New York 41 Madison Avenue 20th Floor New York, NY 10010 tel. +1 212.382.0909 fax +1 212.382.3456 rschwartz@pecklaw.com   Richard H. Schwartz has broad-based experience in various corporate areas, including commercial, corporate and real estate finance; general corporate law; mergers and acquisitions; and capital markets. In addition, Mr. Schwartz has been involved with numerous reorganizations, workouts and restructurings. Mr. Schwartz has extensive experience in counseling lenders and borrowers in secured and unsecured commercial, corporate and real estate financing transactions. He has represented domestic and foreign banks, investment funds and other financial institutions, both individually and as multi-lender syndicates, in structuring, restructuring and documenting sophisticated finance deals. Mr. Schwartz has represented borrowers in a wide variety of industries, including manufacturing, real estate development and professional services. Mr. Schwartz’s practice also encompasses general corporate matters, mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions. He has counseled small- and medium-sized businesses on day-to-day corporate and business law matters. He has played pivotal roles on behalf of buyers and sellers in numerous public and private mergers, acquisitions and dispositions across a wide spectrum of sectors and industries. In addition, Mr. Schwartz has participated in public offerings and private placements of assorted debt and equity securities. Mr. Schwartz works with vibrant, healthy enterprises as well as with distressed businesses and their creditors. Prior to joining Peckar & Abramson, P.C., he regularly contributed corporate expertise to reorganizations, workouts and restructurings, including asset sales under Bankruptcy Code Section 363. Mr. Schwartz earned his Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from The Johns Hopkins University in 1989 and his law degree from Cornell University in 1992. Mr. Schwartz is admitted to practice in the State of New York and the State of New Jersey.