Jeannie Kim

Jeannie Kim is an associate in the Finance and Bankruptcy Practice Group in the firm's San Francisco office.

Areas of Practice

Jeannie represents corporate debtors-in-possession, official committees of unsecured creditors, chapter 11 trustees, asset purchasers, and individual creditors in all aspects of complex chapter 11 cases, related litigation, state and federal receivership cases, state insolvency proceedings, and out-of-court workouts.  She has also represented financial institutions, technology companies, commercial landlords, and vendors as secured creditors, contract counterparties, and administrative creditors in insolvency proceedings.  Jeannie has also provided general legal counsel to commercial clients in a range of industries including technology, commercial leasing, entertainment, retail, hospitality, manufacturing and distribution, consumer products, alternative energy, mining, aviation, and real estate development. 

Honors

• Super Lawyers Northern Calif. “Rising Star” (2018 - 2020); Southern Calif. “Rising Star” (2013 - 2016)
• “Best Lawyers Under 40,” National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (2018)
• “40 Under 40” Inaugural Class, American Bankruptcy Institute (2017)
• Rising Star Semi-Finalist, International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (2017)

Articles

Media Mentions

Speaking Engagements

• American Bankruptcy Institute, Winter Leadership Conference, Panelist, Climate Change: The Leading Cause of Tomorrow’s Insolvency Problems (December 2023)
• American Bankruptcy Institute, Southwest Bankruptcy Conference, ABITalks Speaker, Climate Change, Tourism, and Chapter 11:  A Case Study of In re Redwood Empire Lodging, L.P. (September 2022)
• American Bankruptcy Institute, Annual Spring Meeting, Panelist, Reconsidering Value Allocation: Tools for Junior Stakeholders (April 2022)
• American Bankruptcy Institute, Southwest Bankruptcy Conference, Panelist, First Look at Small Business Reorganization Act Cases (August 2021)
• Bar Association of San Francisco, Panelist, Walks, Talks, and Smells Like Fraud: Ponzi Schemes in Bankruptcy (September 2020)
• Bar Association of San Francisco, Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section, Panelist, Cannabis and Bankruptcy: The Hazy State of the Law (July 2019)
• Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors, Annual Bankruptcy & Restructuring Conference, Panelist, Financial Toolbox (June 2019, 2018, 2017, and 2016)
• American Bankruptcy Institute, Annual Winter Leadership Conference, Should We File It Here or There? Venue Options in Cross-Border Cases (December 2018)
• Bay Area Bankruptcy Forum, Judges’ Night, The Problems with Cannabis Cases (September 2018)
• National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges 91^st Annual Conference, Contestant, ‘Fish Tank’ Live at the Paris Hotel – Will the Shooter be Able to Sell Its Assets Without Successor Liability? (October 2017)
• International Association of Korean Lawyers, 25^th Annual Conference, Panelist, New Kid on the Block [Comparative review of specialized courts to adjudicate insolvency and restructuring proceedings in the U.S, South Korea, and Europe] (September 2017)
• National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, 26^th Annual Conference, Moderator, Where’s the Money? Recovering Hidden Assets – International Judgment Enforcement (November 2014)
• National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, 25^th Annual Conference, Panelist, Silver Linings Playbook: Playing Smart to Achieve Success (November 2013)

Events

Memberships

• Bay Area Bankruptcy Forum, Vice President (2024-2025), Secretary (2023-2024), Treasurer (2022 - 2023); Programming Committee Co-Chair (2020 – 2023); At-Large Director (2019 - 2021)

• Committee Member and Panelist, Roadways to the Bench, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California, (April 2023)

• California Bankruptcy Forum Annual Insolvency Conference Co-Chair (36^th Annual Insolvency Conference, 2024); General Education Co-Chair (34^th Annual Insolvency Conference, 2023); Panel Co-Producer, General Session Education Program (32nd Annual Insolvency Conference, 2021); Young Insolvency Professionals Program Co-Chair (29th and 33^rd Annual Insolvency Conference, 2018 and 2022); Panel Co-Producer, Young Insolvency Professionals Program (28th and 27th Annual Insolvency Conferences, 2016 and 2015)

• Co-Chair, Bench-Bar Liaison Committee for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California (2022 - 2023); Member (2020 - 2024)
• Turnaround Management Association (2017 - Present); Network of Women Chair, Northern California Chapter (2020 – 2024); Journal of Corporate Renewal Editorial Advisory Board (2019 - 2020)

• American Bankruptcy Institute (2010 - Present); Annual Southwest Bankruptcy Conference, Sponsorship Co-Chair (2022-2023); Advisory Board Member (2019 - 2024)

• Bar Association of San Francisco, Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section, Vice Chair (2023); Treasurer (2022); Secretary (2021); Executive Committee Member (2019 - 2020)
• International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (2010 - Present); Northern California Network Events Co-Chair (2016 - 2018)
• National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, 2018 Education Committee (October 2018)
• Orange County Bar Association, Appointments Committee Member (2018)
• Orange County Asian American Bar Association (2011 - Present); 25^th President (2018 - 2019); President-Elect (2017- 2018); Treasurer (2016 - 2017); Secretary (2015 - 2016); Director (2013 - 2015)
• National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, Direct/Affiliate Member (2009 - Present); Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Creditors’/Debtors’ Rights Committee Co-Chair (2014- 2018)
• Collaborative Bar Leadership Academy (American Bar Association), Inaugural Class Member (2013); NAPABA Alumni Committee Representative (2014)
• University of California, Irvine – School of Law Domestic Violence Clinic, Attorney Supervisor (2014)

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