Mr. Jordan A. Kroop

Bio

Jordan A. Kroop is an attorney with Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones in its New York office, where he represents debtors, creditors’ committees and acquirers in chapter 11 cases for publicly traded and privately held companies throughout the country. His client work spans dozens of industries and has included such prominent chapter 11 engagements such as representing Highland Capital, the Russian Tea Room and the NHL’s Arizona Coyotes as chapter 11 debtors; the creditors’ committee in Legacy Cares (one of the largest Arizona-based chapter 11 cases in history) and significant creditors (including the Boston Celtics and the Milwaukee Bucks) in chapter 11 restructurings and cross-border proceedings. Mr. Kroop also has represented debtor-sellers and strategic acquirers in chapter 11 assets sales in transactions totaling several billion dollars. The author of a major bankruptcy treatise, several other books and dozens of articles on bankruptcy topics (one of which earned the ABI Journal’s Publication Award), he teaches information privacy and advanced chapter 11 practice as an adjunct professor of law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, having also lectured on international commercial arbitration in Austria. Mr. Kroop is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America every year since 2009 (including being named as Best Lawyers’ Phoenix “Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law Lawyer of the Year” in 2017), and has been named a Super Lawyer every year since 2007 (including among its Southwest Top 50 for the last several years). A longtime ABI member he has co-chaired ABI’s Southwest Bankruptcy Conference for the last four years. Avvo.com ranks Mr. Kroop as “Superb” (10 out of 10), and he is rated AV-Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell. He received his A.B. magna cum laude in 1991 from Brown University and his J.D. in 1994 from the University of Virginia.