Ms. Cantor’s practice focuses on representing companies and creditor representatives in financial restructurings and bankruptcy reorganizations. She has substantial experience representing debtors, trustees, secured creditors, and creditors' committees in chapter 11 bankruptcy cases.
She has been named to the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal ’s list of “Top 100 Women Lawyers,” which identifies California’s leading women lawyers. The Daily Journal recognized Ms. Cantor for her roles in representing the chapter 11 trustee for Guess Jeans co-founder Georges Marciano and representing American Suzuki Motor Corporation in its chapter 11 case. She has been active in several other top PSZJ cases, including representing the chapter 11 trustee appointed in the bankruptcy cases of Penthouse Global Media and its fourteen debtor subsidiaries.
She holds an AV Preeminent Peer Rating, Martindale-Hubbell's highest recognition for ethical standards and legal ability, and has been named to Super Lawyers' coveted Top Women list, consisting of only fifty practitioners in the region. She has also been listed in Best Lawyers for the past three years. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where she later received her J.D.
Ms. Cantor, a member of the firm since 1990, is admitted to practice in Illinois and California, and is a resident in our Los Angeles office.
News
•Twenty-One PSZJ Attorneys Named 2020 Southern California “Super Lawyers” January 15, 2020
•PSZJ Attorneys Named in Best Lawyers in America August 15, 2019
•Twenty-One PSZJ Attorneys Named 2019 Southern California “Super Lawyers” January 30, 2019
•PSZJ Attorneys Named in Best Lawyers in America August 15, 2018
•Twenty PSZJ Attorneys Named 2018 Southern California “Super Lawyers” January 31, 2018
•Thirty-Five PSZJ Attorneys Named Best Lawyers in America August 15, 2017
•Eighteen PSZJ Attorneys Named 2017 Southern California “Super Lawyers” January 25, 2017
•Linda Cantor and Shirley Cho: Top Women Lawyers in Southern California September 2016
•Thirteen PSZJ Attorneys Selected as Southern California Super Lawyers Los Angeles magazine, February 2015
•Linda Cantor Named in Daily Journal's Top Women Lawyers List May 7, 2014
•Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones: Five M&A Advisor Turnaround Awards February 2014
•American Suzuki Swiftly Glides to Plan Confirmation March 6, 2013
Programs and Lectures
ABI Winter Leadership Conference (issues arising in hotel bankruptcy cases);ABI Southwest Bankruptcy Conference (post-confirmation/jurisdiction);California Bankruptcy Forum (ethics matters)
Events
•Do the Right Thing: Dealing With Unethical Tactics in Bankruptcy, Both Inside and Outside of the Courtroom California Bankruptcy Forum 25th Annual Insolvency Conference San Diego, May 18, 2013
Publicaiton
• The Impact of Bankruptcy on Entertainment License Agreements: Protecting the Rights of Debtor Licensees, 19 California Bankruptcy Journal 225 (1991)
