John-Patrick M. Fritz

John-Patrick M. Fritz is a partner at Levene, Neale, Bender, Yoo & Golubchik L.L.P. in Los Angeles and advises clients as chapter 11 debtors in possession, purchasers, post-petition lenders, creditors, committees, and litigants in bankruptcy-related matters. He is also a subchapter V trustee. Mr. Fritz represents clients in all industries, including start-ups, intellectual property-based companies, hotels and hospitality, commercial real estate, food production, restaurants, retail, manufacturing, construction, and entertainment and film. For many years, he has served on the board of directors for the Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum, the board of governors and executive committee of the Financial Lawyers Conference, and the advisory board for ABI’s annual Bankruptcy Battleground West program. Mr. Fritz is a regular panel speaker on bankruptcy and restructuring issues for various professional and business organizations, and he has been named a “Super Lawyer” and “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers magazine. He previously served as a judicial law clerk to Hon. Maureen A. Tighe from 2007-09 before joining the firm as an associate in 2009. Mr. Fritz received his undergraduate degree cum laude and with honors from Tufts University, and his J.D. magna cum laude from Southwestern Law School, where he was in the top 5 percent of his class. Mr. Fritz studied abroad for one year in Kyoto, worked for the Japanese government in Japan for two years, and is proficient in Japanese