Ali Mojdehi

Mr. Mojdehi is a partner at the San Diego office of the law firm of Baker & McKenzie LLP, and chairs the firm's Financial Restructuring, Creditors' Rights and Bankruptcy Practice Group in North America. His practice concentrates on the representation, both in and out of court, of a wide-range of clients, including financial institutions, debtors-in-possession, creditors, bondholders, third party purchasers or investors, creditors' committees, and trustees in varied and numerous bankruptcies, receiverships and workouts across the United States and cross-border insolvencies implicating the laws of multiple jurisdictions. Mr. Mojdehi's practice is distinctive in that he handles debtors and creditors, as well as counseling boards on strategic transactions and restructurings.

Mr. Mojdehi regularly lectures to bar and lay groups and serves as a panelist on bankruptcy law for the Continuing Legal Education Programs of the University of San Diego School of Law and as Adjunct Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law.

Mr. Mojdehi is a member of the American Bar Association (Subcommittee on Chapter 11, Subcommittee on Sections 361-364 and Business Ethics Subcommittee, Section of Corporation, Legal Banking and Business Law) and the Board of the California Bankruptcy Forum. He is a former member of the Bankruptcy Rules and Practice Committee of United States Bankruptcy Court, District of Delaware and served as Chair of the Chapter 11 Rules Review Committee of United States Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of California. Mr. Mojdehi is also a member of the State Bars of Oklahoma and California.

Mr. Mojdehi was admitted to practice in Oklahoma in 1982 and California in 1986. He received his legal education at the University of Tulsa (J.D., 1982), where he was a member of Phi Delta Phi and the Articles Editor (1981-82) for the Tulsa Law Journal. Mr. Mojdehi received his undergraduate education at the College of William and Mary (B.A., 1978).