Deborah Williamson – For more than 30 years, clients have turned to Deborah Williamson for leadership and advice on bankruptcy and restructuring matters. Deborah is a national leader in bankruptcy law, and she leverages her experience and insight to advise clients across industries on counter-party risk, bankruptcy litigation, and asset acquisition.  Deborah is widely recognized as one of the top bankruptcy lawyers in the United States and one of the top lawyers—period—in Texas. She was selected to serve on the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) Bankruptcy Reform Commission, received lifetime achievement awards from both ABI and The San Antonio Business Journal, and is recognized in legal publications such as Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The Best Lawyers in America, and Super Lawyers.  In 2016, Deborah authored the second edition of When Gushers Go Dry, The Essentials of Oil & Gas Bankruptcy to address new realities in the oil fields, the first guide to oil and gas bankruptcy. She had previously co-authored Bankruptcy Litigation for the Commercial Litigator.  Deborah has been named a leader in her field by Chambers USA since 2003. She was listed by Texas Super Lawyers among the “Top 100 Lawyers in Texas,” the “Top 50 Women Lawyers in Texas,” and the “Top 50 Lawyers in Central Texas” since that honor’s inception. She has also been included in The Best Lawyers in America for more than 20 years.  She has served as co-chair of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Litigation Committee of the Litigation Section of the American Bar Association and chair of the SBOT Bankruptcy Law Section.  Ms. Williamson practices in the areas of Government Reorganization and Restructuring and Restructuring and Bankruptcy within the industries of Energy and Natural Resources, Financial Services, Loan Workouts, Restructuring, and Bankruptcy, and Oil and Gas.  She is a graduate of the University of Houston Law Center, J.D., cum laude, Class of 1981, and the University of Texas at El Paso, B.A., with honors, 1977.  She was admitted to the bar of Texas in 1982 and is admitted to practice by the United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit and the United States District Court Northern, Southern, Western and Eastern Districts of Texas.