“Christopher humanizes, warms, and enhances the practice of law in a way that must be celebrated and emulated.”
Christopher K.S. Wong is an associate in the Bankruptcy & Financial Restructuring group of ArentFox Schiff LLP in Los Angeles. He specializes in business and financial restructuring matters, and advises companies in navigating the chapter 11 process, out-of-court workouts, and corporate and debt financing transactions. For clients looking for opportunities in the distressed market, a sizable portion of his practice is dedicated to representing sellers, stalking-horse bidders and over-bidders in court-supervised § 363 asset sales. Mr. Wong’s recent cases involve sales of the going-concern assets of an automotive driving experience company in Las Vegas, an open-air shopping mall in Southern California, and the intellectual property assets of a pharmaceutical company based in Northern California. He works with creditors’ committees, trustees and institutional clients, conducting corporate governance and financial mismanagement-related investigations of companies in various industries, including sports, nonprofit, retail, entertainment, health and fitness, and technology. In this capacity, he regularly serves as outside counsel to the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee in conducting investigations of national governing bodies on their compliance with the Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act and the USOPC Bylaws. Previously, Mr. Wong clerked for Hon. Maureen Tighe of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California and as a legal intern in the corporate in-house department for SunPower Corp., a publicly traded renewable energy company. He also worked as a legal intern at the fifth-largest law firm in China, All- Bright Law Offices, in Shanghai in the firm’s general commercial, corporate and M&A department. Mr. Wong is a member of ABI and the California Bankruptcy Forum, Sports Lawyers Association and Southern California Chinese Lawyers Association. He also is a member of the Small Business Reorganization Task Force of the Central District of California Bankruptcy Court, with particular emphasis on outreach to Los Angeles-based businesses in minority communities. Mr. Wong is a 2022 ABI “40 Under 40” honoree and has been listed in Legal 500 as a “Key Lawyer” (2024) and in Super Lawyers as one of the “Ones to Watch” for Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law (2022-24). He received his B.A. in political science and international relations from the University of California, Los Angeles and his J.D. from the University of California, San Francisco College of the Law, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Hastings International and Comparative Law Review and as vice president of the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association.