Paul Jasper
For more than 25 years, Paul has represented clients in bankruptcy, corporate restructuring, and complex litigation matters.
Paul Jasper represents debtors, creditor committees, secured and unsecured creditors, and asset purchasers in nationwide bankruptcy cases and out-of-court workouts and restructurings. He also helps creditors, assignees for the benefit of creditors, trustees, receivers, and asset purchasers with receiverships, assignments for benefit of creditors, and other state insolvency matters.
Paul draws on his experience with defaulted corporate trust transactions to advise corporate trustees and other deal parties such as monoline insurers, portfolio managers, and bondholders, on defaulted corporate bonds, structured finance, asset-backed, and other complex financings. These include post-default servicing, enforcement of remedies, and out-of-court restructurings, as well as related risk mitigation and litigation strategies.
Paul advises major financial institutions in their capacity as an indenture trustee or agent on bond and loan facility defaults. He has counseled financial institutions acting as indenture trustees or agents in complex restructuring and liquidation scenarios with respect to:
- Exercising their post-default rights and obligations under debt indentures and loan agreements and under governing federal or state law, and in cross-border insolvency proceedings.
- Assessing, negotiating, and protecting noteholder interests in connection with issuer reorganizations, restructurings, debtor-in-possession (DIP) financings, and asset sales.
Paul provides guidance to clients on all aspects of collateralized debt obligation, collateralized loan obligation, collateralized bond obligation, and other structured finance-related workouts. His experience includes issues related to termination of synthetic securities and swap agreements, amendments, liquidation of collateral, direct and synthetic commutations, control rights, distribution waterfalls, and related disputes.
Paul also represents clients in risk mitigation and related commercial litigation, including banks, insurance companies, and other financial institutions; venture capital and real estate investment funds; private and public companies; and airports and other governmental entities. He has advised clients on issues including fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, negligence, breach of contract, and business tort claims.
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Education & Credentials
Education
- UC Berkeley School of Law, J.D.
- University of California, San Diego, B.A., cum laude
- Yeshivat Bat Ayin, Talmudic Law and Hebrew, Israel
Bar and Court Admissions
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California
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Supreme Court of California
- State Superior Court of California
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
Related Employment
- Rimon PC, San Francisco, CA, Partner
- Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP, San Francisco, CA, Partner
- Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, San Francisco, CA, Partner
Professional Recognition
Listed in Best Lawyers in America: Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, 2023-2025
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Representative Experience
Paul’s recent bankruptcy matters include representing:
- Indenture trustee for approximately $315 million of First Preferred Ship Mortgage Notes in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of a Greek shipping company and its affiliates pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
- Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Watsonville Hospital bankruptcy case pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
- Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Madera Community Hospital bankruptcy case in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California.
- Authorized foreign representative of the debtors in the Chapter 15 bankruptcy cases of Simex Inc. and its affiliates pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.
- Authorized foreign representative of the debtor in the Chapter 15 bankruptcy case of Antamex Industries ULC pending in the District of Delaware.
- Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Svenhard’s Swedish Bakery case, pending in the Eastern District of California.