Benjamin Weintraub Distinguished Professor of Bankruptcy Law, Hofstra University School of Law, Hempstead, New York

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1 ALAN N. RESNICK Hofstra University School of Law 121 Hofstra University Hempstead, New York Tel: (516) Fax: (516) Current Employment: Benjamin Weintraub Distinguished Professor of Bankruptcy Law, Hofstra University School of Law, Hempstead, New York Teaching and Law School Administrative Experience: Subject Areas: Bankruptcy, Debtor-Creditor Law, Contracts, Secured Transactions, Commercial Transactions, Uniform Commercial Code Faculty and Administrative Positions at Hofstra University School of Law: Interim Dean, Benjamin Weintraub Distinguished Professor of Bankruptcy Law, 1984 to present Professor of Law, 1979 to present Associate Dean, 1979 to 1981 Associate Professor of Law, 1976 to 1979 Assistant Professor of Law, 1974 to 1976 Hofstra University Committees and Positions: Faculty Advisory Committee on the Presidential Search, 2000 to 2001 University Center for Teaching Excellence, 1990 to 1993 Visiting Professor, New York University School of Law, 2004 Other Professional Activities and Affiliations: Of Counsel to the firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, New York City (consultant on complex debt restructurings and chapter 11 reorganizations) (1989 to present) Reporter (1987 to 1999) and Member (1999 to 2005) of the Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules of the Judicial Conference of the United States (appointed by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist) Member of the National Bankruptcy Conference (law reform organization dedicated to the improvement of bankruptcy law and practice, consisting of 65 lawyers, judges and law professors elected to membership) (1984 to present); Executive Committee (1989 to

2 Education: Publications: 1992; 2000 to present); Chair of Drafting Committee (2004 to present) Chairman, Local Rules Committee of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (2003 to present) Scholar-in-Residence ( ) and Fellow (1999 to present) of the American College of Bankruptcy Member of the American Law Institute (1996 to present); Consultative Group on Transnational Insolvency Project Fellow of the American Bar Foundation (1999 to present) Member of the Merit Selection Panel appointed by Chief Judge Jon O. Newman of the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to identify meritorious candidates for a bankruptcy judgeship in the Southern District of New York (1995) Member of the American Bankruptcy Institute Harvard Law School, LL.M 1974 Georgetown University Law Center, J.D Editor, Georgetown Law Journal Rider College, B.S. in Business Administration 1969 Books: Author, BANKRUPTCY LAW MANUAL (Thomson/West) (treatise originally coauthored with the late Benjamin Weintraub in 1980) (2 nd ed. 1986; 3 rd ed. 1992; 4 th ed. 1996; 5 th ed. 2002). Editor-in-Chief, COLLIER ON BANKRUPTCY (15 th Edition), a multi-volume treatise published by Matthew Bender & Co., a division of LexisNexis (2002 to present). Contributor, BLACK S LAW DICTIONARY (8 th ed. 2004) (reviewed and drafted legal definitions). Editor, BANKRUPTCY PRACTICE AND STRATEGY, published by Warren, Gorham & Lamont (1987) 2

3 Co-editor with Eugene M. Wypyski, BANKRUPTCY REFORM ACT OF 1978: A LEGISLATIVE HISTORY, a 17-volume work published by William S. Hein & Company, Inc., 1979 Articles: Author, The Future of the Doctrine of Necessity and Critical-Vendor Payments in Chapter 11 Cases, 47 BOSTON COLLEGE LAW REVIEW 183 (2005). Author, AThe Impact and Influence of Professor Lawrence P. King,@ 75 AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY LAW JOURNAL 401 (2001), reprinted in LAWRENCE P. KING: LAWYER, TEACHER, SCHOLAR, AND LAW REFORMER, a special publication by LexisNexis (2001) Author, ASubordination Agreement Provisions Shifting Chapter 11 Voting Rights: Can the Seniors Disenfranchise the Juniors?,@ 118 BANKING LAW JOURNAL 297 (2001) Author, ABankruptcy as a Vehicle for Resolving Enterprise-Threatening Mass Tort Liability,@ 148 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW REVIEW 2045 (2000) Author, "The Bankruptcy Rulemaking Process," 70 AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY LAW JOURNAL 245 (1996) Co-author, "Freezing the Debtor's Account: A Banker's Dilemma Under the Bankruptcy Code," 100 BANKING LAW JOURNAL 316 (1983) Co-author, "Involuntary Petitions Under the New Bankruptcy Code," 97 BANKING LAW JOURNAL 292 (1980), reprinted in CORPORATION COUNSEL'S ANNUAL , volume 2, p. 291 (Matthew Bender & Co., 1981) Co-author, "A House May Not Be A Home: Liquidation Under the Bankruptcy Act," 53 NEW YORK STATE BAR JOURNAL 272 (1981), reprinted in 86 COMMERCIAL LAW JOURNAL 286 (1981) Author, "Prudent Planning or Fraudulent Transfer? The Use of Nonexempt Assets to Purchase or Improve Exempt Property on the Eve of Bankruptcy," 31 RUTGERS LAW REVIEW 615 (1978), reprinted in 85 COMMERCIAL LAW JOURNAL 238 (1980) Co-author, "Allowance of Claims and Priorities Under the New Bankruptcy Code," 12 UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE LAW JOURNAL 290 (1980) Author, "Consumer Arbitration as an Alternative to Judicial Preseizure Replevin Proceedings," 16 WILLIAM AND MARY LAW REVIEW 269 (1974) 3

4 Interviews: Testimony: Columns: Author or co-author of more than 50 articles that have appeared in the UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE LAW JOURNAL as columns under the heading "From the Bankruptcy Courts" between 1983 and The following is a sample list: ALimitations on the United States Trustee=s Power to Appoint Committees: Lessons from PG&E, 34 U.C.C.L.J. 215 (2001) AThe Effect of a Cross-Default Provision on the Ability to Assume an Executory Contract or Unexpired Lease,@ 32 U.C.C.L.J. 338 (2000) AWhen an Oversecured Creditor is Entitled to Postpetition Interest at the Default Rate: the Thirty-Six Percent Award,@ 32 U.C.C.L.J. 212 (1999) ASupreme Court Adopts Replacement Cost Method of Valuing Collateral for Chapter 13 Cram Down Purposes,@ 30 U.C.C.L.J. 333 (1998) ACan Low Market Value of Debt Securities Render a Corporation Solvent for Preference Purposes? A Surprising Decision from Delaware,@ 30 U.C.C.L.J. 102 (1997) AExpiration of Letter of Credit After Payment Leaves Creditor Vulnerable to Preference Risk,@ 28 U.C.C.L.J. 414 (1996) ALocal Bankruptcy Court Rules and Procedures: Needed Relief for the National Practitioner,@ 28 U.C.C.L.J. 312 (1996). "Applying Adequate Protection Payments From Post-Petition Rents: Do They Reduce the Debt?," 27 U.C.C. L. J. 216 (1995) "How the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1994 Affects Secured Creditors and Mortgagees in Business Cases," 27 U.C.C. L.J. 91 (1995) "Bankruptcy and the Financial Manager: An Interview with Alan Resnick," Business & Tax Planning Quarterly, a publication of the National Association of Accountants, Inc., volume 4, number 2 (1988) Testified before the Subcommittee on Administrative and Commercial Law, Committee on the Judiciary of the U.S. House of Representatives, on proposed bankruptcy reform 4

5 legislation, 1998 Testified before the National Bankruptcy Review Commission, Washington, D.C., on bankruptcy reform and executory contracts, 1997 Professional Speaking Activities: Speaker, The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, presented to the Committee of Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States, Philadelphia, 2006 Speaker, Interim Bankruptcy Rules to Implement the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, presented at the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, San Antonio, Texas, 2005 Speaker, Bankruptcy Rules Process and the 2005 Bankruptcy Legislation, University of Texas Bankruptcy Conference, Austin, Texas, 2005 Speaker, Bankruptcy Symposium on The Future of Chapter 11, sponsored by Boston College Law Review and the American College of Bankruptcy, Boston, MA, 2005 Faculty, Annual New York University Workshop on Bankruptcy and Business Reorganization, New York City, , Panelist, presentation on Mass Torts and Bankruptcy at the Third Circuit Judicial Conference, Philadelphia, 2003 Moderator, program on Equitable Subordination and Recharacterization, sponsored by the American College of Bankruptcy, San Diego, 2003 Moderator, panel discussion on The Implications of Enron, sponsored by the American College of Bankruptcy, Chicago, Speaker, AHot and Emerging Topics in Chapter program sponsored by the Commercial Law League of America and delivered at the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, Orlando, 2001 Speaker, ADisclosure Requirements under Proposed Amendments to Bankruptcy Rule program sponsored by the ABA Business Bankruptcy Committee, Subcommittee on Professional Ethics, Orlando, Florida, 2001 Moderator, ADialogue with United States program sponsored by the American College of Bankruptcy, Orlando, Florida,

6 Moderator, ARevised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code", program sponsored by the American College of Bankruptcy, Washington, D.C., 2001 Moderator, AThe Duty to Disclose Connections: How to Comply with Bankruptcy Rule 2014,@ program sponsored by the American College of Bankruptcy, Boston, MA, 2000 Panelist on AThe Future of Bankruptcy,@ at Views From the Bench program co-sponsored by Georgetown University Law Center and the American Bankruptcy Institute, Washington, DC, 2000 Presenter of Paper on ABankruptcy as a Vehicle for Resolving Enterprise-Threatening Mass Tort Liability@ at Symposium on Mass Torts at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, 1999 Speaker on ACurrent Developments in Business Bankruptcies,@ at the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA 1999 Faculty, Annual Bankruptcy Forum sponsored by the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Bankruptcy Conference, Princeton, New Jersey, , 1999 Panelist, program on privacy concerns relating to bankruptcy data collection and availability, sponsored by the American Bar Association and held at the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, Dallas, Texas, 1998 Participant, Conference on mass tort litigation sponsored by the Mass Tort Working Group of the Judicial Conference of the United States, held in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., 1998 Speaker, "Current Developments in Bankruptcy," Annual Uniform Commercial Code Institute, Washington, D.C., 1982, 1987, 1989, , Speaker, "Recent Developments in Bankruptcy Law," annual program of the Nassau Academy of Law and Suffolk Academy of Law, Speaker, "What Real Estate Practitioners Should Know About the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1994," sponsored by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, New York City, 1994 Speaker, "The Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1994," Bankruptcy Committee of the New York Chapter of the Women's Bar Association, New York City, 1994 Speaker, "Recent Developments in Bankruptcy Law," Seminar for the Association of Commercial Finance Attorneys, Montauk, New York,

7 Panelist, "Directors' Fiduciary Duties Owed to Creditors of Insolvent Corporations," program of the Bankruptcy Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1994 Panelist, "Significant Developments in Bankruptcy Practice," sponsored by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1993 Panelist, "Bankruptcy Reform Circa 1993," a presentation of the National Bankruptcy Conference's Bankruptcy Code Review Project, co-sponsored by the National Bankruptcy Conference and the American Law Institute-American Bar Association, Atlanta, 1993 Speaker, "Executory Contracts and Unexpired Leases," New York Law Journal Program on Bankruptcy Litigation, New York City, 1993 Speaker, Annual Stetson College of Law Bankruptcy Seminar, St. Petersburg Beach, Florida, 1987 and 1993 Speaker, "Update on the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure," meeting of the American Bar Association subcommittee on bankruptcy rules, Orlando, Florida, 1993 Speaker, National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, Annual Convention, San Antonio, Texas, 1992 Panelist, "Bankruptcy Laws and the Bankrupt Marriage," sponsored by the Committee on Matrimonial Law of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1991 Panelist, "1991 Amendments to the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure," Annual Management Conference of the United States Trustee Program, Newport Center, California, 1991 Speaker, New York County Lawyers' Association Program on the 1991 Amendments to the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure, New York City, 1991 Speaker, "Bankruptcy and Foreclosures," The Long Island Real Estate Symposium, Hofstra University, 1991 Speaker, "Bankruptcy Issues Concerning Distressed Real,@ New York State Bar Association Program on Distressed Real Estate, New York City, 1991 Commentator, "A Bankruptcy Law Symposium," The Annual Survey of American Law, New York University,

8 Panelist, Practicing Law Institute Program on "Dealing with the Reorganizing Debtor," New York City, 1990 Panelist, "Corporate Reconstruction: Managing the Aftermath of the 1980's," Annual Turnaround Industry Conference sponsored by Turnaround Management Assoc., 1990 Panelist, "Bankruptcy Court Jurisdiction," Ninth Annual Bankruptcy Conference, University of Texas School of Law, 1990 Lectures at Seminars for U.S. Bankruptcy Judges, sponsored by the Federal Judicial Center: New Orleans, Louisiana, 1989 Miami, Florida, 1988 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1986 Washington, D. C., (for Newly Appointed Bankruptcy Judges) Hershey, Pennsylvania, 1984 Phoenix, Arizona, 1984 Asheville, North Carolina, 1983 Panelist, "Basic Bankruptcy in New York," a seminar sponsored by the National Business Institute, Inc., Westbury, New York, 1988 Speaker, "Exemptions, Property of the Estate, and Executory Contracts in Bankruptcy," Eastern District of New York Bankruptcy Symposium sponsored by the United States District Court and Bankruptcy Court, 1985 Speaker, National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, Annual Convention, Orlando, Florida, 1984 Speaker, New York State Bar Association Program on "Consumer Bankruptcy: A Primer for the General Practitioner," 1981 Speaker, Program on "Articles III and IV of the Uniform Commercial Code", American Bar Association Committee on Savings and Loan Law, New York Chapter, New York City, 1981 Bar Admissions: New York State Bar, 1973 U.S. District Court, S.D.N.Y., 1975 U.S. District Court, E.D.N.Y., 1975 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit,