2025 New York Regional Meeting
About Our Speakers
Melanie L. Cyganowski
Otterbourg, P.C. | New York, NY
Melanie L. Cyganowski joined Otterbourg P.C. as a partner in 2008, after serving a full 14-year term as a Bankruptcy Judge in the Eastern District of New York. From November 29, 2005 through the end of her term, she was the Court’s Chief Judge. Graduating magna cum laude from the School of Law at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Melanie then served as a law clerk to the late Hon. Charles L. Brieant, former Chief Judge in the Southern District of New York. Following her clerkship, Melanie was a litigator at Sullivan & Cromwell, and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy.
Melanie presently chairs Otterbourg’s Bankruptcy practice. She was lead co-counsel to the Coalition of Counsel For Justice For Talc Claimants in Red River Talc LLC; lead co-counsel to the Official Committees of Claimants in LTL 1 and LTL 2, and Aearo Technologies (3M); co-counsel to the Ad Hoc Committee of consenting governmental parties in Purdue Pharma, and counsel to the Ad Hoc Committee of States with Acthar-related claims in Mallinckrodt. She has been appointed as Receiver in SEC v. StraightPath Management, SEC v. Platinum Partners, and in ÂCP Investment Group, LP. Her other fiduciary appointments include (a) Chief Restructuring Officer and Temporary Operator of Brooklyn’s Interfaith Medical Center, a 287-bed acute care teaching hospital with ambulatory and out-patients clinics in the surrounding Bed-Stuy neighborhood, and (b) Patient Care Ombudsman in Randolph Health, Promise Healthcare, 21st Century Oncology and California Proton. She has also represented Official Committees of Unsecured Creditors in bankruptcy cases, including L&L Wings, Quirky and Escada. In addition, Melanie has represented the FDIC as Receiver in various bankruptcy cases; has served as the Auditor of Capital One in connection with a consent judgment in a national matter; and is an arbitrator/mediator in numerous disputes, including Drivetrain (Puerto Rico post-confirmation), Madoff, Lehman, Century 21, Quebecor and Metaldyne.
In 2014, Melanie was inducted as a Fellow into the American College of Bankruptcy. An author of numerous articles, she sits on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Norton Journal of Bankruptcy Practice & Law. Melanie is also a Fellow of the American and New York State Bar Foundations, and a retired adjunct professor of law at St. John’s University School of Law.
Matthew Dors
Collas Crill | Grand Cayman
Matthew specialises in high-value and high-profile cross-border commercial litigation, insolvency and restructuring.
Experience:
Matthew has particular expertise in complex cross-border insolvencies and restructurings and regularly advises and represents liquidators and stakeholders in relation to contentious and non-contentious matters, including seeking court assistance for foreign insolvency proceedings.
He has regularly advised financial institutions in relation to fraud and asset recovery matters (including obtaining urgent relief such as freezing injunctions and disclosure orders).
Background:
Prior to moving to Cayman in 2013, Matthew practised for a number of years as a Barrister in England and Wales, with a focus on complex trust, insolvency and property disputes.
He has extensive advocacy experience, having regularly appeared in the High Court and the Court of Appeal.
Matthew is ranked in Band 5 in Chambers and Partners
Martin Trott
R&H Restructuring | Grand Cayman
Martin is an insolvency practitioner based in the Cayman Islands and qualified accountant with over 30 years’ experience. He heads up R&H Restructuring’s insolvency and restructuring team in Cayman, the BVI and Bermuda.
He has broad experience in leading complex, cross-border administrations, liquidations and receiverships across a number of industry sectors. A few of his notable court appointments are HQP, AquaPoint, Madison Asset and Platinum Partners.
Martin is co-chair of NAFER’s international committee, a member of INSOL, ABI and a board member of RISA Cayman.
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