Special Assets Team™ welcomes two new associates
JMBM's Special Assets Team™ welcomes Juan Galvan and Kevin Chen, two talented young attorneys, to our San Francisco office. Juan and Kevin will represent major institutional lenders and creditors in negotiating, documenting, and restructuring commercial and real estate loans and in enforcement actions in federal and state court and in bankruptcy court.
As a Certified Public Accountant, Juan Galvan has an excellent understanding of detailed financial statements and accounting principles. He is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall) and California State University, Northridge (B.A., magna cum laude, in Accounting and Business Administration). While in law school, he was a judicial extern for Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker in the U.S. District Court of California. After graduation, Juan was an associate at a major national law firm and he currently serves on the Board of Directors for San Francisco's La Raza Lawyers Association. Juan grew up in Los Angeles and speaks fluent Spanish.
Kevin Chen brings his experience with workouts and loan restructuring at an international law firm to the San Francisco Bankruptcy practice. He received his J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, and a B.A. in Economics and History from Yale University. He also clerked for U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Thomas B. Donovan in Los Angeles. Kevin hails from Sacramento and is also fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
The addition of Juan and Kevin will bring their analytical skills to the JMBM Special Assets Team™, which serves as trusted counsel and advisors who look for a business solution and try to help lenders find the best possible resolution for each troubled loan. The JMBM Special Assets Team™ has substantial expertise in Chapter 11 cases, pre-bankruptcy planning and strategizing, out-of-court debt and equity restructuring, complex workouts, assignments for the benefit of creditors, receiverships and foreclosures representing creditors, trustees, receivers, assignees and creditors' committees. We also handle the purchase and sale of assets out of bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings.
We are excited to have both Juan and Kevin on the JMBM Special Assets Team™ and know they will be a great resource to our clients.
