One of the Largest Bankruptcy and Insolvency Boutiques in Southern California

Golden Goodrich LLP combines the sophistication, experience and scholastic excellence of a large law firm with the efficient, high-energy, hands-on attitude and focus of a specialized boutique.

Golden Goodrich LLP

How It Came Together

Golden Goodrich LLP is a full-service bankruptcy and insolvency law firm serving clients throughout California. The firm’s attorneys represent bankruptcy trustees, receivers, debtors, creditors, creditor committees, and commercial litigants in state and federal courts.

Golden Goodrich LLP combines the sophistication, experience, and scholastic excellence of a large law firm with the efficient, high-energy, hands-on attitude and focus of a specialized boutique. For more than two decades, the firm has guided clients through some of Southern California’s most complex financial challenges — from bet-the-company Chapter 11 reorganizations and multimillion-dollar receiverships to high-stakes commercial litigation and out-of-court workouts.

The firm’s partners, Jeffrey I. Golden, David M. Goodrich, Jeannie Kim are consistently recognized as Super Lawyers and Best Lawyers in the field of bankruptcy and creditor-debtor rights. Mr. Golden, a founding partner, Receiver, Bankruptcy Trustee, and Examiner, serves as an adjunct professor of bankruptcy law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law and as co-Editor-in-Chief of the California Bankruptcy Journal. Mr. Goodrich is a certified bankruptcy law specialist, a member of the Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Panel of Trustees for the Central District of California, and a past president of both the Orange County Bankruptcy Forum and the California Bankruptcy Forum. Jeannie Kim, a partner based in San Francisco and Costa Mesa, has been recognized as a Super Lawyers "Rising Star" and was named to the American Bankruptcy Institute's inaugural "40 Under 40" class.

Whether you are a Fortune 500 company navigating a restructuring, a financial institution enforcing its rights, a municipality addressing fiscal distress, or an entrepreneur seeking practical counsel on creditors’ rights, Golden Goodrich LLP delivers the strategic insight and courtroom experience needed to achieve the right result.

Expertise & Experience

Practice Areas

Chapter 11 Reorganizations

Golden Goodrich LLP has extensive experience dealing with bet-the-company bankruptcy cases and have the ability to guide your executive team to the best possible outcome for your business.

Out of Court Restructurings & Workouts

Golden Goodrich LLP advises on debt workouts and financial restructuring, assignments for the benefit of creditors, and loans to financially distressed entities.

Trustees and Receiverships

Golden Goodrich LLP provides comprehensive counsel to fiduciaries in all phases of case administration, asset investigation and recovery, claim evaluation, and distribution.

Asset Sales and Aquisitions

Golden Goodrich advises clients on structuring and executing sales of businesses, real property, intellectual property, and other assets, whether as a going concern or through orderly liquidation.

Commercial Litigation

Golden Goodrich LLP handles adversary proceedings, contested matters, preference and fraudulent transfer actions, lender liability disputes, breach of fiduciary duty claims, contract disputes, and partnership and business dissolution matters.

Creditors' Committees

Golden Goodrich LLP advises committees on their fiduciary obligations, plan negotiations, asset valuations, the investigation of prepetition conduct, and the evaluation of proposed transactions.

Business

Golden Goodrich LLP advises owners, officers, and boards of directors on their rights and obligations, negotiates with creditors, and guides clients through the plan confirmation process.

Real Estate

Golden Goodrich LLP handles disputes involving commercial and residential properties, including lease disputes, foreclosure and lien issues, partition actions, and the sale of encumbered real property.
Expertise & Experience

Meet the Team

Kerry Moynihan

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Ryan W. Beall

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Ryan W. Beall

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Ryan W. Beall

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Michael Adele

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Anerio Altman

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Sara Tidd

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Ryan W. Beall

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Ryan W. Beall

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Ryan W. Beall

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Ryan W. Beall

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Ryan W. Beall

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Ryan W. Beall

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Ryan W. Beall

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Cara C. Murray

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Cynthia B. Meeker

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Kelly Adele

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Gabrielle Roosevelt

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Rachel Israel

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Our Resources

“Robust capitalism requires a system that allows for “second chances” and room for financial mistakes.”

Theodor “Ted” Albert, Jr.