Jordan A. Kroop

Jordan A. Kroop

New York
212.561.7700

Jordan Kroop, resident in Arizona and the firm’s New York office, has cultivated a national reputation over a 30-year career representing primarily debtors, creditors’ committees, and acquirers in chapter 11 cases for publicly traded and privately held companies throughout the country. Jordan’s work for clients spans dozens of industries and has included such prominent chapter 11 engagements such as representing Highland Capital, the Russian Tea Room, and the NHL’s Arizona Coyotes as chapter 11 debtors, the creditors’ committee in Legacy Cares (one of the largest Arizona-based chapter 11 cases in history) and significant creditors (including the Boston Celtics and the Milwaukee Bucks) in chapter 11 restructurings and crossborder proceedings. Jordan has also represented debtor-sellers and strategic acquirers in chapter 11 assets sales in transactions totaling several billion dollars. The author of a major bankruptcy treatise, several other books, and dozens of articles on bankruptcy topics (one of which earned the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal’s Publication Award), Jordan teaches information privacy and advance chapter 11 practice as an adjunct professor of law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, having also lectured on international commercial arbitration in Austria. Jordan was elected as a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, has been listed in Best Lawyers in America every year since 2009 (including being named as Best Lawyers’ Phoenix “Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law Lawyer of the Year” in 2017), and has been named a Super Lawyer every year since 2007 (including their Southwest Top 50 for the last several years). A long-time member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, Jordan has co-chaired the ABI’s Southwest Conference for the last four years. Avvo.com ranks Jordan “Superb” (10 out of 10) and Martindale-Hubbell has granted Jordan an AV Preeminent Peer Rating, its highest recognition for ethical standards and legal ability. Jordan holds an undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, from Brown University (1991) and a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law (1994).

Credentials

Education

  • Brown University (A.B., magna cum laude, 1991)
  • University of Virginia School of Law (J.D. 1994)

Bar and Court Admissions

  • 1998, Arizona
  • 1995, New York

Professional Affiliations

  • Fellow, American College of Bankruptcy
  • Co-chair, American Bankruptcy Institute Southwest Conference (2019-present)

Programs & Lectures

Adjunct professor of law, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University (2013-present); Lecturer, University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law in Salzburg, Austria (2010, 2011); Faculty, American Bankruptcy Institute Litigation Skills Workshop (2002-2014)

Publications

  • Coauthor, Bankruptcy Litigation and Practice: A Practitioner’s Guide (Aspen Law & Business: 2d ed., 1998; 3d ed., 2000; Wolters Kluwer Law & Business: 4th ed. 2007-present)
  • Coauthor, Executive Guide to Corporate Bankruptcy (Beard Books, 2d ed. 2010, 1st ed. 2001)
  • Coauthor, Pre-Bankruptcy Planning for the Commercial Reorganization (American Bankruptcy Institute, 2d ed. 2008)
  • Coauthor, “Chapter 11 Cases Involving Professional Sports Franchises,” in Collier Guide to Chapter 11 (LexisNexis 2011, 2012, 2013)
  • Author, “Disallowed Claims and Feasibility: A Precaution Worth Taking,” 26:5 ABI Journal 28 (June 2007) (reprinted with permission of the American Bankruptcy Institute)
  • Author, “Vaulting Past Recharacterization and Equitable Subordination,” ABI Journal (Oct. 2004)
  • Author, “Of Shoes and Fees: When Advice to Creditors is Advice to the Debtor,” ABI Journal (Apr. 2005)
  • Author, “Vaulting Past Recharacterization and Equitable Subordination,” ABI Journal (Oct. 2004)
  • Author, “Bagel v. Chicken; Debtor v. Debtor—Can Anyone Get a Home Field Advantage?” ABI Journal (Apr. 2003)
  • Author, “Putting the Brakes on Federal Court Jurisdiction,” ABI Journal (June 2002)
  • Author, “A Ponzi Scheme and a ‘Pointless Technicality'” ABI Journal (Mar. 2002)
  • Author, “Item! Debbie Reynolds To Play Fox, Guard Hen House,” ABI Journal (Oct. 2001)
  • Author, “Baseball and the ‘Abecedarian Prerequisite’ to Substantive Consolidation,” ABI Journal (Dec 2000)
  • Author, “A Trust Grows in Brooklyn,” ABI Journal (June 2000)
  • Author, “Urgent Message To the Supreme Court: ‘Just Do It,’” 34 Bankruptcy Court Decisions Weekly News & Comments (LRP May 25, 1999)
  • Coauthor, “Third-Party Litigation Funding: Where Do We Go Now?” 37:3 ABI Journal 18 (March 2018) (reprinted with permission of the American Bankruptcy Institute)
  • Coauthor, “Of Bunnies and Moneys: Fixing Trustee Repayment Under § 326(a),” 33:6 ABI Journal 44 (June 2014) (reprinted with permission of the American Bankruptcy Institute)
  • Coauthor, “A Cautionary Tale of US-Mexican Bankruptcy Dealings,” Arizona Business Journal (Apr 2007)
  • Coauthor, “Revisiting Retentions for Professional Preferences,” ABI Journal (Dec. 2002)
  • Coauthor, “Urgent Message To the Supreme Court: ‘Just Do It,'” 34 Bankruptcy Court Decisions Weekly News & Comments (LRP May 25, 1999)