Garrick A. Hollander, a co-founder and co-managing partner of Winthrop Golubow Hollander, LLP, devotes his practice to representing primarily corporate debtors in financial distress, using Chapter 11 bankruptcy or alternative insolvency strategies. While Garrick enjoys the powers in Chapter 11, he equally enjoys the ability to avoid Chapter 11 through the use of alternative strategies, such as out-of-court workouts and assignments for the benefit of creditors.

Garrick is a CPA with years of corporate finance and financial restructuring experience, which provides him with a unique business and financial understanding, perspective, and approach to his practice and representation of clients. Garrick views the cost of his services as an investment by his clients, always striving to provide his clients with the greatest return on investment.

Since 1982 through the present, Garrick has been establishing, acquiring, and operating businesses in a variety of industries. In 1988, he joined the audit department of a Big 8 accounting firm (Coopers & Lybrand). In 1992, he served as the judicial extern law clerk to the Honorable Barry Russell, United States Bankruptcy Court, Central District of California, and 9th Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel.

After practicing law with one of Southern California’s oldest boutique bankruptcy law firms, Garrick gained significant experience as a corporate financial turnaround advisor with a local boutique restructuring firm (Kibel Green), and thereafter with an international consulting firm (Ernst & Young), where he was a restructuring consultant in the Corporate Finance department.  Before joining the Winthrop firm, Garrick joined the executive management team of a dot.com.  Recognizing that they did not have a sustainable business model, Garrick decided to go back to the practice of bankruptcy law.

Garrick’s peers have repeatedly recognized him every year over the last decade as one of The Best Lawyers in America® in the area of Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law, as reported by U.S. News and World Report, and in 2020, his peers awarded him the honor of Attorney of the Year – Creditors/Debtors Rights.

Garrick was identified as a Rising Star in 2006, and has also achieved the status of one of the “Top Lawyers of Southern California” and “Top Lawyers of Orange County,” representing the top 5% of practicing attorneys in Southern California, as published in Super Lawyer and Coast Magazine since 2010. Garrick has been selected as one of the Top 50 Lawyers in Orange County for 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.