Mr. Thomas E. Patterson

Thomas E. Patterson is a partner with KTBS Law LLP in Los Angeles. He has represented debtors, creditors? committees and secured creditors in many large chapter 11 cases, and has also been involved in many significant insurer insolvency matters in California. Mr. Patterson has represented many chapter 11 debtors, including Brotman Medical Center, the developer of the Lake Las Vegas Resort and Development, Thorpe Insulation Co. (special appellate counsel in connection with a plan proposed under § 524(g) of the Bankruptcy Code), Imagyn Medical Technologies Inc., Aquarius Promotional Enterprises Inc. and Cool Fuel Incorporated. He also has extensive experience in representing secured creditors and the lenders, and has represented many committees. Mr. Patterson is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy and has participated extensively in continuing education panels for the American Law Institute, Financial Lawyers Conference, ABI, the Los Angeles County Bar Association and other organizations. Mr. Patterson was named the 2011 Century City Bankruptcy Attorney of the year and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and Chambers USA, among other honors. He has served as secretary (2004-05), vice president and seminar coordinator (2005-06), president (2006-07) and member of the board of governors (1998-2001, 2003-present) of the Financial Lawyers Conference, and has been a member of the Debtor-Creditor Relations Committee of the Business Law Section of the California State Bar (1992-95) and of the Bankruptcy Subcommittee of the Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Committee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association (1994-97). He is the author of ?Current Issues Involving Adequate Protection in Real Estate Bankruptcies,? 22 California Bankruptcy Journal 75 (1994), and is a contributing author to Collier on Bankruptcy. Mr. Patterson received his B.A. with first-class honors in philosophy from the University of Manitoba. He attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, from which he graduated with a B.A. in jurisprudence (First Class) in 1984 and a Bachelor of Civil Law (First Class) in 1985. He subsequently served as a Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1985-86.