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JohnBae

Partner

Focus Areas

John’s clients include:

  • Debtors in chapter 11 restructurings and liquidations.
  • Debtors and affiliated companies in restructurings to address asbestos liability.
  • Companies in out of court restructurings to address asbestos and other mass tort liabilities.
  • Companies in defending against fraudulent conveyance and preference claims.
  • Companies and insurers in mass tort-driven chapter 11 cases.
  • Distressed real estate investment funds in acquisitions of commercial real estate under section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code.
  • Boards of directors of financially distressed companies.
  • Official committees of unsecured creditors and individual members of committees in large chapter 11 cases.
  • Administrators of foreign companies in insolvency proceedings.
  • Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2024 and 2025 for Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
  • Selected to New York Metro Super Lawyers list, 2007-2024

Professional Activities

  • Adjunct professor of Law, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University
  • Inaugural inductee into the Hall of Fame at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University

Education

  • Hofstra University, J.D., 1989,

    Notes & Comments editor, Hofstra Law Review

  • State University of New York at Albany, B.A., 1986

Bar Admissions

  • New York

Court Admissions

  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
  • U.S. Supreme Court

Languages

  • Korean