Debra Grassgreen

• Debtors/trustees: Gritstone bio Inc.; Amyris; Watsonville Hospital; MobiTV; Solyndra LLC; American Suzuki Motor Corporation; Blue Earth; APVO; Tintri; New Zoom; Ultura (APTwater Rochem); Airxpanders; Select Staffing; Exigen (USA); Digital Domain Media; Highway Technologies; Global Aviation (cocounsel); Mesa Air Group; MagnaChip Semiconductor; Dunmore Homes; Woodside Homes; Webvan Group; Pacific Crossing Limited (subsidiary of Global Crossing); RBX Industries; Laura West Enterprises; Clarent Corporation; Breed Technologies; TCW/Camil Holdings; Sleepmaster Corporation; Sizzler International; Fresh Choice; Tri-Valley Growers; Dana Corporation (cocounsel); Le-Nature’s; Crown Paper; Mike Tyson; Toni Braxton; Ronald Isley
• Creditors’ committees: SunPower Corporation; LeFever Mattson; Professional Financial Investors; Chinos Holdings (J.Crew Group); EP Energy; The Weinstein Company; Open Road Films; Payless Holdings (2017); Payless Holdings (2019); Zetta Jet; BCBG Max Azria; SFX Entertainment; RDIO, Inc.; BR Festivals; Twenty First Century Film Corporation; Death Row Records/Marion “Suge” Knight; Flying J; Trident Microsystems (Far East) Ltd; LandSource Communities Development; Chrysler (cocounsel); SK Foods; Frank Parsons International
• Tort claimants’ committee in Boy Scouts of America
• Lenders/investors/creditors in Videology (Group M); Ciber (Zayo); Baupost (PG&E); Stion (Khosla Ventures); Quirky Inc. (KleinerPerkins, A16, Norwest); Nirvanix; KiOR (Khosla Ventures); PacWest Telecom (CVC)
• Out-of-court workouts: International bioengineering firm; Israeli solar developer; Spanish & US-based wind developer; provider of end-to-end mobile media solutions; solar module manufacturer Amonix; numerous venture-backed technology companies
• Other: Counsel to Uber Technologies; counsel to PharmaTop, creditors’ committee chair in Mallinckrodt LLC (represented chair of creditors committee and GUC Trust); counsel to former San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos as receiver of the SF Housing Authority; counsel to buyer and license counterparty in Zymergen; counsel to Kodiak, buyer in Retrotope; counsel to DIP Lender Orbimed in Proteus

• President, International Insolvency Institute (2019-)
• Executive vice president, International Insolvency Institute (2017-2019)
• Fellow, American College of Bankruptcy (Ninth Circuit Regent, 2023-; Chair, International Committee, 2022-2023)
• Board of directors, American College of Bankruptcy Foundation (2013-2016)
• Member, Advisory Committee of the American Bankruptcy Institute Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11
• Board of directors, International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (“IWIRC”)(2010-2014)
• IWIRC delegate to UNCITRAL
• Member, International Bar Association

Practicing Law Institute (standing faculty); American Bankruptcy Institute; Turnaround Management Association; State Bar of California; Beverly Hills Bar Association; American Bar Association; Bar Association of San Francisco; University of Florida College of Law; California Continuing Education of the Bar; Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Accountants; International Council of Shopping Centers, International Insolvency Institute, INSOL, UNCITRAL

• The Use of Mediation to Improve Global Restructuring Outcomes in a Post-Pandemic World Global Restructuring Review (GRR), September 10, 2021
• First Day Motions (3d ed.) A Guide to the Critical First Days of a Bankruptcy CaseAmerican Bankruptcy Institute, June 2012
• Valuation and the Chapter 11 Process Contested Valuation in Corporate Bankruptcy: A Collier Monograph (LexisNexis), 2011
• Individual Chapter 11 Cases After BAPCPA What Happened to the “Fresh Start”?2006 Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law 309 (West 2006), 2006
• Coauthor with M. Litvak: First Day Motions: A Guide to the Critical First Days of a Bankruptcy Case (ABI 2d ed. 2006)(sole author of 1st ed. 2003)
• Coauthor with P. Egan: “Valuation and the Chapter 11 Process” in Contested Valuation in Corporate Bankruptcy – A Collier Monograph (LexisNexis 2011)
• Author: “Individual Chapter 11 Cases After BAPCPA: What Happened to the “Fresh Start?” 2006 Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law 309 (West 2006)
• “Property of the Estate,” in Understanding the Basics of Bankruptcy & Reorganization 2005, 880 PLI/Comm 145 (2005)
• “Sale of Assets,” in Understanding the Basics of Bankruptcy & Reorganization 2005, 880 PLI/Comm 249 (2005)
• “Rejection, Assumption and Assignment of Real Estate Leases Generally,” in Impact of Bankruptcy on Real Property Transactions (Cal. Cont. Ed. of the Bar 2003)