J. Alexandra Rhim

Partner

J. Alexandra Rhim is a commercial litigation and transactional attorney who focuses her practice on loan workouts and debt restructuring, secured lending, bankruptcy, and creditors’ rights.

Ms. Rhim received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley. She earned her law degree from Loyola University in Los Angeles. Ms. Rhim joined the firm in 2014 after practicing at an Am Law 200 firm and a full-service regional firm.

Loan Workouts; Secured Transactions: Ms. Rhim is experienced in loan workouts, restructuring, forbearance arrangements and other strategic transactions. Her experience extends to modifying loan facilities, intercreditor matters, and advising of bankruptcy risks. Ms. Rhim also has a “front-end” practice in negotiating, structuring and documenting commercial loans.

Bankruptcy Experience: She also practices in all aspects of bankruptcy cases including cash collateral, postpetition financing, asset sales, and plan confirmation. She has chartered postpetition financing and exit strategies achieving full repayment for lenders. She also handles litigation and appeals arising from bankruptcy cases. Her published cases include: In re Phar-Mor, 301 B.R. 482 (Bankr. N.D. Ohio 2003); Phar-Mor v. McKesson Corp., 534 F.3d 502 (6th Cir. 2008) (landmark decision involving reclamation and postpetition financing); Elliott v. Pacific Western Bank, 969 F.3d 1006 (9^th Cir. 2020); and Rubin v. Ross, 2021 WL 2283771 (Cal.App.4^th Dist. 2021).

State Law Rights and Remedies: Ms. Rhim also practices in the area of creditor rights in judicial and out-of-court proceedings. Her experience extends to lien priority disputes, defense of lender liability claims, provisional remedies, Article 9 remedies and assignments for benefit of creditors.

Ms. Rhim has been a speaker at the Commercial Finance Association’s annual Bankruptcy and Loan Workout seminar and at other presentations before trade organizations and firm clients. Ms. Rhim is the author of “How Absolute is the Absolute Priority Rule in Individual Chapter 11 Cases?” Points and Authorities, 2012, and “Chapter 20: Consumer Bankruptcy Law,” PLI Consumer Financial Services Answer Book (2014 and 2015).

Ms. Rhim is admitted to practice in the State of California, all U.S. District Courts of California, and the Sixth, Eighth and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals.