Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2019 Patrick Potter is the founder of Potter Law & Consulting PLLC, a Washington D.C. based firm focused on insolvency and restructuring solutions. He has been practicing corporate chapter 11 (representing debtors, creditors, creditor committees, and other constituents), for 37 years and regularly appears in bankruptcy courts throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. Patrick represents clients in a broad range of industries, including commercial real estate, construction, health care, hospitality, and energy. His domestic practice is comprised primarily of representing chapter 11 debtors. He serves as Co-Chair of the American Bankruptcy Institute's Commercial Real Estate Committee.
Patrick has worked internationally on dozens of capacity building projects (including statute and rule drafting and implementation, as well as judicial and practitioner training), since 2014, with a focus on the Middle East North Africa (MENA) Region. He has been a speaker and presenter at more than 30 conferences, seminars, workshops, roundtables, and cases study programs in and with MENA Region countries, with a particular emphasis on bankruptcy development and implementation in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Morocco, Egypt, Kuwait and Qatar. He has also represented clients in chapter 15 proceedings in the United States.
Patrick is an INSOL International Fellow, American Bar Foundation Fellow, and serves on the International Insolvency Institute's Membership Committee as well as INSOL International's MENA Advisory Council.
