Brya M. Keilson, Esq.

Brya M. Keilson is a partner with Morris James LLP in Wilmington, Del., where she counsels clients on commercial bankruptcy, restructuring and insolvency matters. She represents chapter 11 debtors, insurers in all facets of bankruptcy-related issues, creditors’ committees, liquidating trustees, trade creditors and financial institutions, purchasers of assets, and both plaintiffs and defendants in numerous avoidance actions, including preference and fraudulent-transfer actions. Outside of bankruptcy, Ms. Keilson rep-resents receivers and assignees in assignments for the benefit of creditors, and she represents corporate clients in asset-purchase deals and banks in front-end lending and workouts. She also has experience in commercial litigation, real estate matters, loan transactions and corporate acquisitions. Prior to join-ing Morris James, Ms. Keilson worked in private practice at two law firms for the first 13 years of her practice. She then worked as a trial attorney for the Office of the U.S. Trustee, where she represented the U.S. Trustee for Region 3 in chapter 11 and 7 cases pending in Delaware. Ms. Keilson speaks on a broad range of topics concerning commercial bankruptcy law, including serving as a recurring panelist at the Pennsylvania Bankruptcy Institute. She received her B.A. in philosophy in 1999 from Haverford College and her J.D. in 2004 from Villanova University School of Law, where she was a staff writer and managing editor of the Villanova Law Review and a Dean’s Merit Scholar.