Jeffrey K. Garfinkle

Jeffrey K. Garfinkle is a shareholder with Buchalter, PC in Irvine, Calif., and Seattle. His primary practice involves the representation of secured and unsecured creditors, creditors’ committees, trustees, equity receivers, debtors, and other parties in interest in a variety of bankruptcy, restructuring cases and collection matters, including out-of-court workouts. He also specializes in matters pertaining to Articles 2 and 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code and in representing purchasers of assets from bankrupt companies and financially troubled companies. Mr. Garfinkle is regarded as one of the nation’s leading health care and pharmaceutical insolvency attorneys. For more than 20 years, he has served as primaryU.S. insolvency, bankruptcy and collections counsel to McKesson, the world’s largest health care corporation. He currently represents McKesson in several opiate-related bankruptcy and restructuring cases, including Purdue Pharma and Mallinckrodt, and he has represented committees, debtors, creditors and other parties in dozens of other health care bankruptcy cases. Mr. Garfinkle has been recognized TheBest Lawyers in America for 2021 and 2022 in the areas of Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights and Insolvency and Reorganization Law. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the FinancialLawyers Conference and co-chairs ABI’s Commercial and Regulatory Law Committee. Mr. Garfinkle worked pro bono on the successful chapter 11 reorganization of the San Diego Symphony, during which he devoted 1,000 hours and was awarded an honorary lifetime membership in the American Federation of Musicians. For the last decade, he has served as an advisor to the law student-run Emory BankruptcyDevelopments Journal. Mr. Buchalter previously spent 12 years with an international law firm and a one-year clerkship with Hon. Louise DeCarl Adler in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of California. In addition to practicing before the U.S. Supreme Court, he has argued appeals in fiveFederal Courts of Appeals and handled bankruptcy matters in dozens of districts throughout the U.S.Mr. Garfinkle received his B.A. in 1987 from the University of Florida and his J.D. in 1990 from EmoryUniversity School of Law.