Ashley A. Federer
Associate
Duane Morris LLP
30 South 17th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103-4196
USA
Phone: +1 215 979 1184
Fax: +1 215 827 5567
Email: AFederer@duanemorris.com

Ashley A. Federer is an associate in the Trial Practice Group and concentrates her practice on financial services and creditors’ rights. Ms. Federer regularly represents commercial lending and leasing clients in commercial loan workouts, loan restructurings, forbearance and enforcement actions.

Ms. Federer represents secured and unsecured creditors in a variety of bankruptcy and collection matters, including mortgage foreclosures, confession of judgment proceedings, fraudulent transfer actions and breach of contract actions. She has extensive experience liquidating and recovering collateral assets.

Ms. Federer routinely represents financial institutions and various other non-bank lenders in all aspects of commercial lending, including real estate acquisition, development and construction financing, asset-based financing, second-lien financing and general secured financing. In addition, she has experience representing banks in consumer lending litigation matters.

Ms. Federer is a 2005 graduate of the University of Notre Dame Law School and a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Scranton.

Areas of Practice

• Loan Restructuring and Commercial Loan Workout
• Creditors' Rights
• Commercial Finance
• Business Reorganization and Bankruptcy
• Consumer Lending Litigation

Representative Matters

• Represented Evergreen Elder Care and defeated a motion for summary judgment filed by a secured creditor who sought judgment in the approximate amount of $3.3 million and an order authorizing foreclosure of Evergreen's premises. The court also granted an order removing a receiver the court previously appointed for Evergreen's business.

Professional Activities

• Turnaround Management Association
• Notre Dame Club of Philadelphia

Admissions

• Pennsylvania

Education

• University of Notre Dame Law School, J.D., 2005
• University of Scranton, B.A., magna cum laude, 2002

Experience

• Duane Morris LLP
  - Associate, 2011-present
• Deeb Petrakis Blum & Murphy, P.C.
  - Associate, 2009-2011
• WolfBlock LLP
  - Associate, 2007-2009
• Grenen & Birsic, P.C.
  - Associate, 2005-2007

Civic and Charitable Activities

• Volunteer, The Moyer Foundation

Honors and Awards

• Recognized by The Legal Intelligencer as one of the "Top Ten Lateral Hires in Pennsylvania in 2011"

Selected Publications

• Co-Author, "Fraud in Asset-Based Lending: Asset Recovery Tips for Lenders," The Secured Lender, April 2011; published as a two-part series