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Lee R. Bogdanoff is a member and co-manager of KTBS. Mr. Bogdanoff graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Davis, where he was a Regent Scholar, with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Political Science. He graduated, Order of the Coif, from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley in 1985. He served as law clerk to the Honorable David Thompson, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Court, from 1985 to 1986.
Mr. Bogdanoff's practice includes representation of debtors in and out-of-court, creditors' committees (bondholder, trade), secured creditors (including debtor in possession lenders) and acquirers of assets and debt positions. He has served as lead counsel in some of the largest chapter 11 cases pending at the time. For example, he successfully reorganized Dolco Packaging Corporation (a publicly held manufacturer), Liquor Barn (a publicly held retail chain), First Executive Corporation (a publicly held parent of Executive Life), Merksamer Jewelers (a large retail jewelry chain), DEP Corporation (a publicly held manufacturer), Westmoreland Coal Company (a publicly held energy company), with Mr. Tuchin, Barry's Jewelers (a publicly held jewelry chain), Matthews Studio Equipment Group (production equipment for the entertainment industry), Outsource International (temporary employment services), Sun World International (farming operations), Anacomp, Inc. (information, document storage and retrieval technology company), and Custom Food Products (specialty meat products). Mr. Bogdanoff was one of the primary attorneys representing Orange County, California in its Chapter 9 bankruptcy. His recent creditors' committee practice includes unsecured and secured bondholder groups in Pliant Corporation, Performance Transportation, ICO Global, Quokka Sports, Inc., ZiLOG, Inc. and National Energy & Gas Transmission, Inc.
Mr. Bogdanoff has represented many acquirers, including Twentieth Century Fox, in connection with a variety of acquisitions (including the purchase of assets from Carolco and Marvel) and the GAP. He also represented the management team in connection with a management-led buyout of NorthFace in the Odyssey cases. His lender representations include Tennenbaum Capital Partners, LLC and Ableco Finance LLC.
Mr. Bogdanoff is a member of the Board of Directors of the Financial Lawyers Conference of Los Angeles. Mr. Bogdanoff wrote the seminal article on asset sales in bankruptcy (published in the Business Lawyer) and his article regarding insolvency analysis was published in the Distressed Business & Real Estate Newsletter. Mr. Bogdanoff frequently lectures on bankruptcy-related topics. He has participated on panels for the American Bar Association, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the State Bar of California, and the Financial Lawyers Conference of Los Angeles
Mr. Bogdanoff is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy and was named one of the Outstanding Young Bankruptcy Lawyers of the Year in 2000 by Turnarounds and Workouts. He was also named in the K&A Restructuring Register as one of America's top 75 restructuring lawyers and one of the top 16 restructuring lawyers in California, the 2007 Century City Bankruptcy Lawyer of the Year, and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America®, Chambers USA and Who's Who Legal (Insolvency & Restructuring), among other honors. | 