Pamela Kohlman Webster
Los Angeles, California
Shareholder
phone (213) 891-5069
fax      (213) 896-0400
email pwebster@buchalter.com
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Biography

Pamela Kohlman Webster is the Chief Financial Officer of Buchalter Nemer and a Shareholder in the firm’s Insolvency and Financial Solutions Practice Group.

Ms. Webster’s practice includes corporate reorganizations, insolvency, bankruptcy, workouts and liquidations, with a particular emphasis on regulated industries including insurance companies, healthcare providers, and financial institutions. Ms. Webster's more significant assignments include:

Large subprime lender in asset disposition (counsel to the company)

United Pacific Mortgage (counsel to the assignee for the benefit of creditors)

WATTSHealth Foundation, Inc. (counsel to the conservator)

Mission Insurance Group, Inc., et al. (counsel to the debtor)

Angeles Corporation, Casablanca Fan Company (counsel to the creditors' committee)

Illuminations.com, Megafoods, Inc., Formica Corporation, Lux Corporation, Cosmotronics, Equative, Inc. (counsel to the lender)

Bermuda Fire & Marine, Fremont Reinsurance Company (counsel to the administrator)

Papaho Corporation (counsel to the trustee)

Crazy Shirts, Edwards Cinemas bankruptcy cases (representation of other significant parties)

Ms. Webster represented the prevailing party in In re Grand Chevrolet, Inc., 25 F. 3d 728 (9th Cir. 1994)(cert denied), establishing that late payments could nonetheless be safe from preference attack if the debtor had a past practice of paying late.

Ms. Webster's publications include:

“My Landlord Just Filed for Bankruptcy—What Happens Now?” Points and Authorities, Winter/Spring 2009

“If It Walks Like A Duck…Substance Over Form in the Bankruptcy Courts,” Points and Authorities, Fall 2004

“Practical Bankruptcy Law,” West 3d ed., 2003

“The Malpractice of Health Care Bankruptcy Reform,” 32 Loyola L.R. 1045, 1999

“Creditors' Plans,” ABI, 1995

“The Liquidation and Reorganization of Foreign Insurance Companies in the United States Bankruptcy Courts,” Mealy's, 1994

“Insurance Companies in Bankruptcy Court: Alien Insurers Boldly Go Where No Domestic Insurer Has Gone Before,” Reinsurance and Regulatory Report, June 1994

Ms. Webster has been selected as one of Southern California's Super Lawyers seven times from 2004 to 2010 and was also selected as a Southern California Super Lawyer, Corporate Counsel Edition from 2009 to 2010. She is also recognized by Chambers and Partners as a leader in the field of Bankruptcy and Restructuring. Ms. Webster is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, a member of the Insolvency Law Committee of the California State Bar’s Business Law Section, and is a past Chair of the State Bar Committee on Federal Courts. She lectures frequently on insolvency, law firm management, and issues facing women in the legal profession.

Ms. Webster earned her J.D. at the University of California, Davis in 1982.

Areas of Practice

• Financial Solutions
• Bankruptcy
• Insolvency
• Workouts

Bar Admissions

• California