“[Morgan’s] intelligence, motivation, and commitment to the restructuring and legal profession (and beyond) make her not only a fantastic attorney, but an exceptional person.”
Morgan L. Patterson is a partner with Womble Bond Dickinson in Wilmington, Del., where her practice focuses on corporate bankruptcy and creditors’ rights in complex chapter 11 proceedings. She has broad experience representing debtors, creditors’ committees, lenders, bondholders, secured and unsecured creditors, liquidation trustees, landlords, asset-purchasers, and other interested entities in various bankruptcy reorganization and liquidation proceedings. Ms. Patterson’s bankruptcy work includes all matters of litigation and transactions, including involuntary petitions, avoidance actions, relief-fromstay proceedings, trustee motions, sale and purchase of assets, executory contracts and lease issues, postpetition financing, disclosure statements, plan confirmation, and representing liquidating trustees and plan administrators in the winding down of estates. She also has expertise with cross-border insolvency proceedings, specifically with respect to the consummation of large cross-border asset sales. Ms. Patterson is Membership chair for the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation’s Delaware Chapter and is a member of the Federal Bar Association, ABI, the Delaware Bankruptcy Inn of Court and the Delaware State Bar Association. She has been listed in Chambers USA as a Ranked Lawyer for Bankruptcy/Restructuring in Delaware since 2022 and was listed as a “Delaware Rising Star” in Bankruptcy by Super Lawyers from 2018-19. Ms. Patterson received her B.A. magna cum laude in 2005 from Temple University and her J.D. magna cum laude in 2009 from Widener University School of Law, where she was Bluebook editor of the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law.
Education
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J.D., Widener