Chrissey L. Barba

Chrissey L. Barba is a partner at Ballard Spahr in Philadelphia who focuses on commercial lending with an emphasis on loan workouts. She represents lenders and creditors through loan documentation, debt restructuring, enforcement, and related litigation. Her finance work ranges from straightforward real estate loans to complex credit facilities, including distressed credits, borrowing base facilities, participation loans, mezzanine loans, intercreditor agreements, forbearance arrangements, note sales, and matters involving restricted or specialized collateral.

Barba earned a J.D. with high honors from Rutgers, The State University School of New Jersey School of Law-Camden, where she served as Managing Research Editor of the Rutgers Journal of Law & Public Policy. She received a B.A., summa cum laude, from Rowan University. Her academic background supports a practice that combines transactional finance, commercial litigation, creditors’ rights, and bankruptcy, often requiring careful interpretation of contracts, collateral rights, priority issues, and restructuring options.

Barba represents financial institutions and other creditors in federal and state litigation involving lender liability claims, commercial foreclosures, replevin, Uniform Commercial Code proceedings, receiverships, confessed judgments, and enforcement against real and personal property. She also handles bankruptcy matters for debtors, creditors, and trustees in Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 proceedings. Her transactional matters include restructurings and negotiated asset dispositions designed to preserve collateral value and manage distressed lending relationships.

Chrissey L. Barba is admitted in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and before federal and bankruptcy courts in those jurisdictions. Her practice bridges business transactions and litigation, giving clients continuity from loan documentation through workout, restructuring, enforcement, or bankruptcy. She helps lenders and creditors evaluate risk, preserve liens, negotiate practical solutions, and pursue remedies when commercial loans become distressed or disputes arise over repayment, collateral, or priority rights.

Law Office Affiliations

• Partner, Ballard Spahr LLP
• Member, New Jersey State Bar Association
• Member, Pennsylvania Bar Association
• Member, Philadelphia Bar Association
• Member, National Association of Women Lawyers
• Member, Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, Elden S. Magaw Alumni Chapter
• Member, American Bankruptcy Institute
• Member, Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce – Young Professionals Network

Licensed State

• New Jersey
• Pennsylvania

Education

• Rutgers, The State University School of New Jersey School of Law-Camden
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Rowan University
  Bachelor of Arts (BA) (Summa Cum Laude)

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