Stacy L.
Newman

Stacy is a member of the firm’s Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring Department and is based in the Delaware office. 

Experience

Stacy focuses her practice on corporate bankruptcy, business restructuring and other insolvency-related matters. She has extensive experience representing a wide range of stakeholders, including corporate debtors, reorganized debtors, lenders, official and unofficial committees, secured and unsecured creditor constituencies, trustees, commercial landlords, lienholders, contract counterparties, acquirers of distressed assets, significant equity holders and directors and officers in chapter 7 and chapter 11 proceedings. She also maintains a bankruptcy litigation practice involving preferences, fraudulent transfers and state law claims. In addition to her restructuring practice, Stacy has experience representing clients in corporate and commercial litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery and Superior Court of Delaware.

Stacy graduated cum laude from Albany Law School of Union University. While in law school, she was the Managing Editor of the Albany Law Review. Prior to law school, Stacy graduated cum laude with a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Delaware.

NETWORKS & AFFILIATIONS

Dedicated to the practice of law and in service to the next generation of lawyers, Stacy serves as a mentor to law school students attending Wilmington University School of Law and acts as a guardian ad litem for children in foster care. Additionally, Stacy is the Chair of the Delaware State Bar Association Bankruptcy Law Section and has served on the board and committees of the Turnaround Management Association-Philadelphia/Wilmington chapter. She has also served on the planning committee for the American Bankruptcy Institute Views from the Bench and Delaware Views from the Bench. Stacy is a member of International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWRIC), Delaware Bankruptcy American Inn of Court (DBIC), Turnaround Management Association (TMA) and American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI).

HONORS & AWARDS

Renowned for her bankruptcy and corporate restructuring practice, Stacy is included on IFLR1000’s list of prominent Delaware restructuring and insolvency attorneys where she is featured as a Notable Practitioner. She is also recognized as an Up-and-Coming individual for her bankruptcy/restructuring practice by Chambers USA.

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