Henry C. Kevane

• Creditors’ committees in SeraCare Life Sciences, Guy F. Atkinson Company, America West Airlines
• Chapter 11 debtors in Watsonvile Hospital Corporation, CarbonLite, Verity Health System, Deltagen, Thorpe Insulation, Point Blank Solutions, Champion Enterprises, Aegis Mortgage, Yipes Communications, E/O Networks, Worlds of Wonder, Frederick & Nelson
• Creditors’ committees in the municipal restructurings of the County of Orange, Heffernan Memorial Hospital District (Calexico, California), Palm Drive Healthcare District, West Contra Costa Healthcare District, Valley Health System, Adair County Hospital District (Kentucky)
• Debtor’s counsel to Mendocino Coast Health Care District in its chapter 9 case

• Fellow, American College of Bankruptcy
• Fellow, American Bar Foundation
• Chair, Business Bankruptcy Committee of the ABA Business Law Section (2023-present)
• Vice-chair, Business Bankruptcy Committee of the ABA Business Law Section (2020 – 2023)
• Chair, Asset Forfeiture & Bankruptcy Subcommittee of the Bankruptcy Study & Policy Committee of the ABA Business Law Section (2017-present)
• Co-chair, Programs Subcommittee of the Business Bankruptcy Committee of the ABA Business Law Section (2015-2020)
• Chair, Legislative Subcommittee of the Business Bankruptcy Committee of the ABA Business Law Section (2014-15)
• Chair, Bankruptcy Committees Subcommittee of the Business Bankruptcy Committee of the ABA Business Law Section (2013-14)
• Vice-chair, Individual Chapter 11 Subcommittee of the Business Bankruptcy Committee of the ABA Business Law Section (2011-13)
• Director, Business Law Today (ABA Business Law Section)
• Chair, State Bar of California Committee on Federal Courts (1996-2001)
• Chair, State Bar of California Business Law Section Insolvency Law Committee (1995-1999)

American Bankruptcy Institute, American Intellectual Property Law Association, American Conference Institute, ALI/ABA, Association of Insolvency & Restructuring Advisors

• Cross-Border Municipal Bankruptcy Cases—Wait. What? Rewind. Business Law Today (August 2021)
• Recoupment—Back in Its Bankruptcy Box Business Law Today (June 2021)
• Asset Forfeiture and Insolvency: A Parallel Case Management Guide American Bar Association Business Law Section (October 2019)
• Is a Bankruptcy Court’s Determination of Insider Status Reviewed Under the Rigorous De Novo Standard or the More Deferential Clear-Error Standard? 45 ABA PREVIEW of United States Supreme Court Cases 42 (2017)
• Does the FDCPA Cover a Party That Purchases Defaulted Debt for Its Own Account? 44 ABA PREVIEW of United States Supreme Court Cases 218 (2017)
• Does the Bankruptcy Code Preclude Puerto Rico From Adopting a Local Insolvency Scheme for Restructuring the Debts of Its Public Utilities? 43 ABA PREVIEW of United States Supreme Court Cases 200 (2016)
• Legislative Update: “Indicative Rulings” Under New Bankruptcy Rule 8008 ABA Business Bankruptcy Committee e-Newsletter (July 2015)
• No More Ad Lib: The Nuts and Bolts of Ad Hoc Committees Business Law Today (December 2014)
• Legislative Update: Senate Bill 2418 Bankruptcy Fairness and Employee Benefits Protection ActABA Business Bankruptcy Committee e-Newsletter (June 2014)
• Bond Insurers Become Active Participants in Chapter 9s 26 Journal of Corporate Renewal 24 (May 2013)
• Debtor-in-Possession Financing Funding a Chapter 11 CaseAmerican Bankruptcy Institute (2012)
• What Just Happened? How Asset Forfeiture Affects Bankruptcy Distributions Business Law Today (June 2012)
• Legislative Update: California Assembly Bill 506 on Bankruptcy Code Chapter 9 Eligibility ABA Business Bankruptcy Committee e-Newsletter (January 2012)
• Deploying the “Prepackaged” Plan of Adjustment in Chapter 9 Chapter 9 Bankruptcy StrategiesThomson Reuters (2011)
• Across the Border: IP Entanglements in Chapter 15 Bankruptcies May 2011
• Chapter 9 Municipal Bankruptcy – The New “New Thing”? Parts I & IIBusiness Law Today (May and June 2011)
• Legislative Solutions in the Orange County Chapter 9 Case The Aftermath of Bankruptcy: Legislative Reform—State and Federal (1996)
• The Treatment of Financing Leases in a Chapter 9 Bankruptcy Case Parts I & IIAGLF Tax-Exempt Leasing Letter (1995 & 1996)

• “The Legislative Side of the Orange County Chapter 9 Case” for Sacramento County Bar Association (1996)
• “Now What? Three Questions Facing the Municipal Bondholder Upon Commencement of a Chapter 9 Case,” published in course handbook, Municipal Bond Law for the Bankruptcy Practitioner (1996)
• “Fee Shifting by (1) Oversecured Creditors in Bankruptcy Cases & (2) Prevailing Parties in Civil Litigation,” published in course handbook Getting Paid What You Are Worth (1996)
• “The Newsgatherer’s Shield: Why Waste Space in the California Constitution?” 15 Southwestern University Law Review 527 (1985)
• Coauthor, “Principles of Equitable Subordination Under Section 510 of the Bankruptcy Code,” in Selected Issues in Bankruptcy Practice (Calif. Contin. Ed. Bar 1991)
• Contributing author, Bankruptcy Practice: Annual Recent Developments (Calif. Contin. Ed. Bar 1992-1998)