Rachel Biblo Block
Counsel
Areas of Focus
- Financial Restructuring
- Oil & Gas
- Midstream Oil & Gas
- Pro Bono
- Metaverse
Rachel Biblo Block's practice focuses on complex chapter 11 cases, bankruptcy litigation and out-of-court restructurings.
She has experience representing debtors, lenders, ad hoc groups, bidders, and statutory committees before bankruptcy courts throughout the country.
Rachel has been recognized in every edition of The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch, and she was selected as a semi-finalist for the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation’s Rising Star Award in 2019.
Prior to joining Akin Gump, Rachel was an associate at a leading international law firm where she represented retail and energy companies in all aspects of their chapter 11 bankruptcy cases. In law school, she served as a judicial extern to The Hon. Richard J. Leon in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
- Pipeline Health: Counsel to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the chapter 11 cases of Pipeline Health and its affiliates, an independent health care network with hospitals in California, Texas and Illinois, involving more than $603 million in liabilities.
- Just Energy: Counsel to the prepetition lenders and debtors in possession (DIP) lenders in the chapter 15 cases of Just Energy and its affiliates, a leading North American distributor of electricity and natural gas, involving more than $440 million in liabilities.
- Martin Midstream Partners: Counsel to the debtor and its affiliate, a diversified midstream business operating in the Gulf Coast, in restructuring more than $364 million of unsecured notes, which involved an out-of-court exchange, tender offer and solicitation of votes on a prepackaged plan of reorganization.
- Elk Petroleum: Counsel to AllianceBernstein in its role as prepetition lender and post-petition lender in the chapter 11 cases of Elk Petroleum Aneth and its affiliates, an oil and gas producer and developer, involving more than $125 million in liabilities.
- CSI Compressco: Counsel to an ad hoc group of bondholders in an exchange offer for $215 million in newly issued notes of CSI Compressco, a provider of compression services and equipment for the natural gas and oil industry.
EducationJ.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 2014
A.B., Brown University, 2011
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 2014
A.B., Brown University, 2011
Bar AdmissionsDelaware
Texas
Delaware
Texas
- Outstanding Young Attorney Award, Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas, 2024
- Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch: Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law; Litigation – Bankruptcy, 2021-2023.
- International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation Rising Star Award Semi-Finalist, 2019
- Director, Board of Directors of Jewish Family Service of Greater Dallas
- Member, International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation
- Member, The Hon. John C. Ford American Inn of Court
