Zachary McKay manages the firm’s Bankruptcy Practice Group and directs the efforts of a team of experienced insolvency and creditors’ rights attorneys and other professionals. His primary area of practice is bankruptcy and corporate restructuring, with a focus on representing oil and gas industry creditors.  Zachary has represented both secured and unsecured oil and gas service company creditors of all sizes from start to finish in countless Chapter 7, complex Chapter 11, and Chapter 15 insolvencies across the country. He is commonly tasked with navigating multi-million-dollar lien claims through the complex chapter 11 bankruptcy process. Zachary has also counseled clients through dozens of creditor committees and defended a myriad of clients with preference exposure positions. Zachary has extensive litigation experience and has appeared in and led trial teams in both state court and federal bankruptcy courts across the United States. When not focusing on bankruptcy matters, Zachary concentrates on assisting business clients on statutory lien right issues for nearly all states, as well as other oil and gas or commercial issues.

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Zachary has been a guest lecturer on various bankruptcy topics at the University of Houston, South Texas College of Law Houston, and Texas Southern University.  He has also spoken at seminars on topics of defending preferential claims, enforcement of liens, and legal developments in the oil & gas industry.

 

Prior to joining the firm, Zachary worked at a bankruptcy firm that specialized in representing Chapter 7 and 11 bankruptcy trustees. Zachary earned his B.B.A. in Management from Texas A&M University in 2009 and his J.D. from South Texas College of Law in 2012. While at South Texas, he was a member of several award-winning moot court teams, and a Note and Comment Editor on the South Texas Law Review.

 

When not serving his clients, Zachary enjoys travelling, riding in the Texas MS-150, working on his yard, and spending time with his wife, Brittney, newborn daughter, Scarlett, and 15-year-old Dalmatian, Shelby, at their home in Spring, Texas.

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Recognitions:

• Super Lawyers—2022 Texas Rising Stars

• Super Lawyers—2021 Texas Rising Stars

• Super Lawyers—2020 Texas Rising Stars

 

Affiliations & Roles:

• Turnover Management Association—Houston Chapter, Member

• Houston Association for Young Bankruptcy Attorneys—President 2020–22

• Arthur L. Moller-David B. Foltz, Jr. American Inn of Court—Executive Board 2018–22

• State Bar of Texas, Bankruptcy Section, Member

• Houston Bar Association, Bankruptcy Section, Member

 

Bar Admissions:

• Texas, 2013

• U.S. District & Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Texas

• U.S. District & Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Texas

• U.S. District & Bankruptcy Court, Western District of Texas

• U.S. District & Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Texas

 

Credentials:

• J.D., South Texas College of Law, Houston, Texas, 2012, Note and Comment Editor, South Texas Law Review

• B.B.A., Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 2009