Waldrep Wall and Eight Attorneys Ranked in Chambers USA 2025 Legal Guide

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Jun 5
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Chambers and Partners released its USA 2025 Legal Guide, and Waldrep Wall Babcock & Bailey PLLC was ranked as a leading firm, Band 2 in Bankruptcy/Restructuring and Band 3 in Healthcare. Eight Waldrep Wall attorneys were also individually ranked.

Chambers and Partners is the leading independent professional legal research company operating across 200 jurisdictions. It delivers detailed rankings and insight into the world's leading lawyers and law firms based on in-depth interviews and objective research.

Ranked Practice Areas

Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Band 2 in North Carolina)

Led by Tom Waldrep, a former United States Bankruptcy Judge, the Firm’s bankruptcy practice provides solutions to debtors, creditors, creditors’ committees, distressed businesses, trustees, and receivers. Waldrep Wall attorneys guide clients in all types of business bankruptcies, corporate restructurings, insolvencies, workouts, and related issues. The firm regularly represents companies in distress, both in out-of-court workouts and as debtors in the Chapter 11 process. The firm also helps companies regarding receiverships, plans of arrangement, loan forbearance and extension agreements, deeds in lieu, guaranty and foreclosure litigation, and other non-bankruptcy workouts and restructurings. The firm routinely represents official committees of unsecured creditors in Chapter 11 bankruptcies, and the bankruptcy partners often serve as trustees and as general and special council to Chapter 11, Chapter 7, and plan trustees.

"Waldrep Wall Babcock & Bailey stands out in the industry due to its combination of deep legal expertise, personalized client service and innovative problem-solving." Bankruptcy/Restructuring Client Feedback Chambers USA 2025

Healthcare (Band 3 in North Carolina)

Waldrep Wall works to keep physicians, dentists, medical practices, management companies and clinical research entities compliant. The firm also assists providers and managed care entities in negotiating managed care agreements and related regulatory compliance. Its healthcare lawyers typically represent hospitals and physician practices in managed care disputes. They also have broad experience with practice acquisition, provider licensure, and in representing carriers and insurers with respect to North Carolina insurance regulatory matters. The firm routinely assists clients in matters relating to regulatory compliance, physician employment agreements, healthcare contracts, licensure board investigations, healthcare restructuring and insolvency, corporate practice of medicine, and long-term care and senior housing. In healthcare, the firm is led by Jim Wall, who has provided healthcare legal guidance for decades.

"The team bounces things off of each other, giving clients expert advice across many areas of law and business." Healthcare Client Feedback Chambers USA 2025