J. Patrick Darby

J. Patrick Darby is executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of Encompass Health in Birmingham, Ala. Before joining Encompass Health in 2016, he was a bankruptcy lawyer at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings and an adjunct professor at the Cumberland School of Law. He has represented debtors in chapters 11 and 9 and out-of-court restructurings, and secured lenders, bondholders, construction companies, buyers of distressed assets, trade vendors and preference/fraudulent-transfer defendants. Mr. Darby’s significant health care cases include filing two chapter 11s for Carraway Methodist Hospital, restructuring Cooper Green Mercy Hospital in the Jefferson County chapter 9 case, representing the buyers of hospitals and other health care properties in several chapter 11 and chapter 9 cases, and representing debtors and lenders in various assisted living, skilled nursing facility and other health care cases. He also was part of the defense team in the AseraCare False Claims Act case. Mr.Darby is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy. While in practice, he was listed in Chambers USA, The Best Lawyers in America and Alabama Super Lawyers. Mr. Darby received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College and his J.D. magna cum laude from Washington & Lee School of Law, where he was editor in chief of its law review. He subsequently clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.