Jeannie Kim is a seasoned insolvency and restructuring attorney with more than 15 years of experience. Her practice encompasses the full life cycle of business reorganizations and insolvency proceedings. Based in San Francisco and Costa Mesa, California, Ms. Kim represents corporate debtors-in-possession, official committees of unsecured creditors, chapter 11 and chapter 7 trustees, asset purchasers, secured and unsecured creditors, and other fiduciaries in all aspects of complex chapter 11 cases, related litigation, state and federal receivership cases, state insolvency proceedings, and out-of-court workouts. She also regularly counsels financial institutions, technology companies, commercial landlords, and vendors on remedies enforcement and strategic options when counterparties face financial distress.

Ms. Kim provides general legal counsel to commercial clients in a range of industries including technology, commercial leasing, entertainment, retail, hospitality, manufacturing and distribution, consumer products, alternative energy, mining, aviation, and real estate development. Having navigated every phase of financial distress, Ms. Kim brings a depth and breadth of practice that translates to direct partner engagement, nimble case strategy, and a commitment to delivering efficient, high-impact results for clients facing their most challenging circumstances.

Ms. Kim received her J.D. from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles in 2009, where she was a Dean’s Scholar. She also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in International Political Thought from the University of St. Andrews and a B.A. in History from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was inducted into Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society and received the UCLA President’s Washington Scholarship for Public Policy Research. Ms. Kim served as Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Alan Jaroslovsky and the Honorable Thomas E. Carlson (Recalled Judge) of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California, and to the Honorable Deborah J. Saltzman of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California.

Ms. Kim has been recognized as a Super Lawyers Northern California “Rising Star” (2018–2020) and Southern California “Rising Star” (2013–2016), was named one of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association’s “Best Lawyers Under 40” (2018), and was selected to the American Bankruptcy Institute’s inaugural “40 Under 40” class (2017). She was also a Rising Star Semi-Finalist of the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (2017).

Ms. Kim is deeply committed to the insolvency and restructuring community and has held leadership positions across numerous professional organizations. She serves as President of the Bay Area Bankruptcy Forum (2025–2026) and has served as Co-Chair of the Annual Insolvency Conference for the California Bankruptcy Forum, Co-Chair of the Bench-Bar Liaison Committee for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California, and an Advisory Board Member for the American Bankruptcy Institute’s Southwest Bankruptcy Conference. Ms. Kim also serves as Network of Women Chair for the Turnaround Management Association’s Northern California Chapter and previously served as the 25th President of the Orange County Asian American Bar Association (2018–2019).

Ms. Kim is a frequent speaker and author on insolvency-related topics, with articles published in the Journal of Corporate Renewal and The Licensing Journal, and has served as Guest Editor of the Journal of Corporate Renewal. She is admitted to the State Bar of California, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the United States District Courts for the Central, Northern, Southern, and Eastern Districts of California.