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 Kenneth N. Klee
Partner
(310) 407-4080
(310) 407-9090 fax
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Kenneth N. Klee is a member of KTBS
and a Professor at the UCLA School of Law. Mr. Klee was admitted
to practice in 1975 before the bars of California and District
of Columbia. He was admitted to the New York bar in 1996.
His preparatory education was at Stanford University where
he received his A.B. in Economics, with great distinction,
in 1971. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa fraternity. He earned
his J.D. degree from Harvard University, graduating cum laude,
in 1974.
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Mr. Klee served as a contributing
editor to Collier on Bankruptcy from 1979 until 1996 and a consulting
editor from 1980 to 1996.
At the UCLA School of Law, Mr. Klee teaches courses in bankruptcy
law and Chapter 11 business reorganizations law, and a business
simulation/clinical course dedicated to the topic of creating
value through the renegotiation of business agreements. During
the 1995-96 academic year, Professor Klee taught courses in
bankruptcy and a seminar in business reorganizations at Harvard
Law School as the Robert Braucher Visiting Professor from Practice.
He taught the course "Chapter 11 Business Reorganizations"
at the UCLA School of Law from 1979-94 and in 1997, and at the
University of Southern California Law Center in 1983.
Mr. Klee has participated, since 1975, on several hundred programs
for the continuing education of the bar in the area of bankruptcy
and business reorganizations. He is serving for a second time as
a Lawyer Representative to the 9th Circuit Judicial Conference.
Mr. Klee also serves as a member of The American Law Institute and
was an Adviser on its Transnational Insolvency Project. In addition,
he is a founding member of the International Insolvency Institute.
Mr. Klee is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Financial
Lawyers Conference of Los Angeles. He served as member of the executive
committee of the National Bankruptcy Conference from 1985 to 1988
and 1992 to 2000 and served as Chair of the National Bankruptcy
Conference's legislation committee from 1992-2000. Mr. Klee was
Associate Counsel, Committee on Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives
1974-1977, where he was a principal draftsperson of the Bankruptcy
Code. Since then, he has served periodically as a bankruptcy consultant
to the House Judiciary Committee, 1977-1982, and to the United States
Department of Justice, 1983-1984.
Mr. Klee served from 1992-2000 as a member of the Advisory Committee
on Bankruptcy Rules of the United States Judicial Conference. In
June, 1994, he led a mission to China sponsored by the International
Republican Institute to assist in the writing of the Chinese Bankruptcy
Laws.
Representative clients of Mr. Klee have included: Equity investors
in 203 N. La Salle Street Assocs.; Boston Chicken Plan Trust
as majority equity owner of Einstein/Noah Bagel Corp.; First
Trust and Bank of New York, trustees, as appellees before the
New York Court of Appeals and the United States Court of Appeals
for the Eleventh Circuit in Chemical Bank v. First Trust (In
re Southeast Banking Corp.); Maxwell Communication Corp. PLC,
as appellant before the United States Court of Appeals for the
Second Circuit in Maxwell Communication Corp. PLC v. Societe
Generale, et al; the out-of-court Bondholders' Steering Committee
in Primestar; 400 South Hope Street Associates L.P., in which
he served as lead debtor's counsel; the debtors in Barney's
Inc., et al, as debtors' special counsel; the debtors in Anacomp,
Inc.; the debtors in Sun World; the debtors in the five administratively
consolidated Standard Brands Paint Company cases; the debtor
in Financial Corporation of America; the creditors' committees
in the Adelphia, Del Taco, Iridium, Papercraft and Griffin Resorts,
Inc. chapter 11 cases; the noteholders' committee in PG&E
National Energy Group, the out-of-court bondholders' committees
in the Charter Medical and Orion Pictures restructurings; and
Pennzoil, in the Texaco Inc. chapter 11 case. He also has served
as an expert witness in over 40 matters. |
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