Bankruptcy 101: Bankruptcy Basics for Non-Bankruptcy Lawyers

Taruna Garg is a commercial litigation attorney practicing in the areas of business litigation, bankruptcy and creditors’ rights. She represents individual and corporate clients in a wide range of disputes including breach of contract, lender liability, financial workout, complex tort litigation and antitrust matters throughout all stages of litigation, settlement and alternative dispute processes. In her bankruptcy practice, Taruna represents trustees, debtors (and their directors, officers and employees), lenders and other companies as secured or unsecured creditors in a variety of complex matters, including liquidation, reorganization, financial workout, turnover, fraudulent transfer, preference and mortgage-related actions. Taruna has successfully prosecuted and defended cases involving breach of fiduciary duty against directors and officers, preferential transfers, fraudulent transfer actions, lender liability, protection of collateral, foreclosure, asset allocation and breach of contract disputes.

In 2017, Ms. Garg was recognized by the Fairfield County Business Journal as one of Fairfield County’s Top “40 Under 40” Businesspeople, and in 2012 she was named a “New Leader in the Law” by the Connecticut Law Tribune. In May of 2010, Taruna was chosen as a Diversity Hero by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and in April of 2009, was selected by the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women as an Unsung Heroine. Taruna has also been selected as a “Rising Star” by Boston Magazine every year since 2007.

Taruna earned her Bachelor of Arts in International Relations, cum laude, from Boston University in 1999. She graduated from the Boston University School of Law in 2002, where she served as an editor with the American Journal of Law and Medicine.

Ms. Su received her J.D. from Boston College Law School in 1998.
As a law student, she served as Managing Editor for the Boston College Third World Journal.

After graduating, she worked at Gordon Haley, LLP. in Boston. In 2009, she began working for the Murphy Law Group in North Andover, and in 2012, she began a solo practice as Minerva Law, P.C., in Andover. Since 2016, Ms. Su has served as Law Clerk to the Honorable Frank Bailey in the United States Bankruptcy Court in Boston. Ms. Su received her B.A. from the University of Michigan.

From 1994 to 1995, she studied Japanese and Japan-related subjects at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan. She has taught in the program for four years. Ms. Su will also be teaching the Judicial Writing class again this year.