Henry C. Kevane

Mr. Kevane is the managing partner of the firm's San Francisco office. He has worked on transactional and bankruptcy matters with clients from a variety of industries, and is listed among the Best Lawyers in America and San Francisco's Best Lawyers for his work in bankruptcy and creditor-debtor rights law. He has also been named a Northern California Super Lawyer every year since 2004 in a peer survey conducted by Law & Politics and the publishers of San Francisco magazine, an honor bestowed on only 5% of Northern California attorneys. In 2011, the Daily Journal profiled him in a special supplement as one of the top 25 municipal lawyers in California for his work in chapter 9 bankruptcy cases. Mr. Kevane was inducted into the American College of Bankruptcy as a fellow in 2015. He is a graduate of Brown University and received his J.D. from Southwestern Law School, where he was editor in chief of the Southwestern University Law Review. He holds an AV Preeminent Peer Rating, Martindale-Hubbell's highest recognition for ethical standards and legal ability, and has been listed in Best Lawyers in America for Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law since 2006. Mr. Kevane is admitted to practice in California.

News

•PSZJ Attorneys Named in Best Lawyers in America
August 15, 2019
•Northern California Super Lawyers and a Rising Star
March 12, 2019
•PSZJ Attorneys Named in Best Lawyers in America
August 15, 2018
•Thirty-Five PSZJ Attorneys Named Best Lawyers in America
August 15, 2017
•Nineteen PSZJ Attorneys Named Best Lawyers in America
August 2016
•Four Pachulski Lawyers Named Northern California's Best Lawyers
November 2015
•Seventeen PSZJ Attorneys Named Best Lawyers in America
August 17, 2015
•Henry Kevane Inducted Into American College of Bankruptcy
November 2014
•Thirteen PSZJ Attorneys Named Best Lawyers in America
August 2014
•Four PSZJ Lawyers in San Francisco Named Super Lawyers
San Francisco Magazine
Northern California Super Lawyers, July 2014
•Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones: Five M&A Advisor Turnaround Awards
February 2014
•Pachulski Stang Selected as Committee Counsel in Adair County Hospital District
January 2014
•Three Pachulski Lawyers Named Northern California's Best Lawyers
The Recorder & Best Lawyers in America, February 2013
•Henry Kevane Named Among Top 25 California Municipal Lawyers
Special Municipal Law supplement to Daily Journal (page 14), December 7, 2011
•PSZJ Attorneys Among Best Lawyers in America
2008

Programs and Lectures

American Intellectual Property Law Association, American Conference Institute, ALI/ABA, Association of Insolvency & Restructuring Advisors

Events

•Securities Law for Bankruptcy Dummies
ABA Business Law Section Business Bankruptcy Committee
Las Vegas, October 8, 2017
•Individual Chapter 11 Confirmation Mock Hearing
California Bankruptcy Forum 2015 Conference
Napa CA, May 15, 2015
•Individual Chapter 11 Debtor Mock Confirmation Hearing
26th Annual American Bankuptcy Institute Winter Leadership Conference
La Quinta CA, December 6, 2014
•Judicial Symposium on the Economics and Law of Public Pension Reform
Law & Economics Center George Mason University School of Law
San Francisco, September 16, 2014
•Municipal Financial Distress - Past, Present, and Future
Turnaround Management Association
Webinar, May 23, 2013
•Icebergs Ahead! The Impact of State Laws Imposing Restrictions and Conditions on Municipal Bankruptcies Under Chapter 9
86th Annual National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges
San Diego, October 26, 2012
•Practical Tips (and Tricks) at the Crossroads of Bankruptcy and IP
34th Annual Paralegal Ass'n of Santa Clara County Educational Seminar
Palo Alto CA, October 20, 2012
•Gone Broke? IP Assets of Clients of Firms Going in and out of Bankruptcy
AIPLA Spring Meeting
San Francisco, May 13, 2011

Publications

•Asset Forfeiture and Insolvency: A Parallel Case Management Guide
American Bar Association Business Law Section, October 2019
•Is a Bankruptcy Court’s Determination of Insider Status Reviewed Under the Rigorous De Novo Standard or the More Deferential Clear-Error Standard?
45 ABA PREVIEW of United States Supreme Court Cases 42 (2017), October 27, 2017
•Does the FDCPA Cover a Party That Purchases Defaulted Debt for Its Own Account?
44 ABA PREVIEW of United States Supreme Court Cases 218 (2017), April 14, 2017
•Does the Bankruptcy Code Preclude Puerto Rico From Adopting a Local Insolvency Scheme for Restructuring the Debts of Its Public Utilities?
43 PREVIEW of United States Supreme Court Cases 200 (2016), March 22, 2016
•Legislative Update: Indicative Rulings Under New Bankruptcy Rule 8008
ABA Business Bankruptcy Committee e-Newsletter, July 2015
•No More Ad Lib: The Nuts and Bolts of Ad Hoc Committees
Business Law Today, December 2014
•Legislative Update: Senate Bill 2418
Bankruptcy Fairness and Employee Benefits Protection Act
ABA Business Bankruptcy Committee of the Business Law Section, June 11, 2014
•Bond Insurers Become Active Participants in Chapter 9s
26 Journal of Corporate Renewal 24, May 2013
•Debtor-in-Possession Financing
Funding a Chapter 11 Case
December 2012
•What Just Happened? How Asset Forfeiture Affects Bankruptcy Distributions
Business Law Today, June 2012
•Legislative Update: California Assembly Bill 506 on Bankruptcy Code Chapter 9 Eligibility
American Bar Association Business Law Section Business Bankruptcy Committee Newsletter, January 2012
•Deploying the “Prepackaged” Plan of Adjustment in Chapter 9
Chapter 9 Bankruptcy Strategies, October 2011
•Across the Border: IP Entanglements in Chapter 15 Bankruptcies
May 2011
•Chapter 9 Municipal Bankruptcy - The New “New Thing”?
Parts I & II
20 Business Law Today (May and June 2011)
• Legislative Solutions in the Orange County Chapter 9 Case, published in course handbook, The Aftermath of Bankruptcy: Legislative Reform -- State and Federal (1996)
• The Treatment of Financing Leases in a Chapter 9 Bankruptcy Case, in AGL & F Tax-Exempt Leasing Letter (1996)
• The Legislative Side of the Orange County Chapter 9 Case for Sacramento County Bar Association (1996)
• Now What? Three Questions Facing the Municipal Bondholder Upon Commencement of a Chapter 9 Case, published in course handbook, Municipal Bond Law for the Bankruptcy Practitioner (1996)
• Fee Shifting by (1) Oversecured Creditors in Bankruptcy Cases & (2) Prevailing Parties in Civil Litigation, published in course handbook Getting Paid What You Are Worth (1996)
• The Newsgatherer's Shield: Why Waste Space in the California Constitution? 15 Southwestern University Law Review 527 (1985)
•Coauthor, Principles of Equitable Subordination Under Section 510 of the Bankruptcy Code, in Selected Issues in Bankruptcy Practice (1991)
•Contributing author, Bankruptcy Practice: Annual Recent Developments (Calif. Contin. Ed. Bar 1992-1998)