Victoria A. Guilfoyle
Victoria A. Guilfoyle is a partner with Blank Rome LLP in Wilmington, Del., where she concentrates her practice on corporate bankruptcy and business reorganization matters and related litigation. She represents chapter 11 debtors, creditors’ committees, lenders, private-equity funds and other secured creditors, chapter 11 and chapter 7 trustees, asset-purchasers, equipment lessors, utility providers, soft-ware licensors, landlords, liquidation and litigation trusts, and e-commerce service providers. She also prosecutes and defends against avoidance and fraudulent-transfer actions brought in large chapter 11cases. In addition to her bankruptcy practice, Ms. Guilfoyle focuses her practice in corporate and commercial litigation matters. She is serving as the post-confirmation trustee of the Solyndra Residual Trustand Solyndra Settlement Trust in connection with the chapter 11 bankruptcy of Solyndra LLC, a solar energy start-up company that declared bankruptcy after receiving $535 million in loans guaranteed by the U.S. Department of Energy. Ms. Guilfoyle previously was an adjunct professor at Delaware Technical and Community College. She was listed from 2014-21 as a Super Lawyers “Delaware Rising Star” inBusiness Bankruptcy, and she received “40 Under 40” recognition by ABI in 2020 and the PhiladelphiaBusiness Journal in 2018. Ms. Guilfoyle is a member of ABI and the American, Delaware and Pennsylvania Bar Associations, the Delaware Bankruptcy American Inn of Court, and the Philadelphia/Wilmington Chapter of the Turnaround Management Association. She serves as a volunteer tax-preparer atlow-income taxpayer clinics and has served as court-appointed counsel for several low-income parents in custody disputes in the Family Court of the State of Delaware. In addition, she serves as a member ofBlank Rome’s Pro Bono and Diversity & Inclusion Committees and is a past member of the firm’s Associates Committee. Ms. Guilfoyle received her B.A. magna cum laude with honors from WashingtonCollege and her J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law at Camden, where she served as an articles editor for the Rutgers Law Journal.