Laura S. Bouyea

Laura S. Bouyea, CPA is a partner with Venable LLP and is co-leader of its Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights Group in Baltimore. She represents debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, creditors’ committees, bankruptcy trustees, liquidating agents, and other parties-in-interest in bankruptcy cases and related matters, including pre-bankruptcy counseling and planning, cash-collateral use, debtor-in-possession financing, automatic stay litigation, asset sales, plan litigation, fraudulent conveyance litigation, claim disputes, and claim administration. She also represents lenders, including special servicers of commercial mortgage-backed securities, in all aspects of the creditor/distressed debtor relationship, including loan modifications, foreclosure sales, receivership actions and sales, guaranty claims and lender-liability actions. Ms. Bouyea has represented clients in a variety of sectors and industries, including real estate, retail, government, health care and manufacturing. She also has experience in distressed real estate and bankruptcy matters and serves as the chairperson of the Workouts, Foreclosure and Bankruptcy Committee of the American Bar Association’s Real Property Trust and Estates Section. Ms. Bouyea has represented lenders secured by real estate in bankruptcies of all sizes and levels of complexity, has served as lead counsel in hundreds of receiverships and foreclosures across the country of commercial properties of all types, obtained judgments on guaranties of commercial real estate loans, and defended lenders secured by real estate in lender-liability actions. Prior to law school, she earned her certified public accountant license and worked as an auditor for Arthur Andersen. Ms. Bouyea received her B.S./B.A. in accounting cum laude from the University of Richmond in 1999, and her J.D. with honors in 2003 from the University of Maryland School of Law.