Douglas S. Skalka is an experienced bankruptcy and commercial finance practitioner representing businesses, lenders, trade auditors and investors in many bankruptcy and business reorganization matters over the past thirty years. Doug’s clients include secured and unsecured creditors, debtors, commercial lenders, trustees, and creditors’ committees. Cases are located in Connecticut and though out the country. His services include serving as counsel for asset-based lending transactions, avoidance actions, and the acquisition of troubled companies and their assets.

Attorney Skalka holds a certification in business bankruptcy from the American Board of Certification. He was recently named a Senior Specialist by the Board as he has held a certification in business bankruptcy for more than twenty years. The American Board of Certification is the nation's premier legal specialty certification organization, certifying attorneys as specialist in business bankruptcy, consumer bankruptcy and creditors' rights law.

In addition, Attorney Skalka served as the Co-chairman of the Bankruptcy Committee of the Stamford Regional Bar Association and Chairman of the Bankruptcy Committee for the New Haven County Bar Association. He served as the President of the Connecticut chapter of the Turnaround Management Association (1999-2000) and is a current board member. Attorney Skalka served as a Contributing Editor to the 1998-1999 treatise on bankruptcy law published by Wiley Publications. Attorney Skalka is admitted to practice in the states of New York and Connecticut. He is an active member of the American Bar Association (Business Law Section), the American Bankruptcy Institute, the Connecticut Bar Association (Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section), and has lectured extensively on commercial finance, business reorganizations and insolvency issues.

Attorney Skalka graduated from Cornell University in 1982 and received his law degree from Boston University School of Law in 1985. In law school he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Probate Law Journal. Prior to joining Neubert, Pepe & Monteith in 1995, Attorney Skalka was a partner with Whitman, Breed, Abbott & Morgan.