Teddy M. Kapur

Teddy M. Kapur is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP, the nation’s leading corporate restructuring boutique. He represents debtors, creditors’ committees, trustees, assignees, and asset purchasers in chapter 11 corporate bankruptcies, chapter 9 municipal bankruptcies, assignments for the benefit of creditors, and other out-of-court restructurings.

Mr. Kapur has been named to The Lawdragon's list of the 500 Leading Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers. In 2021, the Los Angeles Business Journal named Mr. Kapur to its annual "Leaders of Influence: Thriving in Their 40s" list, which recognizes leading professionals in the region between the ages of 40 and 49 who are demonstrating success inside business and throughout their communities. In 2020, Thomson Reuters recognized Mr. Kapur as a "Top 100: Southern California Super Lawyer” and from 2015 to 2023, the same publication selected him as a “Super Lawyer,” an honor bestowed on only 5% of Southern California attorneys. In 2019, the Los Angeles Business Journal named Mr. Kapur to its list of the LA region's “Most Influential Minority Lawyers.” From 2018 through 2022, Mr. Kapur was also listed in Best Lawyers in America.

In 2016, the Daily Journal selected Mr. Kapur to its “Top 40 Under 40,” an annual list of leading California lawyers under age 40. In 2014, the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association recognized Mr. Kapur as one of the “Best Lawyers Under 40.” In addition, The M&A Advisor awarded Mr. Kapur the “40 Under 40 Recognition Award,” and The Recorder named Mr. Kapur a “Lawyer on the Fast Track,” identifying him as among fifty attorneys in California “whose early accomplishments indicate they will be tomorrow’s top lawyers and leaders.”

Mr. Kapur has played an integral role in cases that have been awarded the “Mid-Size Company Turnaround of the Year” by the Turnaround Management Association and “Reorganization of the Year Award” by The M&A Advisor. 

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Kapur was a vice president at AIG SunAmerica Affordable Housing Partners, then one of the nation’s largest investors in affordable multifamily housing. He also worked as an analyst in the investment banking division of Merrill Lynch & Co.

Mr. Kapur serves as a mentor and the chair of the board of directors of the nonprofit organization Imagine LA, which facilitates a team mentorship program to help families permanently exit homelessness and poverty. Mr. Kapur also is a professor at Los Angeles City College.

Mr. Kapur earned his J.D. from New York University School of Law, where he was an articles & notes editor for the NYU School of Law Journal of Legislation and Public Policy. He earned his Master in Public Administration from Harvard University, and his B.A., magna cum laude, from Rice University. Mr. Kapur also studied abroad for one year at the London School of Economics and Political Science. 

Mr. Kapur is admitted to practice in California and Texas (inactive).

Representations

• Chapter 11 debtors in 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' committees in 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

Professional Affiliations

• Imagine LA, Chair of Board of Directors (2018 – present); Board of Directors (2015 – present)
• South Asian Network, Board of Directors (2018 – present); Advisory Board (2012 – 2016)
• Anti-Defamation League, Los Angeles Regional Board Member and Co-Chair of the LA For Good Steering Committee (2019 – present)
• 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)

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