Jeffrey Garfinkle

Practice Areas

Insolvency & Financial Law Group

Health Care Law

Equipment Leasing

Fiduciaries, Receivers & Trustees

Consumer Products & Apparel

Entertainment Industry Law

Health Care & Life Sciences

Alternative Lenders

Career

Jeff Garfinkle represents secured and unsecured creditors, creditors’ committees, trustees, equity receivers, debtors, and other parties in a variety of bankruptcy, restructuring cases and collection matters, including out of court workouts. Jeff also specializes in matters pertaining to Articles 2 and 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code and asset sales of bankrupt and financially-troubled companies.

Jeff is regarded as one of the nation’s leading healthcare and pharmaceutical insolvency attorneys. For 25 years, he has served as primary U.S. insolvency, bankruptcy and collections counsel to the world’s largest healthcare corporation. In this capacity, Jeff has handled hundreds of healthcare and pharmaceutical-related bankruptcy and restructuring matters. Beyond this work, Jeff has represented committees, debtors, creditors and other parties in dozens of other healthcare bankruptcy cases. The depth and extent of Jeff’s healthcare and pharmaceutical bankruptcy expertise is unparalleled.

As a recognized expert on bankruptcy, healthcare, pharmaceutical, debt financing, and commercial law issues, Jeff has spoken at numerous conferences, including those held by the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, American Bankruptcy Institute, and American Bar Association.

For 2025, Jeff again is recognized as one of the Best Lawyers in America in the area of Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights, Insolvency and Reorganization Law, and Banking and Finance Law. He is recognized by Chambers USA as a leader in the field of Bankruptcy/Restructuring. Jeff is the immediate past President of the Board of Governors of the Financial Lawyers Conference and recently served as Chair for the Commercial and Regulatory Law Committee of the American Bankruptcy Institute.

Jeff joined Buchalter in 2003 following 12 years with an international law firm and a one-year clerkship with the Honorable Louise DeCarl Adler, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of California. In addition to practicing before the United States Supreme Court, Jeff has argued appeals in six Federal Courts of Appeals and handled bankruptcy and bankruptcy-related litigation matters in dozens of districts throughout the United States.