Jane Kim

Jane Kim is a managing partner at Keller Benvenutti Kim LLP, a San Francisco-based corporate bankruptcy and restructuring boutique law firm, where she represents debtors in possession, distressed companies and other parties in both in-court and out-of-court situations. Her recent engagements include representing Trinitas Farming, LLC and 17 almond ranch operators in the Central Valley of California, and Shift Technologies, Inc., an omnichannel automobile retailer, in their chapter 11 cases in the Northern District of California. She also serves as bankruptcy co-counsel for Pacific Gas & Electric Co. in its chapter 11 case, the largest chapter 11 filing in the Northern District of California in over a decade, which emerged from bankruptcy in July 2020 through a confirmed, largely consensual plan of reorganization. Before moving to California and joining Keller Benvenutti Kim in 2014, Ms. Kim practiced in New York at a large international law firm for over a decade. She is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy and has been recognized as a leading lawyer by publications and organizations, including Chambers USA. She was named “Lawyer of the Year” in the 2023 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and has been included on The Global M&A Network’s Annual Top 100 Restructuring Professionals and the Daily Journal’s list of “Top Bankruptcy Lawyers.” Ms. Kim is co-chair of ABI’s Asset Sales Committee and a frequent speaker at ABI conferences and elsewhere on a wide range of bankruptcy-related subjects, including the intersection of bankruptcy and arbitration, mass torts bankruptcy cases, asset sales and cross-border insolvency issues. She received her B.A. from Columbia College at Columbia University in 1999 and her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2002.