Focus Areas
John’s clients include:
- Ad hoc committees of bondholders in complex and litigious bankruptcy cases, including In re Caesars Entertainment Operating Company, In re AbitibiBowater and In re Motors Liquidation Company (GM)
- Debtors in chapter 11 restructurings and liquidations
- Debtors and affiliated companies in restructurings to address asbestos liability, including In re T.H. Agriculture & Nutrition and In re Quigley Company Inc.
- Companies in defending against fraudulent conveyance and preference claims
- Companies and insurers in mass tort-driven chapter 11 cases and out-of-court restructurings
- 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
- “Out-of-Court Restructuring to Exit Asbestos Litigation: Alternative to Chapter 11,” New York Law Journal, September 2022
- “COVID-19’s Impact on Directors’ Fiduciary Duties to Distressed Companies,” Thompson Hine COVID-19 Update, June 2020
- Co-author, “COVID-19’s Impact on Directors’ Fiduciary Duties to Distressed Companies,” The New York Law Journal, June 2020
- Quoted, “Bankruptcy boom: distress in the US retail space,” Financier Worldwide Magazine, September 2017
- Co-author, “The Evolution of Fiduciary Duties Under Delaware Law,” New York Law Journal, September 2015
- Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© 2024 for Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Selected to New York Metro Super Lawyers list, 2007-2023
Professional Activities
- Adjunct professor of Law, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University
- Member, Dean’s Advisory Committee, 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
- Out-of-Court Restructuring to Exit Asbestos Litigation: Alternative to Chapter 11,
New York Law Journal
, September 26, 2022 - Six Thompson Hine Lawyers Recognized by New York Super Lawyers 2021,
Thompson Hine LLP
, September 30, 2021 - Eight Thompson Hine Lawyers Recognized by New York Super Lawyers 2020, October 29, 2020
- COVID-19’s Impact on Directors’ Fiduciary Duties to Distressed Companies,
COVID-19 Update
, June 29, 2020 - COVID-19’s Impact on Directors’ Fiduciary Duties to Distressed Companies,
New York Law Journal
, June 5, 2020 - John Bae Joins Thompson Hine’s Restructuring Practice in New York,
Bae Is Second Bankruptcy Partner to Join NY Practice in Six Months
, May 2, 2019