Andrew W. Caine

Andrew W. Caine chairs Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones’s Post-Confirmation Practice Group in Los Angeles, where he oversees the entire spectrum of claims and avoidance litigation for debtors, creditors’ committees, trustees, liquidation or post-confirmation trusts, and defendants, from “mega cases” to smaller individual matters. He also helped develop proprietary avoidance and preference claim analysis software and spends considerable time as “general counsel,” assisting in the administration of post- confirmation estate/corporate wind-downs, and representing individuals and business entities in avoid- ance and claims-litigation defense. Mr. Caine has lead responsibility in litigation concerning a variety of business, bankruptcy and commercial law issues, as well as the representation of debtors, trustees, creditors and committees in chapter 11 reorganization cases. He handles matters in state and federal courts, with an emphasis on disputes tried in bankruptcy court, including contested reorganization mat- ters. Mr. Caine has written numerous articles and often lectures nationally on bankruptcy and litigation, and he is a Past President and former Chair and Vice President-Education of ABI. He is a member of the Registry of Mediators for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, and a former member of the Los Angeles Superior Court panel of business law arbitrators. Mr. Caine holds an AV-Preeminent Peer Rating from Martindale-Hubbell and has been named a “Super Lawyer” in the field of Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights every year since 2007 in a peer survey conducted by Law & Politics and the publishers of Los Angeles magazine. He also was named in The Best Lawyers in America in 2017 in the practice area of Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law. Mr. Caine received his B.A. from Northwestern University and his J.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles, where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa and was a member of the Mortar Board.