Bret A. Maidman

Bret is Executive Vice President and General Counsel for the Virtua group of companies. He also sits on Virtua Credit’s investment committee. Bret has over 30 years of legal experience in both business transactions and commercial, bankruptcy, and appellate litigation. He has acted as lead counsel on matters ranging from complex real estate and finance transactions to restructuring operating companies to litigating Chapter 11 plans through confirmation. Bret has been active in local, state, and national bar associations, written articles and spoken at numerous legal programs, represented pro bono clients in trial and appellate court proceedings, and served as a Pro Tem Judge for the Arizona Court of Appeals and President of the Arizona chapter of the Turnaround Management Association. For the first 19 years of his practice, Bret was an associate and partner at one of the leading law firms in the Southwest. He also practiced with a smaller firm and as a solo practitioner.  Bret attended Brown University, where he graduated magna cum laude with majors in history and psychology, and Northwestern University School of Law, where he was Articles Editor for the Northwestern University Law Review.