Vienna Flores Anaya
Practice Areas
Experience
- Bankruptcy Trustee Representation
- Committee Representation
- Debtor Representation
- Distressed Asset Buyers & Sellers Representation
- Energy Workouts & Reorganizations
- Healthcare Workouts & Reorganizations
- Landlord & Contract Counter Parties Representation
- Real Estate Workouts & Reorganizations
- Secured Creditor Representation
- Unsecured Creditor Representation
Biography
Vienna is an attorney in the bankruptcy, restructuring, and recovery practice group of Jackson Walker’s Dallas office. Vienna serves as an advisor to debtors, creditors’ committees, bankruptcy trustees, financial institutions, and other unsecured creditors in all aspects of bankruptcy cases. She has served as counsel to clients throughout a variety of industries, including healthcare, retail, hospitality, and oil and gas.
Vienna’s experience includes advising clients in corporate reorganizations, out-of-court restructurings, and in general bankruptcy litigation matters. Vienna has significant experience in post-confirmation administration, including representing liquidating trustees and reorganized debtors through the claims administration process and complex litigation related thereto. She routinely advises and counsels both debtor and non-debtor contract counterparties and landlords with respect to bankruptcy issues, including assumption and assignment of leases and contracts and claims related to lease rejection damages. Vienna has successfully prosecuted and defended numerous fraudulent transfer and preference actions.
Vienna earned her Juris Doctorate from Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law, where she held office as the president of both the Student Bar Association and the Hispanic Law Student Association. She was also a reporter for The Law and Business Review of the Americas. She holds a Bachelors of Business Administration in Accounting from Texas A&M University and is fluent in Spanish.
Additional Languages
Spanish
Education
B.B.A., Texas A&M University
J.D., cum laude, SMU Dedman School of Law
Bar Admissions
Texas
- Texas Rising Star, Super Lawyers by Thomson Reuters, 2021-2024
- “Best Lawyers Under 40,” D Magazine, 2023-2024
- “Best Lawyers in Dallas,” D Magazine, 2021, 2024
- “Texas Bankruptcy Court – Applying Oklahoma Law – Concludes That Gathering Agreements Created Covenants Running With the Land and Cannot be Rejected by the Alta Mesa Resources Debtors,” Jackson Walker Insights (December 2019)
- “Major Decision in Energy-Related Bankruptcies: Colorado Court in Monarch Midstream Case Departs from Sabine Oil and Finds Gathering Agreement Established a Covenant Running with the Land,” Jackson Walker Insights (October 2019)
- “Overdraft Policies Require More Than Compliance with Regulation E,” Journal of Consumer and Commercial Law 21, no.2 (Winter 2018)
- The Hon. John C. Ford American Inn of Court, Associate
- Dallas Association of Young Lawyers
- Dallas Bar Association, Bankruptcy Law Section
April 19, 2024
Attorney News
Jackson Walker Congratulates 23 Attorneys Named Among 2024 “Best Lawyers in Dallas” List
Jackson Walker congratulates the 23 attorneys recognized among D Magazine’s list of the “Best Lawyers in Dallas” for 2024. For recognition in the list, Dallas attorneys must be nominated by their peers on the basis that they offer unmatched counsel in one of 40 categories.
April 15, 2024
Newsletters
JW Diversity & Inclusion Newsletter – April 2024
View Jackson Walker’s April 2024 Diversity & Inclusion Newsletter, Perspectives.
April 11, 2024
Spotlight
Jackson Walker Receives Two Awards at 18th Annual Turnaround Awards Gala
Jackson Walker congratulates our Bankruptcy, Restructuring, & Recovery team for their recognition as award recipients at the 18th Annual Turnaround Awards Gala during the 2024 Distressed Investing Summit. The award ceremony took place on Tuesday, March 19, 2023, at The Ben Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida.
March 21, 2024
Attorney News
Jackson Walker Congratulates 2024 Texas Rising Stars
Each year, Super Lawyers recognizes only 5% of Texas attorneys who either are 40 years of age or younger or have been in practice for 10 years or less as “Rising Stars.”
January 11, 2024
Attorney News
Super Lawyers Names 31 Jackson Walker Attorneys in Texas Top Women 2024 Magazine
Jackson Walker congratulates the 31 attorneys who were included in the Texas Top Women 2024 Magazine published by Thomson Reuters’ Super Lawyers. The annual Texas Top Texas Women edition includes the highest-rated women attorneys across the “Texas Rising Stars” and “Texas Super Lawyers” lists in a given practice area.
January 8, 2024
Attorney News
D Magazine Lists Vienna Anaya and David Schlottman Among “Best Lawyers Under 40” for 2024
Attorneys on the “Best Lawyers Under 40” list are nominated by peers who have witnessed their work firsthand and are selected for recognition by a panel of attorneys of varying ages and levels of experience.
August 4, 2023
Mentions
The American Lawyer: Jackson Walker is Nation’s Top Local Counsel in Large Bankruptcies, as Bankruptcy and Restructuring Filings Rebound
The American Lawyer cited new research which named Jackson Walker’s Bankruptcy, Restructuring, & Recovery group as the top local debtor’s counsel in the nation so far this year.
April 24, 2023
Newsletters
JW Diversity & Inclusion Newsletter – April 2023
View Jackson Walker’s April 2023 Diversity & Inclusion Newsletter, Perspectives.
March 23, 2023
Attorney News
Jackson Walker Congratulates Its 2023 Texas Rising Stars
Jackson Walker is pleased to announce the selection of 63 attorneys to Thomson Reuters’ 2023 “Super Lawyers – Rising Stars” list, which recognizes only 5% of Texas attorneys who either are 40 years of age or younger or have been in practice for 10 years or less.
January 30, 2023
Attorney News
D Magazine Lists Vienna Anaya, David Schlottman, and Ashley Withers Among “Best Lawyers Under 40”
Vienna Flores Anaya, David Schlottman, and Ashley Withers were included in D Magazine’s 2023 “Best Lawyers Under 40” list recognizing outstanding young attorneys in the North Texas area.
Recognition & Accolades
- Texas Rising Star, Super Lawyers by Thomson Reuters, 2021-2024
- “Best Lawyers Under 40,” D Magazine, 2023-2024
- “Best Lawyers in Dallas,” D Magazine, 2021, 2024
Publications & Speeches
- “Texas Bankruptcy Court – Applying Oklahoma Law – Concludes That Gathering Agreements Created Covenants Running With the Land and Cannot be Rejected by the Alta Mesa Resources Debtors,” Jackson Walker Insights (December 2019)
- “Major Decision in Energy-Related Bankruptcies: Colorado Court in Monarch Midstream Case Departs from Sabine Oil and Finds Gathering Agreement Established a Covenant Running with the Land,” Jackson Walker Insights (October 2019)
- “Overdraft Policies Require More Than Compliance with Regulation E,” Journal of Consumer and Commercial Law 21, no.2 (Winter 2018)
Community Involvement
- The Hon. John C. Ford American Inn of Court, Associate
- Dallas Association of Young Lawyers
- Dallas Bar Association, Bankruptcy Law Section
Practice Areas
Experience
- Bankruptcy Trustee Representation
- Committee Representation
- Debtor Representation
- Distressed Asset Buyers & Sellers Representation
- Energy Workouts & Reorganizations
- Healthcare Workouts & Reorganizations
- Landlord & Contract Counter Parties Representation
- Real Estate Workouts & Reorganizations
- Secured Creditor Representation
- Unsecured Creditor Representation