Ms. Cho has more than twenty years' experience advising debtors, creditors’ committees, creditors, and purchasers. She has represented some of the largest companies in America to restructure billions of dollars of debt, acquirers of assets out of bankruptcy, and dozens of committees of unsecured creditors across a variety of industries.
Ms. Cho also has significant experience representing U.S. debtors involved in crossborder proceedings and has also represented foreign creditors, including Fortune Global top 20 companies, to successfully pursue significant claims in chapter 11. Ms. Cho has also served as an expert on U.S. insolvency law in foreign proceedings.
An active member of the community, Ms. Cho was recently appointed to the national council of Korean Americans and has also served as co-chair of the American Bankruptcy Institute Battleground West, the Annual Insolvency Restructuring Advisors Annual Conference, and on the board of trustees of her law school and Asian Americans Advancing Justice-LA. Ms. Cho has won numerous accolades, including being named as one of The Best Lawyers in America for the past five years and the Daily Journal’s Top 100 Women Lawyers in 2019.
Ms. Cho has written and lectured extensively on U.S. bankruptcy law. She began her career as a law clerk for the Honorable John E. Ryan, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California and the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit. Ms. Cho is admitted to practice in California and New York and holds a B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from the University of California, Berkeley. She is 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
•Shirley Cho Listed Among Daily Journal Top Women Lawyers in 2019 Daily Journal Special Report Daily Journal, May 8, 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
•Nineteen PSZJ Attorneys Named Best Lawyers in America August 2016
•Seventeen PSZJ Attorneys Named Best Lawyers in America August 17, 2015
•Thirteen PSZJ Attorneys Selected as Southern California Super Lawyers Los Angeles magazine, February 2015
•Ten Southern California Super Lawyers at Pachulski Stang Los Angeles magazine, February 2014
•Reorganized MMFX Technologies Corporation Emerges Stronger; PSZJ Negotiates Good Return for Unsecured Creditors July 2011
•Pachulski Stang Honored for Work on Flying J and The Walking Company Chapter 11 Cases M&A Advisor Fifth Annual Turnaround Awards The M&A Advisor, March 9, 2011
•Rhodes Emerges From Chapter 11 April 1, 2010
Events
•The Emerging Leaders Program 2019 Empower Summit: Council of Korean Americans Washington DC, November 2, 2019
•A Profile of the Seadrill Chapter 11 Reorganisation International Bar Association Annual Conference Seoul, South Korea, September 24, 2019
•The Role of Court Officers in Insolvency Proceedings 27th Annual International Association of Korean Lawyers Conference Seoul, South Korea, September 21, 2019
•Shark Tank ABI Bankruptcy Battleground West Los Angeles, March 21, 2017
•The Role of Insolvency Practitioners in Rehabilitation-Technical Programme INSOL International Seoul One-Day Seminar Seoul, South Korea, February 23, 2017
•Grocery Store Bankruptcies 32nd Annual Association of Insolvency & Restructuring Advisors Conference June 10, 2016
•Everything-Must-Go Sale: The Ins and Outs of Retail Bankruptcies ABI 24th Annual Bankruptcy Battleground West Los Angeles, March 11, 2016
•Tricks of the Trade in Dealing With Executory Contracts American Bankruptcy Institute Unsecured Trade Creditors' Committee Dial-in conference call, February 4, 2015
•Great Debate: Chapter 11, Soup to Nuts-Hot Topics in Chapter 11 Cases 22nd Annual ABI Bankruptcy Battleground West Los Angeles, March 11, 2014
•Hot Topics Related to Use & Disposition of Property: Efficient Exits From Bankruptcy, Credit Bidding in Light of RadLAX, and ABA Model Bankruptcy APA 86th Annual National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges San Diego, October 25, 2012
•Municipal Upheaval in California: Is Chapter 9 the Solution? 19th Annual Bankruptcy Battleground West Los Angeles, March 4, 2011
Clerkships
•Law clerk, Judge John E. Ryan (Bankr. C.D. Cal. 1997-98)
Publicaiton
•The Role of Insolvency Practitioners in the United States Presented to the INSOL International Seoul One-Day Seminar, February 2017
•Trustees: When Retaining Counsel, Don’t Forget About Special Counsel 23 Journal of the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees 22 (No. 3 Fall 2013)
•Delaware Bankruptcy Court Weighs in on Intercreditor Agreements 31 American Bankruptcy Institute Journal 14 (No. 6 July 2012), July 2012
• Chapter 11 Bankruptcy After BAPCPA - A Closer Look at Critical Trade, Exclusivity, and Dismissal/Conversion, 63 Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report (Spring/Summer 2009)
•Coauthor, A Comparison Shopping Guide for 363 Sales (ABI 2009)
•Coauthor, Clear Channel Muddies the Waters of Section 363(m) Mootness Protection, 22 Bankruptcy Strategist 1 (No. 2 Dec. 2008)
•“The Intersection of Critical Vendor Orders and Bankruptcy Code Section 503(b)(9),” 29 California Bankruptcy Journal 1 (2007)
•“The Southern District of New York Adds Its Two Cents to the Catapult Debate,” 4 ABI Technology & Telecommunications Committee Newsletter (No. 2 June 2007)
•“A Closer Look at Critical Trade; Exclusivity; and Dismissal/Conversion, published in materials for American Bar Association Annual Meeting (2006)
• The Danger Zone: Fiduciary Duty Issues Impacting Directors and Officers in the Zone of Insolvency and Beyond, published in materials for Strategies for Distressed Companies Conference (CLE Int'l Nov. 2001)
• What To Do When Your Payor Goes Under, published in materials for American Hospitals & Health Systems Law Institute Conference (2000)
• Continuing Economic Reform in the People's Republic of China: Bankruptcy Legislation Leads the Way, 19 Hastings International & Comparative Law Review 739 (1996), reprinted in Telescope Translation Series, 1906-2006 (China University of Political Science and Law 2018)
•Coauthor, U.S.-Canadian Cross-Border Insolvencies -- A Survey of Recent Ancillary Proceedings, published in materials for Canadian-American Symposium on Cross-Border Insolvency Law (ABI Feb. 2005)
•Coauthor, A Model for Canadian Cross-Border Insolvency: Core-Mark International, Inc., 22 Bankruptcy Strategist 1 (No. 6 Apr. 2005)
•Coauthor, The Zone of Insolvency: When Has a Company Entered Into It and, Once There, What Are the Board's Duties? published in materials for Bankruptcy 2002: Views From the Bench (ABI 2002)
