Valerie Bantner Peo represents stakeholders in all aspects of restructuring, insolvency and commercial litigation. She regularly represents financial institutions, including agribusiness lenders and alternative lenders, software licensors, commercial landlords and tenants, equipment lessors, buyers of distressed assets and fiduciaries such as receivers and assignees.
Ms. Bantner Peo is the Administrative Co-Chair of Buchalter’s Insolvency & Financial Law Group and a past chair of the Women@Buchalter committee. Since 2022, she has served as a Lawyer Representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Council for the Northern District of California, and served as co-chair of the Lawyer Representative Committee in 2023-24.
Ms. Bantner Peo serves on the Board of Directors of the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (“IWIRC”). In 2023, Ms. Bantner Peo received the IWIRC Fetner Award, presented to a member whose contributions to IWIRC have helped to fuel growth and expansion of IWIRC’s mission globally.