Deborah J. Newman

Deborah J. Newman is a partner in Quinn Emanuel’s New York Office. Her practice focuses on bankruptcy-related litigation and complex commercial litigation. Ms. Newman represents creditors, bondholders, indenture trustees, hedge funds, institutional investors, creditor committees and debtors in the full range of complex litigation matters arising in the course of chapter 11 restructurings, cross-border insolvencies and other bankruptcy contexts, as well as other complex commercial litigations occurring in state and federal courts. Ms. Newman has litigated some of the most cutting-edge issues in bankruptcy litigation, including the treatment of original issue discount under the Bankruptcy Code, the appropriate cram down interest rate for a secured creditor, the applicability of section 546(e) of the Bankruptcy Code to constructive fraudulent conveyance claims, and individual creditors’ ability to pursue fraudulent conveyance actions following a debtor’s bankruptcy filing.  Ms. Newman also has wide-ranging experience in complex commercial litigation occurring outside of the bankruptcy courts, including by recently obtaining a ruling from the First Department of the Appellate Division of New York reversing a lower court decision and dismissing with prejudice an action seeking more than $90 million.

Ms. Newman graduated from the University of Michigan with honors in 1997 and received her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law in 2002. She was selected as a 2016 “Rising Star” in bankruptcy litigation by Law360.