{"id":163568,"date":"2026-09-25T14:03:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T22:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/25\/buchalter-welcomes-bankruptcy-and-restructuring-partner-bill-smelko-to-san-diego-office\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T14:03:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T22:03:01","slug":"buchalter-welcomes-bankruptcy-and-restructuring-partner-bill-smelko-to-san-diego-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/25\/buchalter-welcomes-bankruptcy-and-restructuring-partner-bill-smelko-to-san-diego-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Buchalter Welcomes Bankruptcy and Restructuring Partner Bill Smelko to San Diego Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO, CA\u2014Buchalter announced that Bill Smelko has joined the firm as Partner in its San Diego office as a member of the Insolvency and Financial Law Practice Group.<\/p>\n<p>Smelko focuses on business bankruptcy, restructuring, and corporate governance disputes, representing financial institutions, creditors, debtors, and businesses in complex insolvency matters. He advises clients on plan confirmation disputes, asset disposition issues, stay relief litigation, lease disputes, and discharge-related proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/attorneyatlawmagazine.com\/talk-of-the-town\/buchalter-welcomes-bankruptcy-and-restructuring-partner-bill-smelko-to-san-diego-office\" target=\"_blank\">Buchalter Welcomes Bankruptcy and Restructuring Partner Bill Smelko to San Diego Office<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/attorneyatlawmagazine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Attorney at Law Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognizing you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful. Read our <a href=\"https:\/\/attorneyatlawmagazine.com\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO, CA\u2014Buchalter announced that Bill Smelko has joined the firm as Partner in its San Diego office as a member of the Insolvency and Financial Law Practice Group. Smelko focuses on business bankruptcy, restructuring, and corporate governance disputes, representing financial institutions, creditors, debtors, and businesses in complex insolvency matters. He advises clients on plan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal_matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}