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Description of Practice:
Debbie is resident in Allen Matkins' San Diego office. She focuses her practice on bankruptcy and creditors' rights issues. She has experience in many aspects of this area of law. She has represented debtors in possession and creditors' committees in complex commercial Chapter 11 proceedings and has handled all aspects of a case from pre-bankruptcy planning through plan confirmation, as well as post-confirmation matters.
Debbie is experienced in workouts, out of court compositions, and business reorganizations/restructurings. She has represented secured creditors, court-appointed receivers, institutional investors, landlords, and trustees. Debbie has also been involved in the purchase and sale of millions of dollars of distressed assets. Debbie also has experience prosecuting and defending involuntary petitions in bankruptcy, representing assignees and handling assignments for the benefit of creditors, and prosecuting and defending preference and fraudulent conveyance actions. Her extensive experience covers a wide array of industries, including manufacturing, dietary supplements, technology, health-care, real estate, and lending.
Prior to joining Allen Matkins, Debbie was a partner at McDermott Will & Emery in Chicago where she was involved in many prominent and complex bankruptcy cases and workouts. Before embarking on the practice of law, Debbie was a certified public accountant in the State of Connecticut and maintained an audit and consulting practice with a predecessor to Ernst & Young.
Debbie is admitted to practice law in California, Illinois, and Connecticut.
Debbie is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, the International Womens' Insolvency Restructuring Confederation, the Turnaround Management Association, the Association of Insolvency & Restructuring Advisors, and the San Diego Bankruptcy Forum.
Educational History:
Ms. Riley received her B.S. from Quinnipiac University, summa cum laude, her MBA from the University of Hartford, and her J.D. from the University of San Diego School of Law in 1990. She clerked for the Honorable Peter W. Bowie in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of California from 1989 through 1991. | 