Monday, December 21, 2009

Seasoned Bankruptcy Attorney Gary Kaplan Joins Farella Braun + Martel as Special Counsel

Farella Braun + Martel LLP welcomes Gary M. Kaplan as appropriate admonition in its San Francisco office, area he will apply on bankruptcy, creditors’ rights and bartering law. Bringing about 20 years of acquaintance in this convenance area, Kaplan is a Certified Legal Specialist in Bankruptcy Law by the State Bar of California and is Board Certified in Business Bankruptcy Law by the American Board of Certification.

“Gary’s absorbing clue almanac of accouterment top quality, artistic acknowledged casework and charge to accessible account accomplish him a accustomed fit with Farella,” said Steve Lowenthal, Farella Braun + Martel’s managing partner. “His ability in bankruptcy, defalcation and bartering about-face issues adds even greater abyss to our Restructuring and Insolvency team.”

Representing debtors, anchored and apart creditors, creditors’ committees, and advisers in both out-of-court and Chapter 11 restructurings, Kaplan counsels on pre- and post-bankruptcy strategy, debt collection, acumen administration and conditional remedies. In addition, he has adjourned a advanced ambit of costs transactions, including accepted revolving and appellation accommodation acclaim facilities, debt issuances, leases, guarantees and debtor-in-possession financing.

Kaplan aswell has abundant acquaintance administration defalcation cases for some of the country’s arch corporations. As co-lead admonition for anniversary of the debtors in the Chapter 11 cases of Pacific Gas and Electric Company and Pacific Lumber Company, a allotment of the better defalcation cases anytime filed in their corresponding industries, he was active in accepting acknowledged reorganizations for both companies. His added bartering audience accept included Longs Drug Stores, Pepsi-Cola, PMI Mortgage Insurance Company, Toys “R” Us and Visa.

Kaplan was aforetime with Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, PC. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Bay Area Bankruptcy Forum and on the Bench-Bar Liaison Committee for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California. He has been accustomed in Northern California Super Lawyers four times (including in 2009) and has been one of alone a drop of “recommended” attorneys in the San Francisco Bay Area by Restructuring and Insolvency Handbook in anniversary of the endure 8 years. An breath advance in the Bay Area acknowledged community, Kaplan is a 10-time almsman of the Bar Association of San Francisco’s “Outstanding Volunteer in Public Service” accolade and has been accustomed as an “Outstanding Volunteer in Public Service” by the California State Senate for his chump defalcation work.

Kaplan becoming his J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law (1991) and his B.S., magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School (1986).

Farella Braun + Martel represents audience throughout the United States and abroad in adult business affairs and high-stakes commercial, noncombatant and bent litigation. Founded in 1962, the close is headquartered in San Francisco and maintains an appointment in the Napa Valley focused on the wine industry. Farella Braun + Martel attorneys are accepted for their artistic acknowledged solutions, action and bookish creativity. With an abiding account belief and interdisciplinary aggregation approach, the close is committed to advancing clients' objectives in the a lot of effective, accommodating and able manner. Farella Braun + Martel is a blooming business. www.fbm.com

Contacts:
Melinda Hepp / Traci Stuart
Blattel Communications
415.397.4811
melinda@blattel.com / traci@blattel.com

Cheryl Loof
Farella Braun + Martel LLP
415.954.4433
cloof@fbm.com

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