Rob Saunders, NACD.DC, is a restructuring and transactional attorney at Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP, representing debtors, creditors’ committees, and acquirers in Chapter 11 cases, as well as assignees and acquirers in state-law assignments for the benefit of creditors (ABCs). He was named Best Lawyers’ 2023 Los Angeles “Lawyer of the Year” for Litigation-Bankruptcy, and has been named a Super Lawyer and one of Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Global Bankruptcy & Restructuring  Lawyers. Rob is a past President of the Southern California chapter of the Turnaround Management Association (TMA). He serves on TMA Global’s Executive Board and Board of Trustees; he is Chair of the Chapter Presidents Council and will serve in 2026 as VP International Relations. He is also on the boards of Financial Lawyers Conference (as its Secretary) and the Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum. He advises the Uniform Law Commission’s ABC Uniform Law drafting committee and is a co-author of the latest edition of American Bankruptcy Institute’s book General Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors: The ABCs of ABCs. A University of Chicago Law School alumnus, Rob is admitted in California, New York, and Florida.