Jerry is Senior Counsel in the Restructuring and Insolvency group. He focuses his practice on representing stakeholders in all types of financial restructuring and insolvency related matters. He has represented clients in out-of-court workouts, pre-packaged, pre-negotiated and traditional chapter 11 cases, purchase and sale transactions involving distressed assets, state law dissolutions, insurance liquidations and similar matters. He has also prosecuted and defended complex adversary proceedings, including on behalf of objectors in chapter 11 cases, as well as fiduciaries, plaintiffs and defendants in recovery litigation under the Bankruptcy Code.

Mr. Bregman also concentrates his practice on representing clients in cross-border insolvency proceedings. Among other matters, he participated in representing the “sindico” (Mexican liquidator) in the first successful ancillary proceeding brought by a sindico in the United States following the 2000 enactment of Mexico’s insolvency law, as well as parties in cross-border insolvency proceedings involving participants in China and Canada.

Clients have included publicly and privately owned debtor companies, owners, creditors, committees, fiduciaries, governmental entities, hedge fund and private equity managers and investors, claims traders, commercial landlords and tenants, and others.

Mr. Bregman is a lecturer and writer on domestic and international insolvency issues.

Education

University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, J.D., Order of the Coif

University of California, Los Angeles, Anderson Graduate School of Management, M.B.A.

University of California, Berkeley, B.A, Phi Beta Kappa

Admitted to Practice

New York

California

Colorado

Certified Specialist in Bankruptcy Law, California Board of Legal Specialization, 1995

Courts

New York - all state courts

California - all state courts

Colorado – all state courts

Colorado District Court

U.S. Court of Appeals - Second Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals - Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals – Tenth Circuit

U.S. District Court - Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court - Eastern District of New York

U.S. District Court - Central District of California

U.S. District Court – Northern District of California

U.S. District Court – Southern District of California

U.S. District Court – Eastern District of California

Membership

American Bankruptcy Institute

Turnaround Management Association

U.S.–Mexico Bar Association (Board of Directors)

Metro Volunteer Lawyers – pro bono program (volunteer attorney for consumer bankruptcy cases)

The Association of the Bar of the City of New York

New York State Bar Association

American Bar Association

California Bar Association

Los Angeles County Bar Association

Colorado Bar Association

Jerrold L. Bregman

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