Bruce Grohsgal, Esq. (o) Widener University School of Law - Delaware 4601 Concord Pike Wilmington, DE cbgrohsgal@widener.edu (o)

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1 Bruce Grohsgal, Esq. (o) Widener University School of Law - Delaware 4601 Concord Pike Wilmington, DE cbgrohsgal@widener.edu (o) Employment Helen S. Balick Visiting Professor in Business Bankruptcy Law Widener University School of Law Wilmington, DE Courses: Bankruptcy, Secured Transactions and Contracts Institute of Delaware Corporate and Business Law Bar Pass Committee Other professional activities: drafting and obtaining approval of the bankruptcy court student practice rule, Delaware Local Bankruptcy Rule , Appearance by Supervised Law Student, effective February 1, 2015; and establishing, with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware in November, 2014, the law school s Honorable Peter J. Walsh Externship for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (July 2014 Present) (February 2000 June 2014) Partner Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones, LLP, Wilmington, DE Chapter 11 Business Bankruptcy and Litigation Representative Cases: Chapter 11 Debtors in Metavation (Revstone Industries); ibahn; Highway Technologies; Solyndra; Anchor Hocking/Mirro/Wearever (Global Home Products); Chi Chi s; Trans World Airlines; Creditors Committees in Trident Microsystems (Far East); Orange County Register (Freedom Communications); Jevic Transportation; Chapter 11 Trustee in Le-Nature s Senior Fellow Americans for Financial Reform, (October January 2013 Washington, DC during Sabbatical) Analyzed and drafted position papers and comments to proposed rules regarding financial institutions CV Grohsgal, 1 / 5

2 Partner - Wolf Block Schorr and Solis-Cohen LLP, (June January 2000 Wilmington, DE and Philadelphia, PA Partner from February 1989) Chapter 11 Business Bankruptcy and Litigation; Commercial Transactions Associate - Sage Gray Todd & Sims, Commercial Transactions Student Intern Cahill Gordon & Reindel, Southern District of New York Litigation Program, Summer Associate, Cohen, Shapiro, Polisher, Shiekman and Cohen, Philadelphia, PA Student Intern, District Attorney, New York County, Appeals Bureau, Summer Associate, District Attorney, New York County, Appeals Bureau, (August May 1983) (September May 1983) (June August 1982) (September May 1982) (June August 1981) Publications and Position Papers Why Recent SPOE Bills for SIFIs Fail, AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE JOURNAL, Vol. XXXIII, No. 12, December Case in Brief against Chapter 14, Blog Post: HARVARD LAW SCHOOL BANKRUPTCY ROUNDTABLE, June 17, 2014, available at Case in Brief against Chapter 14, AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE JOURNAL, Vol. XXXIII, No. 5, May Sections 363 and 364 Use, Sale or Lease of Property and Obtaining Credit, current annual survey chapter for each of eds., in NORTON ANNUAL SURVEY OF BANKRUPTCY LAW (with Peter Keane in 2013 and 2014 eds.). Sections 542 and 543 Turnover of Property of the Estate, current annual survey chapter for each of eds., in NORTON ANNUAL SURVEY OF BANKRUPTCY LAW. CV Grohsgal, 2 / 5

3 The Bankruptcy Code, Chapter 14, Dodd Frank and the Resolution of Financial Institutions, WORKING POSITION PAPER FOR AMERICANS FINANCIAL REFORM, January 2013 COMMENT TO BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK AND THE FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION RE: DODD-FRANK RESOLUTION PLANS, from Americans for Financial Reform, December 2012, coauthor Executive Compensation and the Great Recession, in THE DELAWARE LAWYER, Fall 2010, with Gregg Galardi Chrysler: A One-off, or the Shape of Things to Come? in NORTON BANKRUPTCY ADVISOR, September, 2009, with Judge Lawrence S. Walter, Judge Leif M. Clark and Rob Charles ed. 2008, Chapter on Bankruptcy Code 105 ed. 2008, Chapter on Abandonment (Bankruptcy Code 554) ed. 2008, Chapter on Bankruptcy Code 1111(b) ed. 2008, Chapter on Plan Classification Vendors Win New Protections in Bankruptcy Amendments, in THE JOURNAL OF CORPORATE RENEWAL, August, 2005 New Law Deals Severe Blow to KERPs, Severance Programs, in THE JOURNAL OF CORPORATE RENEWAL, August, 2005 Whose Pension is it Anyway? ERISA and the Bankruptcy Code, in 97 COM. L.J. 12 (1992) (with Marvin Krasny). Critical Issues in Single-Asset Real Estate Bankruptcies, in REAL ESTATE REVIEW (Warren Gorham Lamont), vol. 22, no. 2/Summer 1992, with Robert A. Silverman Contracts to Lease, Letters of Intent, and Term Sheets, in COMMERCIAL TENANT S LEASE TRANSACTIONS GUIDE: FORMS AND STRATEGIES (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.), 1991 Assignment and Sublease, in COMMERCIAL TENANT S LEASE TRANSACTIONS GUIDE: FORMS AND STRATEGIES (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.), 1991 CV Grohsgal, 3 / 5

4 Selected Seminar Participation Faculty Panelist, Eastern District of Pennsylvania Bankruptcy Conference s 26 th Annual Forum, Commercial Session on Lease Rejection, Free and Clear Sales, and Plan Issues Atlantic City, NJ Panelist and Moderator, Widener University School of Law Delaware, Bankruptcy: A Look Back and A Look Ahead, Wilmington, DE Guest Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania Law School First Day Motions in Chapter 11 in Business Bankruptcy: Chapter 11 Course (Michael Temin, Adj. Professor) Philadelphia, PA 2012, 2013 and 2014 Presenter, Widener University School of Law Delaware First Monday A Preview of the New Supreme Court Term, on Bankruptcy Court Jurisdiction and Authority and Wellness International Network, Limited v. Sharif Wilmington, DE Presenter, Helen S. Balick Chair in Business Bankruptcy Law CLE Program, Widener University School of Law, Section 363 Sales in Bankruptcy Wilmington, DE Panelist, Federal Bar Association, Delaware Chapter, Bankruptcy Litigation Advocacy Program Negotiating the Transaction on Behalf of the Debtor: Procedural Issues, Sale Procedures and Issues to Negotiate to Avoid Litigation Wilmington, DE Panelist, Norton Bankruptcy Institute Liquidating Trusts - Jackson Hole, WY 2011 Panelist, Norton Bankruptcy Institute Chapter 11 Developments - Jackson Hole, WY 2011 DE Course Preparer and Panelist, Widener Law School The Intersection of Federal Bankruptcy and State Corporate Law Executive Compensation Issues - Wilmington, DE Course Preparer and Panelist, 28 th Annual Jay Westbrook Bankruptcy Conference Who s Really in Charge Here?" Reorganization in the Shadow of Chrysler - University of Texas Law School, Austin, TX Course Preparer and Panelist, Norton Bankruptcy Institute Financial Instruments in Bankruptcy - Jackson Hole, WY 2009 CV Grohsgal, 4 / 5

5 Panelist, Norton Bankruptcy Institute Chapter 11 Developments - Jackson Hole, WY 2009 Course Preparer and Panelist, Norton Bankruptcy Institute KERPs and Severance Plans - Jackson Hole, WY DE Course Preparer and Panelist, BAPCPA Solutions: KERPs, MIPs and Workarounds American Bankruptcy Institute s Mid-Atlantic Bankruptcy Workshop, Cambridge, MD DE Co-Course Planner Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of Delaware State Bar Association, Wilmington, DE Bar Admissions and Bar Association Leadership Delaware, Pennsylvania and New York United States District Courts - Delaware, E.D.Pa. and W.D.Pa.; Third Circuit Court of Appeals Chair, Bankruptcy Section, Delaware State Bar Association, Education 1980 J.D., Columbia University School of Law Stone Scholar 1980 and B.A., Brandeis University Magna Cum Laude High Honors in History and Sociology CV Grohsgal, 5 / 5