Geraldine Ann Freeman - Partner - San Francisco

Ms. Freeman is a Co-Practice Group Leader for Sheppard Mullin's Finance & Bankruptcy practice. She specializes in finance, real estate, bankruptcy, workouts, and enforcement of creditors' rights and remedies.  Ms. Freeman represents a wide range of clients in all aspects of finance, real estate, bankruptcy and creditors' rights. Industries have included agriculture, alcoholic beverage, real estate, hospitality, manufacturing, retail, defense, health care and high technology products and services, automotive and the arts.

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Alan H. Martin - Partner - Orange County

Mr. Martin is a Co-Practice Group Leader for Sheppard Mullin's Finance & Bankruptcy practice. He specializes in commercial finance law, corporate restructuring, asset disposition and acquisition, creditors' rights enforcement, commercial litigation and bankruptcy. His expertise includes extensive work in bankruptcy and state courts, as well as loan documentation. He has represented creditors' committees, secured and unsecured creditors, trustees, landlords, equipment lessors and debtors and the schools subcommittee (with total claims of over $1.1 billion) in the County of Orange bankruptcy.

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Michael H. Ahrens - Partner - San Francisco

Mr. Ahrens represents clients throughout the country in all types of insolvency proceedings, including confirmation of plans, rejection and assumption of leases and other executory contracts, and bankruptcy litigation. Mr. Ahrens represents secured creditors, debtors, creditors' committees, trustees and receivers. In addition, Mr. Ahrens has represented business clients in the purchase and sale of assets of troubled companies. Finally, he has substantial experience with loan workout problems of troubled companies, representing both financial institutions and borrowers.

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Richard W. Brunette, Jr. - Partner - Los Angeles

Mr. Brunette specializes in Creditors' Rights, commercial litigation and business bankruptcy representing creditors, trustees, and creditors committees. Mr. Brunette has extensive experience in creditors rights litigation and appellate work. He has broad experience in business and real estate workouts involving various industries, including hospitality, technology companies, retailing and agribusiness. He lectures frequently on commercial law and bankruptcy issues.

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Ori Katz - Partner - San Francisco

Mr. Katz specializes in business bankruptcies and creditors' rights. He has represented debtors, individual creditors, creditors' committees, parties purchasing assets out of bankruptcy and parties involved in bankruptcy litigation. He has represented chapter 11 debtors in a wide range of industries, including real estate, retail, construction, biotech, telecommunications and internet businesses. He has also represented lenders in connection with loan workouts, restructurings and foreclosures.

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Seth (Byoung Soo) Kim - Partner - New York

Mr. Kim specializes in entertainment law, commercial law, bankruptcy, bank regulatory matters, and bank acquisition transactions.  Mr. Kim counsels both international and domestic clients in the areas of corporate reorganization and restructuring, domestic and cross-border insolvencies, and creditors' rights.  Mr. Kim has represented a wide array of entities in these areas, including major creditors, institutional lenders, bondholder committees, and distressed asset investors and purchasers in bankruptcy cases.

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Aaron J. Malo - Partner - Orange County

Mr. Malo's practice focuses on creditors' rights issues. He primarily represents lending institutions, financial services corporations, equipment lessors, landlords, and other creditors. Mr. Malo has extensive experience in all aspects of bankruptcy and workout proceedings. He has also served as lead trial counsel for significant jury and bench trials in state and federal courts. Mr. Malo teaches bankruptcy law at Golden Gate University's Orange County campus and frequently writes on creditors' rights matters.

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Kyle J. Mathews - Partner - Los Angeles

Mr. Mathews specializes in the area of workouts, restructuring and commercial lending, mainly representing financial institutions. His practice includes: problem loan workouts, restructurings, foreclosures and bankruptcies; sales and liquidations of assets; single lender and syndicated senior secured financing, acquisition and working capital loans.

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David J. McCarty - Partner - Los Angeles

Mr. McCarty specializes in bankruptcy, insolvency, creditors' rights and commercial law. He has represented a wide variety of constituencies in bankruptcy and troubled debt matters, including secured creditors, lessors, credit enhancers, indenture trustees, Chapter 11 and 7 trustees, debtors-in-possession, creditors' committees, and acquiring parties and their lenders.

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Joel R. Ohlgren - Of Counsel - Santa Barbara

Mr. Ohlgren's areas of practice are bankruptcy, creditors' rights, complex bankruptcy litigation, international insolvency issues and commercial law. He has represented various interests in a wide range of industries, including agriculture (growers, packers and distributors), building and construction, real estate, healthcare, petroleum and energy, shipping companies, hotel and hospitality, retail, wholesale and manufacturing businesses.

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Terrence V. Ponsford - Partner - San Francisco

Mr. Ponsford started his career as a trial lawyer. For approximately twenty-five years, he has practiced in the creditors' rights area representing, creditors, creditors' committees and debtors. He represented the FDIC as Receiver of United States National Bank in San Diego, California, between 1973 and 1983. Upon his return to San Francisco, he continued to practice in the bankruptcy and workout area. He has represented clients in all areas of insolvency and bankruptcy litigation. Additionally, Mr. Ponsford has worked extensively with clients in troubled real estate and commercial ventures, representing both purchasers and sellers of distressed property, banks and borrowers in workout situations, and generally giving advice to distressed entities. He has taught extensively regarding California secured real property law.

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Russell L. Reid, Jr. - Partner - New York

Mr. Reid's practice focuses on the areas of creditors' rights, bankruptcy, and corporate reorganization and refinance, with particular emphasis on default administration for trustees and servicers of securitized mortgagee trusts.  On behalf of debtors, creditors, committees, indenture trustees and loan servicers, he has developed and negotiated disclosure materials and plans of reorganization, and has prosecuted and defended litigation involving the automatic stay, cash collateral, debtor-in-possession financing, plan confirmation and claim disposition.

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Steven B. Sacks - Partner - San Francisco

Mr. Sacks is an experienced business trial lawyer with expertise in products liability, insurance coverage disputes, officer and director liability, creditors' rights issues, and breach of contract disputes. Recently, he successfully tried two cases to verdict before juries and received a favorable decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit reversing a judgment of over $5 million. In addition to his trial and appellate skills, Mr. Sacks has also resolved many cases through arbitration, appraisal and mediation proceedings.

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Edward F. Schiff - Partner - Washington D.C.

Mr. Schiff is a highly experienced, innovative business attorney who has been in practice for over thirty years. He assists publicly and privately held companies structure and manage complex transactions; advises entrepreneurs and investors on raising and investing capital; and aids in development of creative and effective financing techniques. Mr. Schiff handles acquisitions and divestitures, equity and debt restructurings, leveraged buy-outs, joint ventures and strategic partnerships for clients ranging from emerging businesses and commercial banks, to venture capital firms and institutional lenders.

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Carren B. Shulman - Partner - New York

Ms. Shulman focuses her practice on bankruptcy, commercial litigation, business reorganization and creditors’ rights, with an emphasis on representing secured and unsecured creditors in transactions in and out of bankruptcy both domestically and internationally.  She has represented debtors, committees, chapter 11 trustees, trade creditors and secured and unsecured lenders in bankruptcy and has advised corporate trustees in default administration. Ms. Shulman also has significant trial experience in commercial and employment litigation.

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Edward H. Tillinghast III - Partner - New York

Mr. Tillinghast specializes in corporate reorganizations and restructurings, cross-border insolvencies, creditors’ rights litigation, distressed mergers and acquisitions, advising distressed asset investors on high-yield investments and insolvency-related securitization opinions.  He advises clients in many jurisdictions throughout Asia, Australia, Europe, Russia, South America and the United States.  He has represented creditors, debtors, institutional lenders, bondholder committees and distressed asset investors in bankruptcy cases, out-of-court restructurings, and distressed asset sales in many industries, including automotive, aviation, financial services, food and food products, gaming, health care, high technology, infrastructure projects, manufacturing, mining, new media, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, publishing, real estate, retail, sporting goods, sports teams, steel, telecommunications and utilities.

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