Ilana Volkov

Partner

Ilana has over 25 years of experience representing debtors, unsecured creditors’ committees, pre-petition and DIP lenders, purchasers of assets, commercial landlords, contract parties, creditors, officers and directors, and other parties-in-interest in all aspects of complex business reorganizations, distressed M&A transactions, and related bankruptcy litigation. Ilana also has extensive experience in cross-border insolvency proceedings. In 2004, she founded the New Jersey Network of the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC), and served on its Board of Directors as well as on the International Board for many years. Ilana is the recipient of the 2016 IWIRC-NJ Network Woman of the Year Award. Born in Riga, Latvia, Ilana is fluent in Russian.

Experience

1993-2019: Cole Schotz P.C., New York and New Jersey.
1991-1993: Sills Cummis & Gross P.C., New Jersey.
January-May 1990: Intern for the Honorable Calvin K. Ashland, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Central District of California and Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Bankruptcy Appellate Panel.

Education

University of California at Los Angeles School of Law: J.D., 1991
Columbia College, Columbia University: B.A., 1988

Admissions & Associations

United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
Member in Good Standing of the Bars of the States of New York and New Jersey
American Bankruptcy Institute
International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation
New York City Bar Association, Committee on Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization