Tobey Daluz

Practice Areas

Tobey M. Daluz is a litigation partner who focuses her practice on corporate restructuring, workouts, and general bankruptcy litigation. Tobey represents debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, insurers, indenture trustees, and official committees in chapter 9 and 11 bankruptcy cases. She also represents buyers of assets in the context of sales under section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code.

Tobey is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute and she is the founding Chair (now member) of the Delaware Network of the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC). She is a member of the Bankruptcy Law Section and Multicultural Judges and Lawyers Section of the Delaware State Bar Association.

Tobey was appointed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to serve a three-year term on its Lawyers Advisory Committee, which comments on proposed rules of the Circuit and serves as a liaison between the court and legal community. Over the past two decades, she has served on the Third Circuit's Merit Selection Panel and participated in the review and recommendation of candidates for five Eastern District of Pennsylvania bankruptcy judge positions. More recently, she was appointed to chair the Third Circuit's Merit Selection Panel, which led to the appointment of two bankruptcy judges for the District of Delaware.

Career

Admissions:

Delaware

Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Supreme Court

Professional Memberships

Appointee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to serve a three-year term on its Lawyers Advisory Committee, which comments on proposed rules of the Circuit and serves as a liaison between the court and legal community

Appointed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to serve on its Merit Selection Panel and participated in the review and recommendation of seven bankruptcy judge candidates

American College of Bankruptcy

Fellow

American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI)

Member, Unsecured Creditors Newsletter Committee; Member, Advisory Board of ABI's Mid-Atlantic Bankruptcy Workshop

Delaware State Bar Association

Member, Bankruptcy Law Section; Member, Multicultural Judges and Lawyers Section

Delaware Network of the International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC), Founding Chair and member

James Brister Society of The University of Pennsylvania, an alumni organization that promotes diversity at Penn

Ballard Spahr's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council and leader of Diverse Partner Group

Member, Board of Directors of Boys and Girls Clubs of Philadelphia, 2005-2020; Vice Chair, 2010-2012