Statewide law firm Broad and Cassel announced Frank P. Terzo and Michael D. Lessne have joined the Fort Lauderdale office as partners, beefing up the firm’s health law and bankruptcy practice groups while creating a new health care insolvency service for the firm.
Frank Terzo joins Broad and Cassel’s Health Law and Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights Practice Groups. He previously served as executive partner and chair of GrayRobinson’s bankruptcy practice group. While there, he was involved in a wide range of insolvency matters, including representation of corporate and consumer clients in complex workouts, bankruptcies, assignments for the benefit of creditors and receiverships. He also has substantial experience in both the prosecution and defense of all forms of complex bankruptcy litigation, including preference and fraudulent transfer proceedings and complex contested matters.
Michael D. Lessne also joins Broad and Cassel as partner in the Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights, Health Law, and Commercial Litigation Practice Groups. A licensed CPA in Florida, Lessne provides counsel to businesses and individuals in a broad array of restructuring and insolvency matters, including to debtors, lenders and other creditors, and fiduciaries in complex business and consumer bankruptcy matters, state court assignments, and out-of-court workouts, as well as in state and federal court proceedings involving complex litigation. Prior to joining the firm, he was a shareholder with GrayRobinson in Fort Lauderdale.