Margaret M. Newell

Margaret M. Newell is a bankruptcy and banking attorney, currently working as a Counsel in the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Receivership Policy Unit.  Previously, she spent approximately 25 years working at the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Commercial Litigation Branch, Corporate/Financial Litigation Section in Washington, D.C., as a Trial Attorney, Senior Trial Counsel, Assistant Director and Senior Level Trial Attorney.  At the Department of Justice, she represented federal government agencies in complex chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of large companies, generally those operating in highly regulated industries.  Before her time with DOJ, Ms. Newell represented debtors, lenders, creditors’ committees and individual creditors in chapter 7 and 11 corporate bankruptcy cases as an associate with Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld, LLP in Washington, D.C., and Richards, Layton and Finger, P.A., in Wilmington, Del. She received her B.A. with honors in English at the University of Notre Dame in 1992 and her J.D. cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center in 1996.