Mr. Paul R. Glassman

Paul R. Glassman is a shareholder with Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, P.C. in Santa Monica Calif.,where he chairs the firm?s Business Reorganization and Financial Restructuring Group. His practice focuses on complex corporate and municipal reorganizations, workouts, financings, distressed M&A and related litigation, with particular emphasis in the municipal, media/technology, real estate, healthcare and retail sectors. He has represented numerous debtors, secured creditors, committees, bidders and landlords in various high-profile real estate and hotel cases. Mr. Glassman?s experience spans a number of landmark bankruptcy cases, including the City of San Bernardino, Calif., chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy case (lead debtor?s counsel), the Orange County, Calif., chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy case(lead counsel for the official subcommittee of Orange County Cities and the City of Irvine and later theCounty), and a number of significant out-of-court restructurings, including a major apartment portfolio(lead counsel for a BlackRock fund as creditor) and of a major hotel REIT (lead counsel for the debtor).He has lectured extensively and authored numerous articles in various leading publications, including the Business Lawyer, the American Bankruptcy Law Journal, the ABI Journal, The Norton Bankruptcy Advisor and the Thomson Reuters Aspatore publication. Mr. Glassman received his B.A. magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa and his M.A. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and his J.D.from Stanford Law School, where he was a member of its law review. He clerked for U.S. BankruptcyJudge Mariana R. Pfaelzer of the Central District of California from 1978-79.