Riley C. Walter, Esq.

Riley C. Walter is an attorney with Wanger Jones Helsley PC in Fresno, Calif., and has focused on restructuring, insolvency and reorganization matters since 1980. He specializes in chapter 11 reorganization cases representing debtors and chapter 9 cases involving governmental entities. Mr. Walter has handled all types of cases, including but not limited to large farms, dairies, wineries, canneries, developers, retail businesses, gold mines, hospitals and hospital districts. He also has authored numerous articles on insolvency and bankruptcy and is a frequent speaker to business, legal, agricultural and financial groups, including presentations at the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, Farmers andRanchers Tax Conference, Central California Bankruptcy Institute, Eastern District Judicial Conference and the Agricultural Lending Institute. Mr. Walter is Board Certified in Business Bankruptcy Lawby the American Board of Certification and is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, ClassXIII. He has been recognized as a “Top 100” Super Lawyer for Northern California seven times since2011 and annually as a Northern California Super Lawyer beginning in 2004. He has been AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell since 1995. Mr. Walter was a lawyer representative to the Ninth Circuit JudicialConference and is past chair of the Eastern District Judicial Conference Committee. He also is a former co-chair of the Business Law Section of the Fresno County Bar Association, a past president of the Central California Bankruptcy Association, past president of the San Joaquin Valley Chapter of the FederalBar Association, past director of the California Bankruptcy Forum and California Receiver’s Forum,past chair of the Agricultural Law Section of the Fresno County Bar Association, and past co-chair of theAgribusiness Committee of the Business Law Section of the California State Bar. Previously, he was an associate professor of agricultural business management at Cal Poly Pomona and a lecturer at Cal PolySan Luis Obispo, and he has taught agricultural law at San Joaquin College of Law and entrepreneurship at Fresno State. Mr. Walter is admitted to practice before all California courts, the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Eastern Central and Southern Districts of California, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He received his B.A. in 1973 and his M.A. in 1974 from California Polytechnic State University, San LuisObispo, and his J.D. in 1980 from Western State College of Law, Fullerton.