Shirley S. Cho

Shirley S. Cho is an attorney with Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones in Los Angeles has more than 20years’ experience advising debtors, creditors’ committees, creditors and purchasers. She has represented some of the largest companies in America to restructure billions of dollars of debt, acquirers of assets out of bankruptcy, and dozens of committees of unsecured creditors across a variety of industries. Ms. Cho also has significant experience representing U.S. debtors involved in cross-border proceedings and has also represented foreign creditors, including Fortune Global top 20 companies, to successfully pursue significant claims in chapter 11. She also has served as an expert on U.S. insolvency law in foreign proceedings. An active member of the community, Ms. Cho was recently appointed to the national Council of Korean Americans and has also served as co-chair of ABI’s Bankruptcy Battleground West program, the Annual Insolvency Restructuring Advisors Annual Conference, and on the board of trustees of her law school and Asian Americans Advancing Justice-LA. She has won numerous accolades, including being named as one of The Best Lawyers in America every year since 2016 and the Daily Journal’s Top100 Women Lawyers in 2019. Ms. Cho has written and lectured extensively on U.S. bankruptcy law.She began her career as a law clerk for Hon. John E. Ryan of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the CentralDistrict of California. Ms. Cho is admitted to practice in California and New York. She received her B.A. magna cum laude in 1994 from the University of California, Berkeley and her J.D. in 1997 from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.