James A. Newton

Associate

New York, (212) 336-4116

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Education

University of Florida (BSBA, 2005)
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Temple University (M.B.A., 2009)
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Temple University Beasley School of Law (J.D., 2009)
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St. John's University School of Law (LL.M., 2010)

Practices

Business Restructuring + Insolvency

Bar Admissions

Florida
New York

James Newton is an associate in the Business Restructuring & Insolvency Group in the New York office of Morrison & Foerster LLP.

Prior to joining Morrison & Foerster, Mr. Newton clerked in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Arizona, where he worked primarily with the Honorable Charles G. Case II. Mr. Newton also worked for Judges Allan L. Gropper and Burton R. Lifland in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, as well as Judge Kevin J. Carey in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

Mr. Newton earned an LL.M. in Bankruptcy Law at St. John’s University, finishing first in his class. He earned his J.D. and M.B.A. at Temple University and a B.S.B.A. in finance from the University of Florida.

Residential Capital, LLC

(Bankr. S.D.N.Y.) Counsel to Residential Capital, one of the largest residential real estate finance companies with assets and liabilities each in excess of $15 billion, whose business is comprised primarily of loan servicing and origination, and its subsidiary companies, in their pending chapter 11 cases. Residential Capital was the largest bankruptcy filing of 2012 and the case represents the first time ever that a mortgage servicer was able to successfully continue servicing and originating mortgages in bankruptcy and be sold as a going concern.

PMI Group, Inc.

(Bankr. D. Del.) Representation of the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of mortgage insurer PMI Group, Inc. in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

MF Global Holdings Ltd.

(Bankr. S.D.N.Y.) Counsel to Louis J. Freeh, former Federal Judge and former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as Chapter 11 Trustee for MF Global in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding. With $41 billion in assets at the time of filing, MF Global was the largest bankruptcy filing of 2011 and the eighth-largest in U.S. history. This case involves a wind-down of an extremely complex global operation and the realization of value from various entities in the MF Global Group, many of which are in their own administration or liquidation proceedings domestically and internationally.