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Kenneth N. Klee is a member of KTBS and a Professor at the UCLA School of Law. Mr. Klee was admitted to practice in 1975 before the bars of California and District of Columbia. He was admitted to the New York bar in 1996. His preparatory education was at Stanford University where he received his A.B. in Economics, with great distinction, in 1971. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa fraternity. He earned his J.D. degree from Harvard University, graduating cum laude, in 1974.
Consulting Activities
Service on Editorial Boards
Service to Educational and Governmental Agencies
Invited Lectures and Papers
Media Appearances
Mr. Klee served as a contributing editor to Collier on Bankruptcy from 1979 until 1996 and a consulting editor from 1980 to 1996.
At the UCLA School of Law, Mr. Klee teaches courses in bankruptcy law and Chapter 11 business reorganizations law, and a business simulation/clinical course dedicated to the topic of creating value through the renegotiation of business agreements. During the 1995-96 academic year, Professor Klee taught courses in bankruptcy and a seminar in business reorganizations at Harvard Law School as the Robert Braucher Visiting Professor from Practice. He taught the course "Chapter 11 Business Reorganizations" at the UCLA School of Law from 1979-94 and in 1997, and at the University of Southern California Law Center in 1983.
Mr. Klee has participated, since 1975, on several hundred programs for the continuing education of the bar in the area of bankruptcy and business reorganizations. He is serving for a second time as a Lawyer Representative to the 9th Circuit Judicial Conference. Mr. Klee also serves as a member of The American Law Institute and was an Adviser on its Transnational Insolvency Project. In addition, he is a founding member of the International Insolvency Institute. Mr. Klee is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Financial Lawyers Conference of Los Angeles. He served as member of the executive committee of the National Bankruptcy Conference from 1985 to 1988 and 1992 to 2000 and served as Chair of the National Bankruptcy Conference's legislation committee from 1992-2000. Mr. Klee was Associate Counsel, Committee on Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives 1974-1977, where he was a principal draftsperson of the Bankruptcy Code. Since then, he has served periodically as a bankruptcy consultant to the House Judiciary Committee, 1977-1982, and to the United States Department of Justice, 1983-1984.
Mr. Klee served from 1992-2000 as a member of the Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules of the United States Judicial Conference. In June, 1994, he led a mission to China sponsored by the International Republican Institute to assist in the writing of the Chinese Bankruptcy Laws.
Representative clients of Mr. Klee have included: Equity investors in 203 N. La Salle Street Assocs.; Boston Chicken Plan Trust as majority equity owner of Einstein/Noah Bagel Corp.; First Trust and Bank of New York, trustees, as appellees before the New York Court of Appeals and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Chemical Bank v. First Trust (In re Southeast Banking Corp.); Maxwell Communication Corp. PLC, as appellant before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Maxwell Communication Corp. PLC v. Societe Generale, et al; the out-of-court Bondholders' Steering Committee in Primestar; 400 South Hope Street Associates L.P., in which he served as lead debtor's counsel; the debtors in Barney's Inc., et al, as debtors' special counsel; the debtors in Anacomp, Inc.; the debtors in Sun World; the debtors in the five administratively consolidated Standard Brands Paint Company cases; the debtor in Financial Corporation of America; the creditors' committees in the Adelphia, Del Taco, Iridium, Papercraft and Griffin Resorts, Inc. chapter 11 cases; the noteholders' committee in PG&E National Energy Group, the out-of-court bondholders' committees in the Charter Medical and Orion Pictures restructurings; and Pennzoil, in the Texaco Inc. chapter 11 case. He also has served as an expert witness in over 40 matters. | 