Rika M. Kido - Irvine, CA

Rika M. Kido is a partner at Shulman Bastian Friedman Bui & O’Dea LLP in Irvine. Ms. Kido is a member of the firm’s bankruptcy and transactional departments. Ms. Kido’s practice focuses on all aspects of bankruptcy, including representing trustees, debtors, creditors, plaintiffs, and defendants in adversary proceedings. She has assisted her trustee clients sell a variety of assets, including intellectual property, claims in pending litigation and real property. Ms. Kido’s practice also focuses on providing advice to clients on real estate related transactions, corporate formation and governance, and ongoing business transactions.

Ms. Kido was selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America from 2024 through 2026. Ms. Kido was also selected for inclusion in Rising Stars of Southern California Super Lawyers Magazine in 2018, 2020 and 2021.

Ms. Kido is very active the legal community. She is currently Co-Chair for the California Bankruptcy Forum's 38th Annual Insolvency Conference (May 2026). She was the President of the Orange County Bankruptcy Forum from 2023 to 2024. She recently served as Education Co-Chair for the California Bankruptcy Forum's 37th Annual Insolvency Conference (May 2025) after serving as Consumer Co-Chair for the California Bankruptcy Forum's 36th Annual Insolvency Conference (May 2024). She was also the President of the Orange County Bankruptcy Forum from 2023 to 2024.

She was a featured speaker in July 2023 for an Orange County Bar Association’s Commercial Law & Bankruptcy Section panel, “Navigating Section 363 Sales in 2023." She has also co-produced several panels for the California Bankruptcy Forum’s Annual Insolvency Conference, including “Dealer’s Choice: The Benefits of RSAs and PSAs" in May 2023, “Should I Stay or Should I Go? Enforcing Arbitration Agreements in Bankruptcy Proceedings” in May 2022, and “JAWS: A Judge’s Discussion of Best Practices for Effective Advocacy Revisited” in May 2014.

Ms. Kido grew up in Orange County and attended Santa Margarita Catholic High School before she obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Japanese from Middlebury College in Vermont in 2003. She then moved back to California and earned her Master of International Affairs in 2007 from the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego, and her Juris Doctorate from the University of San Francisco School of Law in 2010.