Jane Kim

Jane Kim is a managing partner at Keller Benvenutti Kim LLP, a San Francisco-based corporate bankruptcy and restructuring boutique law firm, where she represents debtors in possession, distressed companies and other parties in both in-court and out-of-court situations. Her recent engagements include representing Trinitas Farming, LLC and 17 almond ranch operators in the Central Valley of California, and Shift Technologies, Inc., an omnichannel automobile retailer, in their chapter 11 cases in the Northern District of California. She also serves as bankruptcy co-counsel for Pacific Gas & Electric Co. in its chapter 11 case, the largest chapter 11 filing in the Northern District of California in over a decade, which emerged from bankruptcy in July 2020 through a confirmed, largely consensual plan of reorganization. Before moving to California and joining Keller Benvenutti Kim in 2014, Ms. Kim practiced in New York at Cleary Gottlieb for over a decade. She is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy and has been recognized as a leading lawyer by publications and organizations including Chambers USA, Super Lawyers, Benchmark Litigation California, and Lawdragon’s inaugural list of the 500 Leading U.S. Bankruptcy and Restructuring Lawyers. She also was selected to serve as a lawyer representative for the Northern District of California. Ms. Kim received her B.A. from Columbia College at Columbia University in 1999 and her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2002.