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Mr. Mairo focuses his practice on commercial litigation, workouts, financial reorganizations, and creditors’ rights. A respected and particularly well-rounded insolvency lawyer, he has represented an extensive slate of clients that comprises debtors, secured lenders, creditors’ committees, landlords, administrative agents for syndicates of lenders, foreign representatives, and more. Throughout his decades-long career, he has handled mid-size to multibillion-dollar bankruptcy matters on both national and international scales, securing favorable settlements, proposing beneficial recovery plans, and successfully litigating cases that have enabled his clients’ businesses to thrive and prosper. His significant experience has included complex restructuring and antitrust multidistrict litigation.
Mr. Mairo is known by his clients and colleagues alike for his leadership qualities, legal acumen, and strategic thinking, which over the course of his career have yielded impressive results and garnered him numerous recognitions. In particular, he is an INSOL International Fellow and committee member of the INSOL Insolvency Practitioners Group, and one of only three bankruptcy attorneys in the Third Circuit selected for induction this March as a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. Additionally, in 2020, Best Lawyers® featured him as “Lawyer of the Year” for Litigation/Bankruptcy in the Newark area.
Mr. Mairo was most recently with Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, P.C., serving as both Chair of the Commercial Practice Group and Co-Chair of the Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Department.
Credentials
Education
Seton Hall University School of Law (J.D.)
- Managing Editor, Seton Hall Journal of Sport Law
- Seton Hall Juvenile Justice Clinic
Boston College (B.A., cum laude)
Professional Admissions
State of New Jersey
State of New York
United States Supreme Court
United States District Court, District of New Jersey
United States District Court, Northern District of New York
United States District Court, Southern District of New York
United States District Court, Eastern District of New York
Professional Activities
Member, Lawyers Advisory Committee of the Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey
Mediator, U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New Jersey
Fellow, INSOL International
Committee Member, INSOL Insolvency Practitioners Group
American Board of Certification, Business Bankruptcy Law
Standards Committee for American Board of Certification (Business Bankruptcy), 2009-2011
American Bankruptcy Institute
New Jersey Turnaround Management Association
New Jersey State Bar Association
New York City Bar Association
Judicial Clerkship(s)
Law Clerk, Legal Intern, Honorable Rosemary Gambardella, Bankruptcy Judge for the District of New Jersey, 1994–1995, 1992–1993
Legal Employment
Principal/Commercial Practice Group Chair/Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Department Co-Chair, Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, P.C., Morristown, NJ, 2003-2025
Counsel, Associate, Clifford Chance U.S. LLP, New York, New York, 2003, 2000–2003
Associate, Riker Danzig LLP (formerly Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti LLP), Morristown, NJ, 1995–2000