
Teddy Kapur, resident in the firm’s Los Angeles office, represents debtors, creditors’ committees, trustees, assignees, and asset purchasers in chapter 11 corporate bankruptcies, assignments for the benefit of creditors, and other out-of-court restructurings.
Teddy has played a leading role in cases that have been awarded “Mid-Size Company Turnaround of the Year” and “Large Transaction of the Year” by the Turnaround Management Association, and “Restructuring Deal of the Year” and “Reorganization of the Year Award” by The M&A Advisor.
Teddy’s professional achievements are widely recognized by leading publications. Most recently, he was named to The Lawdragon‘s list of the 500 Leading Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers. Every year for over a decade, Thomson Reuters has selected Mr. Kapur as a “Super Lawyer,” and the same publication recognized Teddy as a “Top 100: Southern California Super Lawyer.” Since 2018, he has been listed in Best Lawyers in America. The Los Angeles Business Journal has included Teddy in its list of the LA region’s “Most Influential Minority Lawyers,” as well as its list of “Leaders of Influence: Thriving in Their 40s.” Earlier in his career, Teddy received a number of “Top 40 Under 40” awards from the Daily Journal, The Recorder, The M&A Advisor, the Century City Bar Association, and the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association.
Prior to joining the firm, Teddy was a vice president at AIG SunAmerica Affordable Housing Partners. He also worked as an analyst in the investment banking division of Merrill Lynch & Co.
Teddy earned his J.D. from New York University School of Law, his Master in Public Administration from Harvard University, and his B.A., magna cum laude, from Rice University. During college, Teddy studied abroad for one year at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Education
- Rice University (B.A. magna cum laude 1999)
- London School of Economics and Political Science (1997-98)
- Harvard University (M.P.A. 2004)
- New York University School of Law (J.D. 2004)
Bar and Court Admissions
- Texas, 2004
- California, 2006
Clerkships
- W. Royal Furgeson (W.D. Texas 2004-05)
- Chapter 11 debtors in Kal Freight; Noble House Home Furnishings; Select Staffing; American Suzuki Motor Corporation; Ultura (Oceanside); CyberDefender; Gordian Medical (dba American Medical Technologies); Arlie & Company; Victor Valley Community Hospital; Heller Ehrman LLP; Z Gallerie; S&B Surgery Center; New Century Financial
- Creditors and creditors’ committees in Vital Pharmaceuticals; FTX Trading Ltd., Sports Authority, Naartjie Custom Kids; Adair County Hospital District; Homejoy (Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors), LLC; IPC International; Residential Capital; San Diego Hospice & Palliative Care Corporation; SSI Group Holding Corp. (Grandy’s and Souper Salad restaurant chains); Pure Beauty Salons & Boutiques; Circuit City; Hawaii Medical Center
- Chapter 11 and 7 trustees in Georges Marciano; Renaissance Surgical Arts at Newport; Galleria USA; Randall Blanchard
- Imagine LA, Chair of Board of Directors (2018 – 2022); Board of Directors (2015 – 2022)
- Los Angeles City College, Teacher (2017-2022)
- South Asian Network, Board of Directors (2018 – 2022)
- Anti-Defamation League, Los Angeles Regional Board Member (2019 – 2022)
- International Insolvency Institute, NextGen Executive Committee (2018)
- National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, Education Committee (2016 – 2017)
- National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, Co-Chair of Bankruptcy Restructuring and Creditors’/Debtors’ Rights Committee (2014 – 2016)
- South Asian Bar Association of Southern California, President (2012 – 2013)
- Sections 327 through 331—Recent Developments in the Law of Employment and Compensation of Bankruptcy Professionals 2012 Norton Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law
- Absence of Legislative History Obscures the Plain Meaning of Bankruptcy Code Section 503(b)(1)(A) Business Law Today, January 2011
- Land Use Regulation in Houston Contradicts the City’s Free Market Reputation Environmental Law Reporter, 2004
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