Patrick Potter, Hugh Ray Hailed as Global Bankruptcy & Restructuring Leaders in 2024 Lawdragon 500 Guide

The guide conducts and gathers research on veteran bankruptcy and financial restructuring lawyers throughout the U.S. as well as litigators who specialize in detangling financial failures. A lawyer must have been in practice for 10 years, serve as a partner, and have decades of experience in significant roles in the largest, most complex reorganizations to be considered for guide inclusion.

Potter provides clients with innovative and practical solutions to business problems in the commercial real estate, health care and hospitality sectors. Potter has both a national and international practice and has appeared before more than 50 bankruptcy judges and federal courts throughout the country. He has won several awards and has been otherwise recognized for his successes in saving financially troubled businesses and thousands of jobs.

Ray’s practice focuses on complex reorganization, bankruptcy and commercial litigation. Ray has represented publicly traded companies who successfully reorganized in bankruptcy and major creditors in their collection from complex bankruptcies. With decades of experience trying cases, he is well-known as trial counsel in several high-profile and bet-the-company cases.