Adrienne Walker

Practice Areas

Adrienne Walker is a highly regarded advocate with over 25 years of experience fiercely defending her clients in both the boardroom and the courtroom. Focusing her practice on business restructuring, commercial finance, workouts, and bankruptcy litigation, Adrienne deploys a strategic and efficient approach to maximize clients’ interests and recoveries in the face of business uncertainty and financial distress.

Adrienne represents a diverse range of clients — particularly in the health care, manufacturing, and education sectors, including private capital investors, bond and noteholders, bond trustees and agents, commercial lenders, debtors, strategic trade creditors, official and ad-hoc committees, and contract counterparties in bankruptcy, receiverships, assignments for the benefit of creditors and out of court workouts and restructurings.

In her commercial lending practice, Adrienne advises borrowers on private capital and secured financing transactions, leveraging her talent for structuring complex debt positions that often involve distressed debt or restructuring scenarios. Clients value Adrienne’s business sensibilities across a variety of industries, with her experience extending to senior living, equipment finance, charter schools, higher education, project development, and retail.

In addition to her restructuring practice, Adrienne serves as general counsel to the Unitarian Universalist Association, a board member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, and a director of the New England Chapter of the International Women’s Restructuring Confederation (IWRC). She is also a frequent speaker and writer on restructuring and commercial lending topics.

Prior to joining Foley, Adrienne was a partner in the Boston office of an international law firm.

Professional Memberships

Board of Directors, American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) (2020-Present)

Advisory Board, ABI Northeast Conference (2017-2023)

Board Member, IWIRC New England (2022 – present)

Conference Co-Chair, ABI Northeast Conference (2018-2019)

Member, BBA Bankruptcy Section Steering Committee (2004-2024)

BBA Bankruptcy Section Strategic Planning Committee (2018-2024)

Section Co-Chair, BBA Bankruptcy Section (2008-2010)

Member, International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC)

Member, Boston Bar Association (BBA)

Member, Turnaround Management Association

Member, Massachusetts Bar Association

Adjunct professor, Suffolk University Law School (2017-2022)

Adjunct professor, New England School of Law (2012-2016)

Personal

• Suffolk University Law School (J.D., magna cum laude, 1998)

• Simmons College (B.A., with honors, 1995)