Mr. Covin's practice focuses on bankruptcy and litigation matters. He has represented a wide variety of clients, including, among others, debtors, trustees, unsecured creditors committees, bank groups, secured creditors, individual financial institutions, and indenture trustees in a variety of bankruptcy matters, including contested plan confirmation hearings, preference and fraudulent transfer actions, automatic stay litigation, non-dischargeability actions, claims objections, and other forms of bankruptcy-related litigation. In his federal and state court litigation practice, Mr. Covin has also worked on a broad array of complex commercial litigation matters, including director and officer liability, professional malpractice cases, and oil and gas disputes.

Prior to joining Wick Phillips, Mr. Covin was a partner with Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, LLP in Dallas and with Freeman Mills PC in Tyler.

Before practicing law, Mr. Covin worked in the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs in New York, where he marketed equity derivative products to Goldman's corporate clients. Mr. Covin also served as chief financial officer of Endeca Technologies, Inc., a high-technology startup in Cambridge, MA that was recently purchased by Oracle Corporation.