Andrew E. Mina

Senior Associate

  • Andrew E. Mina
  • Phone: +1 213 689 7425

    Import to Address Book

  • Duane Morris LLP
    865 South Figueroa Street, Suite 3100
    Los Angeles, CA 90017-5450
    USA

Andrew E. Mina practices in the areas of litigation and bankruptcy with a focus on the representation of financial institutions in financial services disputes.

Mr. Mina has represented corporations, banks, and loan service companies in complex commercial litigation matters, including consumer lending litigation. He has also successfully represented clients in federal and state courts involving products liability disputes, business partnership disputes, and complex real estate disputes.

Mr. Mina has significant experience advising insurers and secured and unsecured creditors in chapter 11 bankruptcy cases.  He has represented clients in numerous complex bankruptcy cases such as In re the Diocese of Rockville Centre, New York and In re Diocese of Camden, New Jersey. 

Mr. Mina has negotiated settlements in dozens of cases, through settlement discussions and by attending mediations, mandatory settlement conferences, and other forms of alternative dispute resolution for matters in both federal and state courts.

Mr. Mina practices throughout the United States, recently having handled matters in the courts of California, New York, and New Jersey.

Mr. Mina is a 2018 graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law and a magna cum laude graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles. He is fluent in spoken Arabic.

Areas of Practice

  • Commercial Litigation

  • Reorganization and Finance Law

  • Business Bankruptcy

  • Creditors' Rights

Admissions

  • California
  • U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Education

  • University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, J.D., 2018
  • University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., magna cum laude, 2015

Experience

  • Duane Morris LLP
    - Senior Associate, 2025-present
    - Associate, 2020-2024
  • Houser LLP
    - Associate, 2019-2020
  • Blakeley LLP
    - Associate, 2018-2019

Civic and Charitable Activities

  • Saint Maurice Coptic Orthodox Church
    - Church Oversight Committee-Operations Officer, September 2009-present

Representative Matters

  • Represented a national mortgage loan servicing company and bank in the United States District in the Central District Court of California in obtaining a favorable settlement and the dismissal of a lawsuit where the plaintiff alleged that the original loan servicer violated a bankruptcy court order and improperly serviced the plaintiff’s mortgage.

  • Represented an insurer in a complex chapter 11 bankruptcy of a Catholic Diocese facing hundreds sexual abuse claims; negotiated and drafted the settlement agreement that the client found favorable which included a buy-back of coverage, free and clear of all claims.