Val Loumber

Val Loumber brings over 25 years of distinct legal experience in difficult litigation cases involving creditors’ rights, insolvency, commercial law, bankruptcy, and business law.

Mr. Loumber litigates difficult cases in the realms of business, bankruptcy, and intentional torts, covering both federal and state law. His practice has covered numerous subjects, such as financial fraud, fraudulent conveyances, corporate governance disputes, fiduciary duty breaches, principal and shareholder liability, plan confirmations, debtor eligibility, disgorgement issues, involuntary bankruptcies, ABC proceedings, complex asset investigations, non-dischargeability actions, and denials of discharge. He represents business entities, banks, law firms, and individuals. He also regularly advises fellow attorneys on complex litigation cases.

In addition to private practice, for nearly 16 years Mr. Loumber worked as staff attorney at the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of California, Sacramento Division, with Judges Jane D. McKeag (ret.), Michael S. McManus (ret.), and Fredrick Clement. While at the court, he worked on numerous disputes brought before the court, preparing over 25,000 written dispositions, including thousands of dispositions in complex commercial, business and bankruptcy disputes, encompassing both federal and state law. He also worked as staff attorney with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, B.A.P., from 2005 until 2008, preparing bench memoranda and dispositive decisions for appeals to that court.

For 10 years, Mr. Loumber taught federal practice and procedure to dozens of law students externing at the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of California, while he served with that court. He has also taught various legal subjects as a professor of law at several law schools in Europe, including the Center for American Studies in Poznan, Poland, National Uzzhorod University School of Law in Uzzhorod, Ukraine, and the Pericles Law Center in Moscow, Russia. From 2022 until 2025, Mr. Loumber founded, organized and taught many of the courses in a year-long LL.M. program in International Business Law, designed to help Ukrainian legal professionals during the war. Students graduated in December 2024.

From August 2002 until September 2005, Mr. Loumber worked as an attorney at Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean, LLP (now Fennemore). There, he gained substantial experience representing bankruptcy trustees and Chapter 11 debtors. He conducted litigation and trial work in cases relating to the dot-com bust, involving creditor, shareholder and principal liability. He also conducted various estate administration litigation, such as sales, financings, claim objections, and compensation motions.

Mr. Loumber also serves as a resolution advocate on the Bankruptcy Dispute Resolution Program panel for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of California. The judges of the Eastern District of California have adopted the Bankruptcy Dispute Resolution Program (BDRP), allowing participants to take advantage of and utilize a wide variety of alternative dispute resolution methods, including but not limited to, mediation, negotiation, early neutral evaluation, and settlement facilitation.

On regular basis, Mr. Loumber provides pro bono services to individuals and business entities that are experiencing financial difficulties.