Liz Boydston

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469-895-4413
lboydston@gutnicki.com 8080 N Central Expressway, Suite 1700, Dallas, TX 75206
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Education
Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, cum laude
Baylor University, magna cum laude

Admissions
Texas

Court Admissions
US Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit

Texas Supreme Court

US District Court, Southern District of Texas

US District Court, Northern District of Texas

US District Court, Western District of Texas

US District Court, Eastern District of Texas

US District Court, Colorado

US Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Texas

US Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Texas

US Bankruptcy Court, Western District of Texas

US Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Texas'

Memberships & Associations

International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC), Chair Elect

Turnaround Management Association (TMA), Programs Co-Chair

American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI)

John C. Ford Bankruptcy Inn of Court, Executive Committee

Texas Bankruptcy Bench Bar 2023, Planning Committee

Turnaround Management Association Network of Women (TMA NOW)

Texas State Bar

Dallas Bar Association

Awards & Recognition

Super Lawyers in Bankruptcy, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020

Global M&A Americas Rising Star Dealmaker, 2021

Named to D Magazine’s Best Lawyers in Dallas list, Bankruptcy & Workout, 2021

American Bankruptcy Institute 40 Under 40, 2020

Winner of Turnaround Atlas Award for Private Equity Turnaround for Adeptus Health Bankruptcy, 2018

Super Lawyers “Rising Star” in Bankruptcy, 2014-2020

Best Lawyers Under 40, 2019, D Magazine

WE LEAD (Women Empowered to Lead) program, 2018

Up-And-Coming 50: Women Texas Rising Stars, 2017-2020

Up-And-Coming 100: Texas Rising Stars, 2017-2020

Liz Boydston is a partner in the firm’s Bankruptcy and Litigation groups and focuses her practice on complex Chapter 11 cases, Subchapter V cases, commercial litigation, adversary proceedings, fraudulent transfer and preference litigation, 363 sales, and workouts throughout the United States.

Liz represents public and private, for-profit and non-profit hospitals and acute care centers, municipalities, assisted living, retirement, and senior housing centers, health care providers, public oil and gas development companies, refining and fuel-marketing corporations, drilling and exploration companies, financial institutions, property developers, retailers, grocers, and multinational and multi-subsidiary corporations in complex restructuring, insolvency, and litigation matters.

Liz has extensive Ponzi Scheme defense litigation experience and has defended investors in schemes valuing up to $3.6 billion in both receiverships and bankruptcy cases. She also served as law clerk to Chief Bankruptcy Judge Bill Parker, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

HEALTHCARE REPRESENTATION

  • Debtors’ Counsel to PM Management Killeen and its affiliates (skilled nursing and assisted living facilities).

  • Reorganized Debtors’ Counsel to Senior Care Centers, LLC (skilled nursing facilities with assisted living and rehabilitation services).

  • Debtors’ Counsel to Edgemere Senior Living (senior and independent living).

  • Debtors’ Counsel to Adeptus Health Inc., 140 Ch. 11 debtors who operated full-service, for-profit hospitals and emergency rooms across the U.S.

  • Counsel to purchaser and operator of Home Health Agencies in California.

  • Represented emerged national healthcare organization as Reorganized Debtors’ counsel in daily operations, claims administration, healthcare transactions, real estate negotiations, and government investigations.

  • Counsel to radiology centers in acquisition.

  • Counsel to Unsecured Creditors’ Committee in Orianna Health Systems, 135 Ch. 11 debtor case.

  • Reorganized Debtor’s counsel to non-profit hospital.

  • Represented hospital municipality in contentious bankruptcy litigation involving more than $110 million in outstanding debt and rent due from debtor.

  • Debtor’s counsel to a Texas physician’s hospital.

  • Represented non-profit hospital in litigation against medical billing and coding provider.

  • Represented DIP Lender to group of senior housing debtors.

  • Represented purchaser of a hospital through a Section 363 sale.

  • Represented the Board of a Continuing Care Retirement Community.

  • Represented one of the largest pharmaceutical manufacturers as a creditor and supplier.

  • Represented Official Resident Committee in senior housing and Continuing Care.

  • Represented Retirement Committee in bankruptcy case.

  • Represented Unsecured Creditors Committee in large national dental practice.

RETAIL & FRANCHISE REPRESENTATION

  • Represent global food service franchisor in leasing portfolio management.

  • Represent global franchisor in franchisees’ bankruptcy matters.

  • Debtors’ Counsel to DFW Alamo Drafthouse and its affiliated debtors.

  • Debtors’ Counsel to Lucky’s Market Parent Company, LLC and 22 affiliated debtors in Ch. 11 cases in Delaware.

  • Represent numerous franchisees in out-of-court restructurings and preparation for Ch. 11 bankruptcy cases.

ENERGY REPRESENTATION

  • Debtors’ Counsel in the Ch. 11 bankruptcy cases of PetroShare Corp. and CFW Resources, LLC.

  • Counsel to environmental class action plaintiffs in Talen Energy bankruptcy.

  • Counsel to ERISA class plaintiffs in Talen Energy bankruptcy.

  • Counsel to Unsecured Creditors Committee in EP Energy Corporation’s Ch. 11 bankruptcy cases.

  • Conflicts counsel to Creditors’ Committee in the Ch. 11 bankruptcy cases of Southland Royalty Company, LLC.

  • Debtors’ counsel to publicly-traded crude oil and natural gas development companies.

  • Represented DIP Lender, Senior Secured Lender, Equity Holder, and Stalking Horse Bidder in 75 Ch. 11 debtor case where the debtors operated an international fuel supply and storage network.

  • Represent national financial institutions in numerous oil and gas exploration, upstream, midstream, and downstream.

  • Debtor's counsel to a publicly traded independent oil and gas company and its affiliated subsidiaries.

  • Debtor’s counsel to offshore drilling companies that provided drilling services to natural gas exploration companies.

AVIATION REPRESENTATION

  • Local counsel and conflicts counsel to Creditors’ Committee in the Ch. 11 bankruptcy cases of Ravn Air Group, Inc., et. al.

  • Represented Alaska-owned refining and fuel marketing company in Peninsula Airways, Inc. (PenAir) Ch. 11 case.

  • Represented global agent in CHC Helicopters, international helicopter bankruptcy case where helicopter operator provides transport to oil and gas platforms worldwide.

  • Represent private, for-profit corporation in national airline bankruptcy case.

  • Represent fuel and parts suppliers in current national airline bankruptcy case.

REAL ESTATE REPRESENTATION

  • Represent Karlin Real Estate and 11 of its affiliates, subsidiaries, and SPEs in 11 bankruptcy cases in Texas and Delaware.

  • Represent various real estate inventors, real estate developers, and real estate funds and their SPEs in litigation, loan enforcement, and foreclosures and in the bankruptcy cases of their borrowers.

TRUSTEE REPRESENTATION

  • Represent Ch. 7 Trustee in litigation.