Sharon L. Levine

Sharon L. Levine is a partner in Saul Ewing LLP's Newark, N.J., office and has been at the forefront of some of the largest complex bankruptcy cases in recent years. Her practice encompasses restructur- ing, debtor/creditor law restructuring and bankruptcy litigation, and she has represented purchasers, debtors and creditors (committees and individuals). Ms. Levine has tried contested and litigated mat- ters in venues including federal bankruptcy courts in New York, Delaware, California, Hawaii, Texas, Michigan, Virginia and New Jersey. She is a frequent lecturer on various bankruptcy topics and served as co-chair of ABI's Unsecured Trade Creditors Committee and as a member of the board of trustees and the Women's Committee of the Turnaround Management Association. She also served as co-chair of the Labor and Benefits Issues Advisory Committee to ABI's Commission to Study the Reform of the Bankruptcy Code. Ms. Levine sits on the advisory board of ABI's VALCON conference and is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy. She also received the New York Institute of Credit's Executive of the Year Award in 2015 and the International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC-NJ) Woman of the Year award in 2014, and she has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America for Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization annually since 2012, named one of "America's Leading Lawyers in Bankruptcy Law" by Chambers USA since 2008, and featured in New Jersey Super Lawyers since 2005. Ms. Levine received her B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College and her J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where she was an associate editor of the Case Western Reserve University Law Review.