Howard M. Jaslow

Howard M. Jaslow is an Equity Partner at Goetz Platzer LLP and serves as Head of the Firm’s Commercial Litigation Department. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School. He holds a “Distinguished” rating from Martindale-Hubbell and has represented banks, financial institutions, and equipment lessors continuously since 1989.

He leads a financial institution–focused litigation, foreclosure, and commercial collections practice designed to address distressed credit, complex enforcement matters, and large portfolios with discipline, urgency, and control. He is routinely engaged by lenders, special assets groups, workout teams and corporations when traditional approaches have stalled and decisive, court-driven action is required. His practice encompasses commercial litigation and collections, real estate foreclosures, injunction and attachment proceedings, secured transactions, creditors’ and debtors’ rights, equipment leasing disputes, asset-based lending enforcement, merchant cash advance litigation, and bankruptcy and insolvency-related matters.

He is particularly known for developing creative, results-oriented judgment enforcement and collection initiatives that maximize recovery while maintaining strict cost discipline. These initiatives are tailored to the credit profile, collateral structure, and risk tolerance of each matter and frequently combine litigation pressure with targeted asset discovery and sequencing of enforcement remedies. His enforcement work includes asset tracing, restraining notices, turnover proceedings, receiverships, lien priority disputes, guarantor enforcement, sheriff and marshal executions, foreclosure sales, and coordinated post-judgment remedies across multiple jurisdictions. He approaches enforcement as a business function, focused on leverage, timing, and return on investment, rather than a mechanical legal process.

A central component of his practice is the cost-effective management of large litigation, foreclosure, and commercial collections portfolios. He regularly oversees high-volume and high-value matters for financial institutions, implementing standardized workflows, early case assessment, disciplined reporting protocols, and portfolio-level collection strategies to promote predictability, speed to judgment, and consistent execution. His portfolio management experience includes commercial mortgage foreclosures, guarantor actions, multi-state enforcement campaigns, and complex collection matters involving layered collateral structures and competing creditor interests.

He works extensively with special assets, loan workout, and credit recovery groups at banks, financial institutions and corporations nationwide. He is frequently engaged at the point a loan transition changes from performing to distressed, advising lenders on enforcement strategy, collateral control, litigation posture, and exit options. His role often includes coordinating litigation and foreclosure strategy across multiple jurisdictions, managing local counsel, and aligning legal action with internal credit, regulatory, and risk-management objectives.

He brings a comprehensive understanding of financial institution regulatory requirements and applicable state and federal litigation guidelines and ensures that litigation, foreclosure, and collection initiatives are executed in compliance with banking regulations, supervisory guidance, and jurisdiction-specific procedural requirements. This allows institutions to pursue aggressive recoveries while remaining aligned with internal policies, regulatory expectations, and risk-management standards.

He assists special assets teams with pre-litigation strategy, negotiated resolutions, receiverships, foreclosures, guarantor enforcement, judgment execution, bankruptcy-related recoveries, and innovative collection initiatives designed to uncover non-obvious recovery paths and accelerate cash realization. He is valued for his ability to stabilize distressed portfolios quickly, impose structure on complex matters, and drive consistent outcomes while controlling legal spend.

When institutions request formal panel submissions or competitive reviews, he has delivered aggressive, cost-efficient RFP responses that align fee structures, staffing models, and recovery strategies with institutional budgetary constraints and risk-management expectations.

He regularly appears in state and federal courts throughout New York and directs nationwide litigation and enforcement strategies through close coordination with retained local counsel. He is trusted by institutional clients to control matters early, apply pressure strategically, and move cases efficiently from demand through judgment and recovery.

As Head of the Commercial Litigation Department, he is responsible for the strategic oversight and day-to-day management of the Firm’s litigation, foreclosure, and collections docket. He has played a significant role in expanding the Firm’s institutional client base and is relied upon by banks, insurance companies, public corporations, asset-based lenders, factors, fintech companies, merchant cash advance providers, and equipment lessors to handle their most challenging disputes and recovery efforts.

He is actively involved in numerous professional and civic organizations, including LendIt Fintech; the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association; the Association for Corporate Growth; NEFA; SFNet (Commercial Finance Association); the International Factoring Association; the New York State Bar Association; the Bryant Park Management Corporation/34th Street Partnership; the Accountants & Bankers Chapter Executive Committee of ORT America; the Needlers Foundation; Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York; Go With Courage, Inc.; the New York State Magistrates Association; and the Contemporary Credit Club. He is a former member of the Commercial Law League of America, the International Council of Shopping Centers, and the New York Bankers Association.

From 2006 through 2015, he served as Village Prosecutor for the Village of East Hills, New York. He currently serves as Justice of the Village of East Hills.

He is admitted to practice in the state courts of New York, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania, as well as the United States District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of New York and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.