B.R. 659 (Bankr. E.D.N.Y. 1997).

Mr. Hamroff works closely with the firm’s Litigation Group and actively handles a wide variety of commercial litigation cases including injunction and attachment proceedings, construction litigation, business divorce/separation cases and restrictive covenant disputes.

Mr. Hamroff regularly provides educational and strategic seminars on a multitude of issues affecting the leasing and secured lending community. He publishes the firm’s Financial Services Alert Newsletter, and is a regular contributor to the firm’s Secured Financing blog.

For 15 years Mr. Hamroff served as a special professor of law at Hofstra University School of Law where he has been teaching Secured Transactions: UCC Article 9 and related matters.

Education & Admissions

Hofstra University School of Law, J.D. 1983
University of Florida, B.S. 1980 (Economics)

In May 2016, Mr. Hamroff delivered the commencement address to Hofstra Law School and received the degree, Doctor of Laws, honoris causa.

Mr. Hamroff is admitted to practice in New York.

Affiliations

Mr. Hamroff was a member of the Board of Directors of the American Heart Association-Long Island Division where he served as its Chairman (2014-2016) and Vice-Chair (2012-2014) and, in part as a result of his efforts for American Heart, was appointed for the term (2013-2015) by the NY State Senate to the Tobacco Use Prevention & Control Advisory Board. For the term 2016-2018 he was elected to the Northeast Regional Board of the Founders Affiliate- American Heart Association – the regional board governing 18 local boards. He is also a past board member of the Long Island Council on Alcoholism & Drug Dependence.

Recognitions

2023-Long Island Business Influencer in Law, Long Island Business News
2022-Inductee-Hofstra University School of Law Inaugural Class Hall of Fame
2022-Recipient-Equipment Leasing & Finance Association (ELFA) Edward A. Groobert Award for Legal Excellence
2019-2025-New York Super Lawyers®
2016-Leadership Excellence Award for Corporate Citizenship, Long Island Business News 
2015-ALM Top-Rated LI Lawyer, Annual Legal Leaders Guide
2010-Honoree-American Heart Association Development Achievement Award
2009-Recipient-Top 50 Award, Long Island Business News
2006-Equipment Leasing & Finance Association (ELFA) Distinguished Service Award

 

Marc L. Hamroff Presents Commencement Speech To Hofstra Law School Graduates- May 16, 2016