Ashley M. McDow

Ashley M. McDow is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP in Los Angeles and is an insolvency and commercial lawyer with experience representing parties on every side of a transaction, including debtors-in-possession and creditors’ committees, in both in-court and out-of-court restructurings. Her experience spans a wide and diverse array of industries, from health care to manufacturing, in chapters 7, 9 and 11.Ms. McDow is admitted to practice in California and Washington. She has been consistently recognized as an exemplary attorney by members of both the bankruptcy bar and the bankruptcy bench, and she is involved in a wide array of pro bono efforts, including on behalf of The Veterans Consortium. Ms.McDow has been listed since 2016 in Chambers USA for Bankruptcy/Restructuring in California and asa Southern California Super Lawyers “Rising Star” since 2011. She is the immediate past chair of both the Commercial Law Committee and the Executive Committee of the Commercial Law and BankruptcySection of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, serves on the editorial board of the California Bankruptcy Journal, and was hand-selected to serve on the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California’s Bar Advisory Board, an organization comprised of a number of bankruptcy judges currently serving on the bench in the Central District of California (including the chief bankruptcy judge),the U.S. Trustee for Region 16 and a few select restructuring practitioners who have demonstrated an unparalleled commitment to advancing the restructuring practice not only locally, but nationally. Ms.McDow has authored a number of publications on bankruptcy and commercial law topics, including critical-vendor motions, perfection of security interests in intellectual property and the enforcement of state court judgments in bankruptcy. In addition, she has guest-lectured at the University of CaliforniaIrvine School of Law on insolvency and restructuring matters. Most recently, she was honored as one of ABI’s 2019 “40 under 40” emerging leaders in insolvency. Ms. McDow received her B.A. in 2003 from the University of Washington and her J.D. in 2006 from Loyola Law School.