Angelina Engeng Lim

Angelina E. Lim is a partner with Johnson Pope Ruppel & Burns, LLP’s Creditor/Debtor Rights Department in Tampa, Fla., where she handles all aspects of bankruptcy representation, such as creditors’ rights, debtors’ rights, chapter 11s, subchapter Vs, complex chapter 7s, foreclosure defense and prosecution, and other state court insolvency matters, including receiverships and assignments for the benefit of creditors. She has represented debtors, creditors, creditors’ committees, assignees, assignors, chapter 7 and 11 trustees, and worked with all types, from individuals to large corporations and banking institutions. Previously, Ms. Lim practiced in New York with Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson and Dewey Ballantine, LLP, and she clerked for Bankruptcy Judges Michael G. Williamson in Tampa, Fla., and Cornelius Blackshear in the Southern District of New York. She is a member of the Florida, New York and New Jersey Bars, and she is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Middle and Southern Districts of Florida, the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the District of New Jersey. Ms. Lim is a member of IWIRC, ABI, and the Asian Pacific American, Clearwater and Tampa Bay Bankruptcy Bar Associations, and she has been listed as one of Florida’s Legal Elite by Florida Trend magazine for many years. In 2021, she received a Pro Bono Award from the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Pro Bono Committee. Ms. Lim received her B.S. in 1985 from the University of Southern California and her J.D. in 1993 with high honors from Rutgers University Law School, where she was admitted to the Order of the Coif and served as executive editor of the Women’s Rights Law Reporter