Andrew W. Caine

Andy Caine resides in the firm’s Los Angeles office, but practices in cases across the country. His practice focuses primarily on litigation in various bankruptcy contexts, representing debtors, trustees, creditors, and creditors' committees in chapter 11 reorganization cases. He handles matters in state and federal courts, with an emphasis on disputes tried in bankruptcy court, including contested reorganization matters. Andy’s practice in recent years has focused on the representation of survivor creditor committees in bankruptcy cases prompted by numerous sexual abuse claims, including the Archdioceses of New Orleans and San Francisco.

In addition, Andy is the chair of the firm’s postconfirmation practice group, overseeing the entire spectrum of claims and avoidance litigation for debtors, creditors' committees, trustees, liquidation or postconfirmation trusts, and defendants, from “mega cases” to smaller, individual matters. He has spent considerable time as “general counsel” to liquidating trustees in the administration of post-confirmation estates.

Andy brings an experienced, responsive approach to all such disputes that might result in litigation. He has written numerous articles and often lectures nationally on bankruptcy and litigation, and is a past president and former chair of the American Bankruptcy Institute, the world's largest organization of insolvency professionals, with over 12,000 members. He is a member of the Registry of Mediators for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, and a former member of the Los Angeles Superior Court panel of business law arbitrators. He holds an AV Preeminent Peer Rating, Martindale-Hubbell's highest rating for ethical standards and legal ability and has been named a "Super Lawyer" in the field of Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights every year since 2007 in a peer survey conducted by Law & Politics and the publishers of Los Angeles magazine, an honor bestowed on only 5% of Southern California attorneys. He has been named to Best Lawyers in America every year since the 2016 edition for the practice area of Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law.

Andy is a graduate of Northwestern University and received his J.D. from UCLA.

Representations

• Chapter 11 debtors in Murray, Inc.; Fleming Distribution; Breed Technologies; AmeriServe Food Distribution; HomePlace of America, Inacom Corporation; TWA
• Creditors' committee in Circuit City Stores; CB Holding Corporation (fka Charlie Brown's); Madison Associates, fka Pannell Kerr Foster
• Litigation: Hilton Hotels and Bass Hotels

Professional Affiliations

• Member, Registry of Mediators for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware
• Chair, 2004-2005, American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI)
• President, 2002-2003, ABI
• Vice President of Education, 1999-2001, ABI
• Associate editor, American Bankruptcy Institute Journal
• Executive editor, ABI Website Editorial Board

News

Publications

• Co-Author, "The Influence of Outcomes and Procedures on Formal Leaders," 41 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (No. 4 1981)

Events