Sean Davis is a shareholder in Winstead's Business Restructuring/Bankruptcy Practice Group. Sean's practice focuses primarily on commercial bankruptcy and restructuring matters in numerous industries, including: real estate, construction, equipment and vehicle leasing and finance, oil and gas, maritime shipping, health care, food service, office supply, and manufacturing. Sean's experience includes representing and counseling secured lenders, lessors, trade creditors, and financial institutions in a wide-variety of liquidation and reorganization proceedings and related bankruptcy and civil litigation. Prior to licensure, Sean was a judicial intern for The Hon. Leticia Z. Paul in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas and for The Hon. Terry Jennings in the Court of Appeals of Texas, First District. Sean also serves as the pro bono coordinator for Winstead's Houston office.
Awards & Recognition
- The Best Lawyers in America, (BL Rankings, LLC), 2024
- Texas Rising Star, Thomson Reuters, 2015-2019
- Houston's Top Lawyers, H Texas, 2014-2017
Professional & Community
- State Bar of Texas
- American Bar Association
- American Bar Foundation, Fellow
- Texas Bar Foundation, Sustaining Life Member
- Texas Minority Counsel Program, Steering Committee (2021-present)
- University of Texas - Jay L. Westbrook Bankruptcy Conference, Planning Committee (2016-present)
- Houston Bar Association
- Houston Bar Foundation
- Houston Young Lawyers Association (Leadership Academy, 2012-2013)
- Houston Association of Young Bankruptcy Lawyers (Treasurer, 2013-2016)
- Arthur L. Moller/David B. Foltz, Jr. American Inn of Court
- Houston Pro Bono Joint Initiative (Coordinating Committee, 2011-present)
- Southwest Association of Bank Counsel
- Turnaround Management Association
- American Bankruptcy Institute
Practices
- Restructuring & Insolvency
- Syndicated Finance
Education
- Cornell Law School
- J.D., 2009
- Certificate in Public Law
- Executive Editor, Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy
- Cornell Law School Moot Court Board
- The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) Excellence for the Future Award
- Rice University
- B.A., Political Science, 2006
- B.A., History, 2006
- B.A., Managerial Studies, 2006
- Rice University President's Honor Roll
Admissions
- Texas, 2009
- New York, 2018
- U.S. District and Bankruptcy Courts, Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas
- U.S. District and Bankruptcy Courts, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
