Kizzy Jarashow

Kizzy Jarashow is a partner in Goodwin’s Financial Restructuring practice. She joined the firm in 2019.

Kizzy represents debtors, creditors, equity holders, sponsors, special situations investors and other stakeholders in all aspects of complex corporate restructurings, including Chapter 11 cases, out-of-court restructurings, work-outs, and distressed debt investments and acquisitions. Kizzy has represented clients in a variety of industries, including energy, retail, technology, manufacturing, health care, automotive, media, hospitality and gaming, education, financial services and real estate.

Kizzy’s representative matters include representing major stakeholders in the following matters:

Prior to joining Goodwin, Kizzy was Vice President and Assistant General Counsel in the Corporate and Investment Bank of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. She has also worked as a financial restructuring associate in the New York offices of Stutman, Treister & Glatt, Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman and Morgan Lewis & Bockius. During law school, she served as a judicial extern to The Honorable Barbara S. Jones of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Kizzy is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute and the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC) and serves on the Boards of IWIRC and VALCON (American Bankruptcy Institute).

Kizzy has been recognized by the Legal 500 US in 2023 and 2025 for her work in Restructuring (including Bankruptcy): Corporate.

In recognition of her work, Kizzy was selected as a 2017 Rising Star in Bankruptcy by Super Lawyers, a member of Class V of the International Insolvency Institutes’ NextGen Leadership Program (2016), and a member of the Next Generation Program for the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges (2016)

In law school, Kizzy was notes and articles editor of the Fordham Journal of Corporate and Financial Law.

Kizzy has authored or co-authored a number of articles related to bankruptcy, restructuring and insolvency, including:

• Quoted, “Generative AI: Explainability in Bankruptcy Cases,” Practical Law, January 2025
• Co-Author, “Bankrupt in the Metaverse,” Thomas Reuters Practical Law, December 1, 2023
• Co-Author, “Why Delaware ABCs Are No Longer As Easy As 1-2-3,” Law 360, October 25, 2023
• Co-Author, “Top 10 Intellectual Property License Issues in Bankruptcy,” Goodwin, 2023
• Co-Author, “Bankrupt in the Metaverse,” Thomson Reuters Practical Law, June 30, 2023
• Co-Author, “Intercreditor Agreements and the Bankruptcy Code," Journal of Bankruptcy Law, 2022
• Co-Author, "Triumph for Energy Future Noteholders in Third Circuit Make Whole Opinion", Goodwin Client Alert, November 18, 2016
• Panelist, "International Insolvency and Arbitration, Next General Program," 16^th Annual International Insolvency Conference: Tokyo, Japan, June 5, 2016
• Co-Author, "In re Fairfield Sentry – Narrow Grounds to Modify Chapter 11 Recognition Do Not Include Inconsistent Positions Taken By Foreign Representative," Insolvency and Restructuring International, March 2016
• Co-Author, "For This Moment: Distinction Between Present Value and Interest," American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, July 2015
• Co-Author, "Rehearing Petition Dramatizes Second Circuit's Comity Rejection," INSOL International, Nov. 20, 2014
• Co-Author, "Second Circuit Fails to See the Comity in Chapter 15," International Bar Association – Insolvency and Restructuring International, Oct. 14, 2014
• "In re Bank United Fin. Corp.: Eleventh Circuit Holds That Tax Refunds Of Consolidated Group Subject To A Tax Sharing Agreement Are Not Assets Of Corporate Parent's Bankruptcy Estate," Stutman, Treister & Glatt Case Alert, Aug. 23, 2013
• Author, "In re School Specialty, Inc.: Delaware Bankruptcy Court Upholds Secured Lender's "Make-Whole" Claim Co Under New York Law," Stutman, Treister & Glatt Case Alert, Apr. 29, 2013
• Co-Author, "In re River Road Hotel Partners, LLC: Credit Bidding Circuit Split May Sail Up to the Supreme Court," 20 J. Bankr. L. & Prac. 805, 2011
• Author, "Bankruptcy Court Uses Twombly Pleading Standard as Platform to Clarify Lender Liability Law," ABI Committee Newsletter, Vol. 9, No. 9, September 2010
• "Third Circuit Bids Credit Bidding Adieu," 19 J. Bankr. L. & Prac. 265, 2010
• Co-Author, "The Enron Enigma: Claims Trading At Its Fuzziest," Morgan Lewis Business & Finance Newsletter, Fall/Winter 2007)

• Panelist, “A Glimpse into The Future: AI, the Metaverse and the Insolvency Profession,” ABA Business Law Section Webinar, February 22, 2024
• Moderator, “The Use of AI in Valuation Models/Impact of AI on Valuation/Impact of Generative AI on IP Valuations,” VALCON 2024, March 19, 2024
• Panelist, “AI Panel,” IWIRC's 30th Annual Fall Conference, October 11, 2023
• Panelist, “Emerging Law on Digital Assets in Bankruptcy,” Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference, September 7, 2023
• Panelist, “Creative Options in the Distressed Market,” NY Life’s REI National Conference, May 10, 2023
• Panelist, "Alternative Energy & Renewables," American Bankruptcy Institute's VALCON, 2021