Kyra E. Andrassy, Esq.

Kyra E. Andrassy is a partner with Smiley Wang-Ekvall, LLP in Costa Mesa, Calif., where her practice focuses on the representation of companies in financial distress, creditors, creditors’ committees, receivers and assignees of assignments for the benefit of creditors. She is currently conference co-chair for ABI’s Bankruptcy Battleground West and the annual conference for the NationalAssociation of Federal Equity Receivers, and she is a director of both the Los Angeles BankruptcyForum and the Southern California chapter of the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation. Ms. Andrassy is a member of the Executive Committee of the Business LawSection of the California Lawyers Association. She served on the board of directors for the OrangeCounty Bankruptcy Forum from 2006 through 2009 and served as its president in 2009. She also served as the program chair of the Orange County Bar Association’s Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section in 2003, and as its section chair in 2004. Ms. Andrassy was recognized as a Southern California Rising Star in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2011 and has been recognized as a“Super Lawyer” by Los Angeles Magazine each year since 2012. She served a judicial externship to Hon. Barry Russell of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California in Spring1998 and from September 1998 until September 2000, and a judicial clerkship to Hon. John E.Ryan, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Central District of California and a member of the Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel. Ms. Andrassy received her undergraduate degree in political science from the University of California at San Diego in 1995 and her J.D. from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles in 1998, where she served as an editor of the Loyola Law Review.