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For more than thirty-five years, Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton has focused on two areas: high stakes complex litigation and business bankruptcies. The firm and its attorneys consistently rank among the most highly regarded in these practice areas, and their dedication has earned national recognition — from clients, judges, and opponents — for effectiveness in and out of the courtroom. Every case receives individual attention, with a focus on one thing: advancing client interests.
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Bernice Lee is a Partner at Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton, and focuses her practice on bankruptcy, receiverships and insolvency-related litigation. Her significant experience is reflected in Chambers USA, which ranks Bernice in both Bankruptcy Litigation and Bankruptcy Restructuring, and describes her as “an excellent lawyer able to handle and manage effectively various complicated issues.” She regularly represents creditors, investors, receivers and other fiduciaries, and has guided numerous companies through successful chapter 11 bankruptcies.
Bernice serves as the receiver over MJ Capital Funding, LLC and related companies in an action brought by the SEC in the Southern District of Florida. The companies were used for a Ponzi scheme that raised more than $200 million. Under Bernice’s management, the estate and related settlement fund for an investor class action recovered over $50 million, and the estate reduced the $238 million asserted by over 13,000 claims by $77 million and accounted for over $38 million in payments received by investors. Bernice recently obtained court approval to issue initial pro rata distributions under a rising tide methodology to over 6,000 investors.
In 2024, Bernice was appointed as a receiver over Location Ventures, LLC and 21 related companies in an action brought by the SEC in the Southern District of Florida. The estate involved multiple distressed real estate developments alleged to have been used to raise $93 million from investors through material misrepresentations. Bernice has administered over $50 million in real estate, including a $17.5 million free and clear sale of a luxury residence in Miami’s Coconut Grove neighborhood, and a $17.5 million free and clear sale of commercial real estate in the City of Miami Beach’s South Beach neighborhood.
Bernice serves as Chair of the Florida Bar’s Federal Court Practice Committee (2025-26), and in prior years, served as Vice Chair (2023-25), Education Subcommittee Co-Chair (2022-23), and Judicial Roundtable Subcommittee Co-Chair (2021-22). She also serves as the Co-Chair of the Bankruptcy and Restructuring Committee of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (2024-Present). Bernice’s dedication to the community has been recognized by the Miami-Dade Bar Association as a 2024 Circle of Excellence Bankruptcy Award recipient, the Daily Business Review as a 2023 Unsung Hero awardee for her work on the MJ Capital Funding receivership, and the Florida Trend as one of the 2023 Notable Women Leaders in Law.
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