Paula S. Beran

Paula S. Beran is a member of Tavenner & Beran, PLC in Richmond, Va., and has focused on bankruptcy and insolvency matters throughout her career. Her experience includes representing chapter 11 debtors, official unsecured creditors’ committees, stalking-horse purchasers, and chapter 7 and liquidation trustees. She also has represented entities in out-of-court reorganizations and liquidations, and served as a corporate receiver in a matter pending in a Virginia circuit court. Prior to entering private practice, Ms. Beran clerked for Hon. Douglas O. Tice Jr. in the U.S. BankruptcyCourt for the Eastern District of Virginia and for the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Office of Staff Counsel from 1992-94. She is a regular speaker at continuing legal education seminars for local and state bar associations and business organizations. In addition, she has served as a faculty member for ABI’s Bankruptcy Litigation Skills Program and has lectured on bankruptcy at the University of Richmond Law School. An AV-Rated attorney by Martindale-Hubbell, Ms. Beran was selected as one of the Top 25 Female Attorneys by Virginia Super Lawyers and has been recognized in the bankruptcy/creditors’ rights field in numerous editions of The Best Lawyers in America, Virginia Super Lawyers and Virginia Business magazine. She is a member of ABI and the Virginia BarAssociation, and she is a past chair of the The Bar Association for in the City of Richmond’s Bankruptcy Section, past member of the Virginia State Bar’s Bar Council and past chair of its MandatoryLegal Education Board. Ms. Beran received her B.A. cum laude from Randolph-Macon College in1988, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa, and her M.B.A. andJ.D. cum laude from Wake Forest University in 1992, where she was articles editor of the WakeForest Law Review.