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Jeffrey Garfinkle is a Shareholder for the Firm's Orange County office. Mr. Garfinkle is a member of the Firm's Insolvency and the Bank and Finance Practice Groups. Mr. Garfinkle's practice encompasses the representation of financial institutions, borrowers and other parties in a variety of debt financing transactions--including syndicated and single-bank credit lines, senior, mezzanine and subordinated debt financings, aircraft finance, acquisition financings, asset securitization, factoring, public note issuance and private placements such as Rule 144A transactions, problem credit workouts, bankruptcy, commercial transactions including those governed by the UCC, and real estate transactions.
Mr. Garfinkle also has extensive experience in international transactions, workouts, and insolvencies as well as mergers, divestitures and asset acquisitions particularly from or by bankrupt or financially distressed companies. His recent transactions include over $2.0 billion in mergers and acquisitions and the successful reorganization of a bankrupt Asian airline.
From 1991 through 2003, Mr. Garfinkle was an Associate then Senior Counsel with Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP. During 1990 and 1991, Mr. Garfinkle served as law clerk to the Honorable Louise DeCarl Adler, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of California.
Mr. Garfinkle is admitted to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals as well as all United States District Courts in California. He is a member of the American Bar Association, American Bankruptcy Institute, Financial Lawyers Conference and the California Bankruptcy Forum.
Mr. Garfinkle received his B.A. degree in History from the University of Florida in 1987 and earned his J.D. degree in 1990 from Emory University School of Law.
Areas of Practice
Financial Solutions
Bank and Finance
Bankruptcy
Insolvency
Workouts
Bar Admissions
California
U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
U.S. District Court Southern District of California
U.S. District Court Central District of California
U.S. District Court Northern District of California
U.S. District Court Eastern District of California | 