Robyn Beth Sokol

Robyn B. Sokol is a partner with Leech Tishman Fuscaldo & Lampl LLC in Pasadena, Calif., and and a member of the firm’s Business Restructuring & Insolvency Practice Group. She also leads the firm’sCourt Appointed Trustee and Receivers Group and regularly advises clients on business reorganizations, creditors’ rights and bankruptcy law, and all related transactions and litigation. Ms. Sokol has served as lead counsel in scores of trials, evidentiary hearings and motions in bankruptcy and other courts throughout the U.S. Her work includes negotiating, drafting, analyzing and reviewing loan documents; real and personal property leases; purchase agreements; and licensing agreements. Ms. Sokol represents businesses in the manufacturing, marketing, retail, entertainment, finance, golf, hospitality, insurance, real estate, shipping and health care industries. She regularly represents financial institutions, corporations, creditors’ committees, chapter 7 and 11 trustees, and secured and unsecured creditors. She has successfully defended preference actions filed against various entities, including a national insurance company, publication house, manufacturers and a shipping company. As part of her comprehensive bankruptcy and creditors’ rights practice, she represents chapter 7 and 11 debtors, and counsels mid-sized corporations and individual debtor clients in reorganizations. Previously, Ms. Sokol clerked forHon. Robin Riblet in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California and served as a floating judicial law clerk for Judges Ahart, Lax, Lasarow, March and Zurzolo. She is a member of theState Bar of California, the Los Angeles County Bar Association and the Los Angeles Bankruptcy Fo-rum (for which she served as board member from 2016-19), and she is on the advisory board of ABI’sBankruptcy Battleground West program. Ms. Sokol received her B.S. cum laude in finance and real estate from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1986, where she was a member of Beta GammaSigma and the Golden Key National Honor Society, and her J.D. in 1991 from Boston University School of Law, where she was a member of the Defenders Clinical Program, a case and note editor for the Pro-bate Journal, and an advisor and judge for the Esdaile Moot Court Competition.