Sharon Z. Weiss

Sharon Z. Weiss is a partner with Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP in Santa Monica and has experience in a wide area of insolvency matters from various perspectives, including the representation of creditors, individual and corporate debtors, trustees, franchisors and creditors’ committees. She has served as lead trial counsel in bankruptcy and commercial litigation, including alternative dispute resolution, and has experience in handling fraud and Ponzi scheme litigation and bankruptcy appeals, which have resulted in published Ninth Circuit opinions. Ms. Weiss’s clients include parties engaged in the banking, real estate, consumer electronics, health care, restaurant, garment, entertainment and retail sales industries.She has served as lead counsel in out-of-court workouts and in bankruptcy courts in cases involving such varied issues as disputed asset sales, financing, secured creditor rights, the avoiding powers, executory contracts, pension plans, claims priority, plan confirmation, surcharges, and the court’s inherent powers. Ms. Weiss is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for theNinth Circuit, and the U.S. District Courts for the District of Colorado and Central, Eastern, Northern and Southern Districts of California. She received her B.A. in 1990 from the University of California,Irvine and her J.D. in 1993 from Southwestern University.