Catherine Keller Hopkin

Catherine K. Hopkin is an attorney with YVS Law LLC in Annapolis, Md., where she represents clients in commercial and individual chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, as well as commercial litigation. Her representations in insolvency cases have resulted in successful plan confirmations, confessed judgment actions, commercial foreclosures, workouts, collection actions, guarantor litigation, tax sale foreclosures, and a wide variety of other creditors’ rights actions. Ms. Hopkin filed and confirmed the first Small Business Reorganization Act case in Maryland in 2020. She is a past-president (2021-22) and a prior member of the board of directors of the Bankruptcy Bar Association of Maryland, for which she has also served on various committees, including as a member of the Complex Chapter 11 Committee, and chair of the Small Business Reorganization Act committee. Ms. Hopkin is past chair of the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation – Greater Maryland Network (IWIRC) (2022-23), where she also serves on the board of directors, and she previously served as co-chair of Communications and a co-editor of its newsletter. Between 2017 and 2020, she served on the board of directors of the Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland. Each year since 2016, Chambers USA has recognized Ms. Hopkin as a leader in the Maryland bankruptcy/restructuring field. Additionally, each year since 2013, Maryland Super Lawyers has named her to its list for her bankruptcy practice. In addition to her professional activities, Ms. Hopkin provides pro bono services through various legal outreach programs and coaches select/travel youth soccer. She also serves as a mentor through a mentorship program between IWIRC and the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. Ms. Hopkin received her B.A. in journalism in 2003 from the University of Maryland and her J.D. cum laude in 2006 from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, where she served as an associate editor of the Journal of Health Care, Law, & Policy.