Aram Ordubegian

Aram Ordubegian is a partner with Arent Fox LLP in Los Angeles and chairs the firm’s Cannabis Industry Practice Group. He also is West Coast Team Leader of the firm’s Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Group. Mr. Ordubegian has broad-based reorganization and bankruptcy litigation and appellate experience in a wide area of insolvency matters from various perspectives, including representation of businesses and high-net-worth individuals facing financial distress, purchasers of assets, individual and corporate creditors, creditors’ committees, trustees, and parties to out-of-court workout transactions with debtors before, during and after bankruptcies. He has advised businesses in connection with debt-restructuring, securitization, trust formation, acquisitions, divestitures and wind-downs in connection with financially distressed assets, and he has advised corporations, limited liability companies and partnerships on creditors’ rights, governance and control issues. Mr. Ordubegian has represented a variety of high-income individuals, including business executives and insiders of insolvent corporations, real estate developers, physicians, and entertainment and sports industry members, in their pre-bankruptcy workout negotiations with creditors. Prior to joining Arent Fox, he was a partner at the bankruptcy boutique firm of Weinstein, Weiss & Ordubegian, LLP in Los Angeles, where he had practiced since 2000. From 1996-2000, he was an associate at Shapiro & Miles LLP (now Miles & Bauer LLP) of Costa Mesa, Calif., where he represented primarily secured creditors in bankruptcy cases. Mr. Ordubegian received his B.A. from California State University at Northridge and his J.D. from Loyola Law School.