Thompson Hine LLP is proud to announce that partners Sean A. Gordon and John C. Allerding have been named to the 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers.
This prestigious recognition honors the world’s top legal advisors who are called upon when companies and major entities face existential crises—whether due to massive fraud, market upheaval, mismanagement, or fierce competition. These lawyers guide organizations through challenging circumstances, using experience, negotiation, and financial and litigation skills to achieve the best outcomes.
The Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers list highlights professionals who respond when survival is at stake, recognized for their ability to find solutions through negotiation, litigation, or financial restructuring.
Sean A. Gordon serves as the practice group leader of Thompson Hine’s Business Restructuring practice. With a focus on bankruptcy reorganization and litigation, cross-border insolvency, creditors’ rights, loan restructuring, and commercial and real estate litigation, Sean represents a diverse array of clients including lenders, corporations, creditors’ committees, trustees, and debtors. His experience spans federal, state, and bankruptcy courts nationwide, and he is known for handling high-profile, multimillion-dollar distressed commercial real estate workouts, cross-border insolvency proceedings, and complex Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 cases.
John C. Allerding is a partner in Thompson Hine’s Business Restructuring and Business Litigation practice groups. He represents clients across a wide range of industries in matters involving commercial and creditors’ rights, bankruptcy, distressed asset workouts, asset purchase agreements, preference and fraudulent transfer litigation, and Uniform Commercial Code disputes. His experience includes representing Fortune 500 lenders, real estate holding companies, bankruptcy trustees, and creditor committees in complex proceedings, as well as defending officers and directors in fiduciary duty litigation.