Mr. Ori Katz

Ori Katz is a partner in the Finance and Bankruptcy Practice Group of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter &Hampton LLP in San Francisco, where he specializes in business bankruptcies and other aspects of insolvency law. He has represented debtors, creditors, creditors? committees, parties purchasing assets out of bankruptcy and parties involved in bankruptcy litigation, and he has successfully reorganized companies in a wide range of industries, including real estate, retail, construction, biotech, telecommunications, media and the Internet. Mr. Katz has represented lenders and loan servicers in connection with receiverships, loan workouts, restructurings, foreclosures and borrower bankruptcies, and has acted as receivership counsel in connection with various appointments. He is a frequent speaker on bankruptcyand insolvency law matters, and he taught a seminar on business bankruptcy and corporate reorganiza-tion at UC Hastings College of the Law in 2013 and 2014. Mr. Katz is currently a director of the BayArea Bankruptcy Forum and a past co-chair of the Insolvency Law Conference?s California BankruptcyForum. He is also a member of the State Bar of California Insolvency Law Committee?s BusinessLaw Section, and he sits on the advisory board of ABI?s Southwest Bankruptcy Conference. Mr. Katz has been listed in Chambers and Partners, the Legal 500 and Northern California Super Lawyers. He received his B.A. in 1996 from the University of California, Santa Barbara and his J.D. from BostonUniversity School of Law in 2000.