Randye Soref focuses her practice on distressed companies approaching every matter from a practical and successful endgame view. She has a national practice representing clients in all areas of corporate restructurings and bankruptcy litigation, including reorganizations, corporate workouts, creditor's rights and assignments for the benefit of creditors.
Randye represents chapter 11 debtors, creditors and equity security holder committees, creditors, sellers, buyers liquidating trustees, as well as other significant parties in interest. Notable recent cases include acting as lead counsel in national retail and apparel companies, including e-commerce companies, healthcare matters involving large nationally based hospitals, health plans, health care providers, and skilled nursing facilities and cases with significant intellectual property assets. Randye's services include loan workouts, negotiating and documenting debtor-in-possession financing, plan confirmation, 363 sales, obtaining relief from the automatic stay, assignments for the benefit of creditors and successfully litigating multimillion-dollar post-confirmation liquidating trust claims.
Randye is a Fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers, named a 2023 Woman Leader in Law by the Los Angeles Business Journal, recognized as one of the 2022 Top 100 Lawyers by the Los Angeles Business Journal and named "Bankruptcy Lawyer of the Year" by the Century City Bar Association in 2021. She received the 13th Annual Americas Atlas Awards, Chapter 11 Restructuring Deal of the Year for her representation of the creditors’ committee in In re Astria Health, et al. and was the winner of the 13th Annual M&A Atlas Awards, Cross-Border Turnaround Deal of the Year (Large Markets) for her representation of the creditors’ committee in In re Yueting Jia.
Education
- California Western School of Law (J.D.)
- Hofstra University (B.A.)
Bar Admission
- California
Court Admissions
- United States Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Central District of California
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of California
Professional Affiliations
- Fellow, American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers
- American Bankruptcy Institute
- Member, 2010-present
- Chair, West Regional Endowment
- Executive Committee Member/Co-Chair, Asset Sales Committee
- Co-Chair, Bankruptcy Battleground West - ABI Conference, 2015-2021
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Lawyer Representative, 2017-2024
- Fellow, American Bar Foundation
- National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL)
- Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum
- Executive Committee Member
- Secretary, 2020-2021
- Program Chair, 2021-2022
- President, 2022-2023
- Immediate Past President, 2023-2024
- Tina's Wish
- Co-Chair, L.A. Gathering
- Founding Committee Member
- CARE, Credit Abuse Resistance Education
- Board Member, Los Angeles Chapter
- State Bar of California
- Vice-Chair, Financial Institutions Committee, 2012-2016
- Windward School Board of Trustees
- Trustee 2011-2018
- California Bankruptcy Forum
- Financial Lawyers Conference
Recognition
- Named a 2023 Woman Leader in Law by the Los Angeles Business Journal
- Named as one of the 2022 Top 100 Lawyers by the Los Angeles Business Journal, 2022
- Appointed as an Observer, Uniform Law Commission Committee on Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors, 2022
- 13th Annual Americas Atlas Awards, Chapter 11 Restructuring Deal of the Year, Astria Health
- 13th Annual M&A Atlas Awards, Cross-Border Turnaround Deal of the Year (Large Markets) Winner. Yueting Jia Chapter 11 Restructuring
- Ranked in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Bankruptcy/Restructuring, California, 2011-2025
- Named “Bankruptcy Lawyer of the Year” by the Century City Bar Association, 2021
- AV Preeminent rating by Martindale-Hubbell
- Selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America® for Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, 2013-2026
- Selected for inclusion in Southern California Super Lawyers, 2005-2020
- Appointed as a Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference Lawyer Representative, 2017-2024
- Named one of the 2019 Most Influential Women Lawyers by the Los Angeles Business Journal, 2019
- Honorable Mention Award Recipient, Asset Sale of the Year 2019, American Bankruptcy Institute Asset Sale Committee
- Co-Editor, Business Workouts Manual, Thomson Reuters, 2010-present eds.
