Ms. Demetra Liggins

Demetra L. Liggins is a partner with McGuireWoods in Houston and has nearly 20 years of experience in business finance and restructurings for a variety of large and small public and private companies.Ms. Liggins has led many representations of bankruptcy clients, working on both in-court and out-of-court restructurings. She works with her clients to purchase and sell assets in distressed situations,\nsecure financing, and negotiate structure and implement cash-collateral orders and debtor-in-possession financing agreements. Her clients include health care systems, retail corporations, financial institutions, oil and gas companies, partnerships and private-equity funds, among others. Ms. Liggins is a frequent speaker on bankruptcy and finance-related topics, in addition to speaking on career goals, branding, and mentorship to minority and female audiences ranging from established professionals to students. She has been actively involved in numerous organizations, including serving as Southern Regional director and a former Fellow of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity; past Houston Network chair of theInternational Women?s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC); a member of the Women?sBusiness Alliance, Greater Houston Partnership; a member and former chair of the Bankruptcy Section of the Houston Bar Association; a member of the Cumberland Law School Advisory Board; a member of the Women?s Energy Network; and a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, American BarFoundation, Houston Young Lawyers Foundation and Texas Bar Foundation. She has been listed in TheBest Lawyers in America, Texas Super Lawyers and Texas Rising Stars by Thomson Reuters, as a LawFirm Rainmaker by Diversity & the Bar, and to Houston?s ?Top Lawyers? by H Texas magazine. She has also been featured in Law360?s Minority Powerbroker Q&A series. She also was honored in 2020 by the Houston Association for Women Attorneys Premier Women in Law and for the 2019 Texas MinorityCounsel Lifetime Achievement Award. Ms. Liggins received her B.S. in business administration cum laude from Christian Brothers University in 1997 and her J.D. cum laude from the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in 2000.