Richard Pachulski, resident in the firm’s Los Angeles office, is widely regarded as one of the preeminent corporate restructuring attorneys in America. He has been named an “Attorney of the Year” by American Lawyer Media’s Recorder, and has been lead counsel on several deals that have been recognized as “Deal of the Year” by The M&A Advisor, Turnaround & Workouts and Global M&A Network. During the past three years, in addition to working on several out-of-court workouts, Richard represented Amyris, Inc., Ruby Tuesday, Easterday Farms and Ranches, and Carbonlite in their chapter 11 proceedings, and the tort creditors’ committee of Boy Scouts of America. Recently, Richard was also lead counsel for Monster Beverage in its acquisition of Bang Energy out of chapter 11 with an estimated acquisition value of $400 million. Over Richard’s career, a sampling of his roles as lead debtor counsel include the corporate restructurings of American Suzuki Motor Corporation, Solynd
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- University of California at Los Angeles (B.A., summa cum laude, 1976)
- Stanford University (J.D. 1979)
- Phi Beta Kappa; Pi Gamma Mu
Bar and Court Admissions
- 1979, California
Clerkships
- Judicial extern, Robert M. Takasugi (C.D. Cal. 1978-79)
- Chapter 11 debtors in Kal Freight; White Eagle Asset Portfolio; Fuse Media; American Suzuki Motor Corporation; Highway Technologies; Peregrine Systems; Breed Technologies; Solyndra; Covad Communications Group, Commonwealth Equity Trust; Sizzler International; Toni Braxton; Mesa Air Group; MagnaChip Semiconductor; Yueting Jia; Ruby Tuesday; Easterday Farms and Easterday Ranches; Carbonlite
- Creditors’ committees in Woodbridge Group of Companies; Circuit City; First Executive Corporation; Northpoint Communications; Boy Scouts of America
- Ad hoc bondholders’ committee in Adelphia Communications
- Lehman Brothers in Palmdale Hills Property
- Trustees in Triad America Corporation and Ezri Namvar
- Creditor representaion in chapter 11 cryptocurrenty brokerage Voyager Digital
- Asset purchaser in Bang Energy
- Fellow, American College of Bankruptcy
- Member, Financial Lawyers Conference Board of Governors (1989-92)
- Coauthor, “Chapter 11 – The Bank of Last Resort,” 45 Business Lawyer 261 (1989)
- Coauthor, “Plan Wars – The Use of Chapter 11 to Coax Continued Financing From a Reluctant Lender,” 738 PLI/Comm. 7 (1996)
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