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JohnBae

Partner

John is a partner in the Business Restructuring, Creditors' Rights & Bankruptcy practice group. He focuses his practice on representing clients in large, complex and litigious bankruptcies, as well as strategic transactions that use the bankruptcy process to achieve business objectives. John has extensive transactional and litigation experience, and has developed particular experience in mass tort-related bankruptcies and out-of-court restructurings, including restructurings related to asbestos liability.

John regularly advises and represents companies and boards of directors in insolvency situations, both domestically and internationally. His clients have included debtors, creditors, senior and mezzanine lenders, ad hoc noteholder committees and insurers as well as administrators of foreign insolvent estates.

Martindale-Hubbell Preeminent Rating 2020
Best Lawyers 2025
Super Lawyers 2024

Focus Areas

John’s clients include:

  • Debtors in chapter 11 restructurings and liquidations.
  • Debtors and affiliated companies in restructurings to address asbestos liability.
  • Companies in out of court restructurings to address asbestos and other mass tort liabilities.
  • Companies in defending against fraudulent conveyance and preference claims.
  • Companies and insurers in mass tort-driven chapter 11 cases.
  • Distressed real estate investment funds in acquisitions of commercial real estate under section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code.
  • Boards of directors of financially distressed companies.
  • Official committees of unsecured creditors and individual members of committees in large chapter 11 cases.
  • Administrators of foreign companies in insolvency proceedings.
  • Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2024 and 2025 for Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
  • Selected to New York Metro Super Lawyers list, 2007-2024

Professional Activities

  • Adjunct professor of Law, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University
  • Inaugural inductee into the Hall of Fame at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University

Education

  • Hofstra University, J.D., 1989,

    Notes & Comments editor, Hofstra Law Review

  • State University of New York at Albany, B.A., 1986

Bar Admissions

  • New York

Court Admissions

  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
  • U.S. Supreme Court

Languages

  • Korean