Thomas S. Onder is a Shareholder and member of the Litigation and Bankruptcy & Creditor’s Rights Groups of Stark & Stark. Mr. Onder concentrates his practice in the areas of commercial litigation, commercial landlord disputes, secured transactions, and bankruptcy before federal and state courts in New York and New Jersey.  Mr. Onder deals extensively with problems and opportunities created by business insolvencies, representing (both in bankruptcy cases and out-of-court) a wide variety of creditors.

Mr. Onder is regularly involved in bankruptcy and non-bankruptcy forums representing commercial landlords, financial institutions, equipment leasors and trade creditors in a variety of matters, including the prosecution of commercial eviction and collection actions, pursuing promissory note and guaranties obligations for financial institutions, replevin actions for commercial equipment lease holders, and general creditor representation in Chapter 7 and 11 bankruptcy proceedings.

Recently, Mr. Onder regularly represents a number of commercial landlords as creditors in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in both the District of New Jersey and the Southern District of New York for assumption/rejection of lease issues.
 
Mr. Onder regularly writes on issues for commercial creditors.  He has a regular monthly blog on commercial landlord issues for the New Jersey Law Blog in his "Landlord's Beware" series.  A few of his most recent blogs include:  Options to Purchase Commercial Property Strictly Adhered. Mr. Onder is Chair of the Bankruptcy section of the Mercer County Bar Association and is also a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers, Inc.

Prior to joining Stark & Stark, Mr. Onder was a law clerk for United States Bankruptcy Judges Kathryn C. Ferguson and Raymond T. Lyons in Trenton, NJ.  Prior to his clerkship, Mr. Onder was a legal editor for Collier on Bankruptcy and various commercial legal treatises at LexisNexis. In addition, Mr. Onder interned for United States Bankruptcy Arthur Gonzalez in the Southern District of New York, while in law school.

Mr. Onder is a frequent contributor to the New Jersey Law Blog. You can read Mr. Onder's most recent blog post here.