Bennett J. Murphy

Mr. Murphy is co-head of the Business Reorganization & Bankruptcy department at HBD. He joined the firm in 2000 after fifteen years with Latham & Watkins in Los Angeles and New York.

Mr. Murphy has spent his entire career as a bankruptcy lawyer. Among other matters, he has represented creditors’ committees in the cases of Continental Airlines, Orange County, Sizzler Restaurants, Wilshire Financial Services Group, Dade-Behring, WorldCom, and Solutia. He has been counsel to the Chapter 7 trustee for Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, and was special litigation counsel to the LTV Steel Company in its widely followed litigation over securitization issues.

News

• Chambers USA 2010 Profiles HBD Partners Among Its Leading Lawyers In The United States and Rates HBD’s Business Reorganization & Bankruptcy Practice Group In The Top Five In California
• HBD Partner Ben Murphy Speaks at Northern District of California Judicial Conference
• Former Brobeck Partners, New Firms Must Pay Back Bankrupt Estate
• Chambers USA 2009 Profiles HBD Partners Among Its Leading Lawyers In The United States And Rates HBD’s Business Reorganization & Bankruptcy Practice Group In The Top Ten In California
• Banking on Bankruptcy
• Chambers USA 2008 Profiles HBD partners among its Leading Lawyers in the United States

Seminars

Mr. Murphy is a frequent panelist on bankruptcy matters at ABA and other professional conferences.

Professional Affiliations

• California State Bar Insolvency Committee, 2000-03 term
• American Bankruptcy Institute
• Los Angeles County Bar
• Bankruptcy Committee
• Association of the Bar of the City of New York