Bio

Colin Bernardino focuses his practice on bankruptcy and insolvency matters. Mr. Bernardino represents committees, creditors, debtors, and trustees in both workouts and bankruptcy proceedings. He frequently represents unsecured creditors committees in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of hospitals as well as holding companies of financial institutions such as insurance companies. Mr. Bernardino also represents receivers, trustees and other estate fiduciaries in fraud investigations and related litigation. He has counseled clients in all aspects of matters related to Ponzi schemes, including the representation of receivers, defrauded investors, and defendants in claw-back litigation. During his representation of a receiver appointed over a family of investment funds and after a consolidated trial against more than sixty defendants, Mr. Bernardino successfully obtained a determination that the funds had been operated as a Ponzi scheme. This determination was later affirmed on appeal. During his representation of the receiver, Mr. Bernardino has tried more than a dozen claw-back lawsuits and obtained judgments avoiding and recovering fraudulent transfers in each of them. Mr. Bernardino was recognized in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 by The Best Lawyers in America® for Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law.