Education
- University of California at Berkeley (B.A. 1991, with honors)
- Yale Law School (J.D. 1995)
Bar & Court Admissions
- 1996, California
Attorneys
Victoria A. Newmark
Ms. Newmark has extensive experience as a bankruptcy lawyer, including representation of debtors, creditors, and equity holders in chapter 11 reorganization cases. She has also represented buyers and sellers in acquisitions and sales of distressed assets, and borrowers and lenders in loan originations and out-of-court work-outs. Ms. Newmark is a graduate of UC Berkeley and received her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was an editor of the Yale Law Journal and managing editor of the Yale Journal of International Law. She co-authored an article on trade vendor rights legislation under the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005. She has also been recognized annually ever year from 2004 to 2010 as a Southern California Rising Star in the Law & Politics Media Inc. survey published in Los Angeles Magazine and the Southern California edition of Super Lawyers. Ms. Newmark is admitted to practice in California and is a resident of our Los Angeles office.
Publications
- Coauthor with D. Grassgreen, J. Lucas & M. Seidl: First Day Motions: A Guide to the Critical First Days of a Bankruptcy Case (ABI 3d ed. 2012)
- Coauthor, "Tradeoffs," The Deal (May 23, 2005)
Representations
- Represented a subprime mortgage loan originator and servicer, the nation's second-largest at the time of its chapter 11 filing, as debtor's counsel
- Represented the purchaser of a mid-size nutritional supplements distributorship in contested bankruptcy auction proceedings
- Represented a publicly held ISP and global online media content company and its affiliates as debtors' counsel in their chapter 11 cases
- Represented the seed investor and acquirer of a California specialty retail business pursuant to section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code