Samuel M. Kidder is a member of KTBS. Mr. Kidder represents clients in high-stakes bankruptcy-related litigation. He has extensive experience litigating adversary proceedings and contested matters in large, complex chapter 11 cases.
Mr. Kidder has taught Business Bankruptcy at the UCLA School of Law, and his writing on bankruptcy topics has been published in the California Bankruptcy Journal, Collier Practice Guide, UCLA Law Review, and Law360. In 2023, Mr. Kidder was honored as a top “40 Under 40” insolvency professional by the American Bankruptcy Institute. He was also named a Rising Star in the field of corporate bankruptcy by Super Lawyers magazine on several occasions.
Mr. Kidder is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, the Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum, Turnaround Management Association, and the Financial Lawyers Conference. He serves on the board of directors of the Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum and the advisory board for the American Bankruptcy Institute’s annual Bankruptcy Battleground West Conference.
Mr. Kidder received his J.D. from the UCLA School of Law, where he graduated Order of the Coif and was a member of the UCLA Law Review. Following law school, Mr. Kidder served as a law clerk to the Honorable Kim McLane Wardlaw, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Mr. Kidder’s representative engagements include: counsel to the defendants in Kravitz v. Samson Energy Co. (Bankr. D. Del.), a fraudulent transfer action alleging more than $5 billion in damages, in which the bankruptcy court entered judgment in defendants’ favor on all counts; counsel to Adventist Health in litigation regarding interpretation of a bankruptcy sale order in In re Beverly Community Hospital Association (Bankr. C.D. Cal.); counsel to a law firm representing over 3,000 ovarian cancer claimants in the In re Imerys Talc chapter 11 case (Bankr. D. Del.); counsel to the Woodbridge Liquidation Trustee in numerous fraudulent transfer actions arising from the Woodbridge Group of Companies Ponzi scheme (Bankr. D. Del.); counsel to an Am Law 50 law firm in defense of fraudulent transfer and other claims (Bankr. S.D. Cal.); and counsel to a publicly traded REIT in defense of a preferential transfer claim brought by the Department of Justice under the Federal Debt Collection Procedures Act (C.D. Cal.).