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Allison  Rego
OVERVIEW

Allison Rego

Partner

San Diego

655 W. Broadway
Suite 1300
San Diego, CA 92101

Los Angeles

2029 Century Park East
Suite 300
Los Angeles, CA 90067

P 619-321-5003

M 424-386-4963

F 310-284-3894

Allison Rego is committed to maximizing recovery for clients involved in a variety of insolvency-related events and complex litigation. Regardless of the difficulty of the matter at hand, Allison seeks to create strategies in and out of court that will best serve the clients’ interests.

OVERVIEW

Allison Rego is committed to maximizing recovery for clients involved in a variety of insolvency-related events and complex litigation. Regardless of the difficulty of the matter at hand, Allison seeks to create strategies in and out of court that will best serve the clients’ interests.

Allison focuses her practice on commercial law, bankruptcy and financial restructuring, as well as related litigation and appeals. Her clients include creditors, asset purchasers, trustees and committees in reorganizations and liquidations in jurisdictions throughout the United States.

Allison has been involved in a wide array of bankruptcy and restructuring-related matters. She has served on teams that have represented creditor interests in insolvency events in real estate, oil and gas, entertainment and manufacturing. In addition, Allison has represented a range of clients in business related tort and contract issues.

Notably, Allison has co-authored articles that appeared in the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal. As part of her work with the San Diego Bankruptcy Forum, she moderated a panel on the interplay between the bankruptcy and state courts featuring members of both benches.

While in law school, Allison was an extern for the Honorable Janis L. Sammartino of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California and for the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown of the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit.

Professional and Community Involvement

Member, Advisory Board and Local Bankruptcy Rules Committee for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of California

Board member, San Diego Bankruptcy Forum

Former bankruptcy liaison, Federal Bar Association San Diego Chapter

Member, American Bankruptcy Institute

Member, California Bankruptcy Forum

Honors

The Best Lawyers in America, 2025; Ones to Watch, 2021-2023

The San Diego Business Journal Women of Influence, 2024

Experience
  • Represented a joint venture holding a senior secured loan on an age-restricted apartment complex in Las Vegas in a Chapter 11 case, that involved numerous plan and claim related issues, resulting in a favorable outcome 
  • Represented the liquidating trustee of a natural gas exploration and development company in pursuing complex litigation claims in the District of Delaware and the Northern District of Oklahoma
  • Represented the official committee of unsecured creditors in the Chapter 11 case of a modular manufacturing and leasing company filed in the District of Utah, obtaining recovery for unsecured creditors through a structured dismissal of the case after a sale of the debtor’s assets
  • Represented a creditor who provided advertising services to debtor company in defense and resolution of preference claims in a Chapter 7 case in the Southern District of Indiana 
  • Represented an international medical device distributor in Chapter 11 case in the Northern District of Texas in assumption of distribution agreement
  • Represented a Chapter 7 debtor in the Southern District of California in contested matter relating to whether certain employer provided benefits constituted property of the estate
  • Represented a trust asserting a claim stemming from a pre-bankruptcy corporate dissolution action under state law in a Chapter 11 case in the Central District of California
  • Represented a film finance lender asserting claim in a Chapter 11 case in the Central District of California

    *Some of this experience occurred prior to joining Barnes & Thornburg
Publications
  • “Litigation Finance and the Issues It Creates in Bankruptcy,” co-authored with Ali Mojdehi and Janet Dean Gertz, ABI Journal, April 2018
  • “Hope for a ‘Cure’? Entz-White Was Superseded by Enactment of § 1123(d),” co-authored with Ali Mojdehi and Janet Dean Gertz, ABI Journal, January 2017
 
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