Debra A. Riley

Debra represents municipalities, special districts, developers, and bondholders in connection with public finance issues, including out-of-court restructuring of community facilities districts and assessment district bonds, refunding/refinancing of public bonds, the purchase and sale of defaulted public securities, and the use of Chapter 9 proceedings to restructure public securities. She regularly handles issues involving adequate disclosure, indentures, fiscal agent agreements, and rate method and apportionment of special taxes, development agreements, acquisition agreements, reimbursement agreements, subdivision improvement agreements, surety bonds, and lien contracts.

Debra has also served as counsel for municipalities, special districts, developers, institutional investors, debtors, creditors' committees, and secured and unsecured creditors in complex out-of-court restructurings and Chapter 11 proceedings throughout the country, including California, Delaware and New York. Her experience covers a wide array of industries, including real estate, manufacturing, dietary supplements, subprime lending, technology, and healthcare.

Debra has significant experience in pre-negotiated, pre-planned bankruptcy cases resulting in efficient, effective, and timely restructurings. Debra has drafted plans of reorganization, disclosure statements and related plan implementation documents, and has handled contested matters involving debtor-in-possession financing, asset sales, plan confirmation, claim objections, and the assumption and assignment of executory contracts and unexpired leases and license agreements.

Prior to joining Allen Matkins, Debra was a partner at a national law firm in Chicago where she was involved in many nationally prominent bankruptcy cases and out-of-court restructurings of public and private debt.

Before embarking on the practice of law, Debra was a certified public accountant in Connecticut and maintained an audit and consulting practice with a predecessor to Ernst & Young.