Joshua M. Fried

Joshua Fried, resident in the firm’s San Francisco office, has significant experience representing debtors and creditors’ committees in large chapter 11 cases throughout the county, including True Religion, Prince Sports, Filene’s Basement, Fresh Choice, and Champion Enterprises. He has been listed in every edition of Best Lawyers in America since 2019 for his work in Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law. Josh is a graduate of Rutgers University, received his J.D. magna cum laude from Pepperdine School of Law, and an MBA from Cal State Northridge.

Clerkships

•Judicial law clerk, Judge Richard T. Ford (Bankr. E.D. Cal.)
•Judicial law clerk, Judge Vincent P. Zurzolo (Bankr. C.D. Cal.)

Programs & Lectures

Turnaround Management Association (Northern California chapter), Practising Law Institute

Publications

•Co-author, “Financing the Debtor in Possession,” in Norton Bankruptcy Law & Practice (3d ed.)
•Co-author, “Measuring Anticompetitive Effects of Mergers When Buyer Power Is Concentrated,” 79 Texas Law Review 6 (2001)

News

PSZJ Attorneys Named in 2025 Edition of Best Lawyers in America and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch

August 15, 2024

PSZJ Attorneys Named in 2024 Edition of Best Lawyers in America

August 17, 2023

PSZJ Attorneys Named in 2023 Edition of Best Lawyers in America

August 18, 2022

PSZJ Attorneys Named in 2022 Edition of Best Lawyers in America

August 19, 2021

PSZJ Attorneys Named in 2021 Edition of Best Lawyers in America

August 20, 2020

PSZJ Attorneys Named in Best Lawyers in America

August 15, 2019

PSZJ Attorneys Named in Best Lawyers in America

August 15, 2018

Solyndra Bankruptcy Reorganization Wins ACG Energy Deal of the Year

June 1, 2013

Auction for Digital Domain Assets Produces $30M - Double Opening Bid

September 24, 2012

Prince Sports Confirms Reorganization Plan; Shifts From Manufacturing Business to Licensing Operation

August 1, 2012

Pachulski Stang Wins Corporate Turnaround Deal of the Year Award

June 1, 2011

Successful Retail Liquidation: Plan Confirmed in Filene's Basement Chapter 11 Case

January 26, 2010

Events

Cross-Border Avoidance Transactions

American Bankruptcy Institute Cross-Border Insolvency Program New York, November 7, 2017

The Shifting Retail Landscape-Are America’s Malls Dying?

7th Annual TMA Western Regional Conference Carlsbad CA, July 17, 2015

The Court Approved Your Employment as a Professional: Why Should You Be Paid?

Turnaround Management Association Western Regional Conference Laguna Beach CA, July 9, 2014

Year-End Restructuring Market Event: A Preview of 2014 Capital Markets and an Understanding of the Increasing Impact of Private Equity & Hedge Funds on the Restructuring Process

Turnaround Management Association November 21, 2013

Use, Sale, & Lease of Property and Financing Bankruptcy Cases

Nuts & Bolts of Corporate Bankruptcy 2012 November 5, 2012

Making the Technology Industry Tick

Growing, Fixing, Restructuring, Financing, and Investing in the Business: An Insider's View June 28, 2012