Douglas M. Foley

Bio

Douglas M. Foley is a partner with McGuireWoods LLP in Washington, D.C., where he focuses his practice on business bankruptcy, creditors’ rights and commercial litigation, and he has substantial experience in a variety of business chapter 11 proceedings, having been involved in many of the largest chapter 11 cases filed in the Eastern District of Virginia. Mr. Foley is admitted to practice before all courts in Washington, D.C., Virginia, New York and North Carolina. He is Board Certified in Business Bankruptcy Law by the American Board of Certification and was inducted into the American College of Bankruptcy in 2011. Mr. Foley served as chair of the Virginia State Bar’s Bankruptcy Section Board of Governors from 2012-13, and he is a past president of the Tidewater Bankruptcy Bar Association and a past member of the Virginia Bar Association Bankruptcy Law Section Council. In addition, he was named one of Virginia’s “Legal Elite” in the field of bankruptcy and creditors’ rights by Virginia Business magazine from 2003-13 and a Virginia “Super Lawyer” by Law & Politics from 2006-13. He was also named one of The Best Lawyers in America from 2005-19 and as “Norfolk’s Best Bankruptcy and Creditors Rights Lawyer of the Year” in 2011 and “Norfolk’s Best Litigation – Bankruptcy Lawyer of the Year in 2014.” Mr. Foley received his B.A. cum laude from Mary Washington College in 1988 and his J.D. with distinction in 1992 from George Mason University School of Law, where he was a member and production editor of the George Mason Law Review.