Ellen A. Friedman
Ellen
A. Friedman is a partner with Friedman Dumas & Springwater
LLP. Ms. Friedman's primary areas of practice are Corporate
Finance and Creditors' Remedies.
Bankruptcy
. Ms. Friedman has
represented numerous secured and unsecured creditors, including
large high tech companies. She has served on many creditors'
committees, including committees in the Circuit City, DaisyTek,
Inacom, Bridgeport Holdings, and Trigem bankruptcies.
She has participated in financial restructurings ranging from
small dot.coms to large well-established hardware manufacturers
and has provided legal advice in connection with the wind
down of many companies.
Business
Transactions and Commercial Lending . Ms.
Friedman has handled a wide range of commercial transactions,
including venture capital finance, sales of private label
credit card portfolios, inventory finance transactions, equipment
lease transactions and sales of intellectual property.
Publications
and Speaking Engagements . A
recognized expert on California 's Revised Article 9, Ms.
Friedman is the author of Secured Transactions in California
Commercial Practice (CEB 2001) and its updates since
2001. She is also the author of numerous articles on
security interests, including “Security Interests in Trade
Secrets,” Trade Secrets (CEB 1998) and Taking
Security Interests in Personal Property (CEB 1997).
She is a lecturer and author for Executive Enterprises, the
Practicing Law Institute, Professional Education Systems,
Inc., the American Bar Association, Lorman Education Services,
the Business Law Section of the California State Bar, and
the Bar Association of San Francisco.
State
Bar and other Activities . She
is currently serving on the Executive Committee of the Business
Law Section of the State Bar of California. Ms. Friedman was
the Co-Chair of the State Bar of California Insolvency Committee
for the 2008-2009 year. She has served on the State Bar of
California Uniform Commercial Code Committee and helped draft
the Commentary on Restatement of Suretyship. She
is on the Board of the Legal Aid Society of San Francisco.
Education
. Ms. Friedman received
her A.B. magna cum laude in 1982 from Princeton University
and her J.D. in 1985 from Vanderbilt University School of
Law where she was elected to Order of the Coif. She
is a member of the State Bar of California and the State Bar
of New York.
