California Creditor's Rights & Business Bankruptcy Lawyer & Attorney : Robert Eisenbach : Business Bankruptcy Blog

Robert L. Eisenbach III, who goes by Bob, is a partner in Cooley Godward Kronish’s Bankruptcy & Restructuring group. He joined his Firm in 1986 and is the Partner in Charge of the San Francisco office.

Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law, and recognized as one of Northern California’s Super Lawyers®, Bob focuses his practice on bankruptcy and restructuring matters and is regularly involved in cases throughout the country, including California, Delaware and New York. He represents unsecured creditors’ committees in Chapter 11 cases in a range of industries, including computer technology, biotechnology, healthcare and retail, and frequently guides companies and their boards of directors through Chapter 11 and out-of-court restructurings. He is often asked by purchasers to help them navigate the unique issues involved when buying assets from financially troubled or bankrupt companies. Bob has represented clients in a wide variety of bankruptcy-related litigation, director and officer liability litigation, complex commercial litigation and intellectual property cases.

Bob has also developed a national reputation for helping clients deal with the intersection of intellectual property and bankruptcy law, representing licensors, licensees and others on these complex issues. He has served as Vice-Chair of the Subcommittee on Technology-Oriented Bankruptcies of the Business Bankruptcy Committee of the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section and is a frequent speaker on the interplay between bankruptcy and intellectual property law, as well as other aspects of bankruptcy law.

Before joining Cooley, Bob served as a law clerk to the late Judge Albert Tate Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans. He received a J.D. in 1985 from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif, and completed his undergraduate education at Louisiana State University, where he graduated in 1982, summa cum laude, with a B.A. in political science and economics. Upon graduation from LSU, he was awarded the University Medal for Highest Academic Achievement and received a Phi Kappa Phi National Graduate Fellowship.