Lee E. Potts

Lee’s practice focuses heavily on Mergers & Acquisitions; however, he has experience in a wide variety of corporate and securities law matters, including Private Equity and Fundraising Transactions, Debt Financings, and Lending Transactions, Commercial Contracts, Start-up, and Closely Held Business Matters, and Outside General Counsel Services. Prior to co-founding Potts Blacklock Senterfitt, PLLC in 2011, Lee was in private practice for over 13 years including over 10 years at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP. Lee received his law degree with Honors from The University of Texas School of Law. Lee also received a Bachelor of Business Administration with High Honors in Accounting at the University of Texas at Austin and a Master’s Degree in professional accounting with High Honors with a tax concentration at the University of Texas at Austin. Lee has been selected by Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuter) as a Super Lawyer in Mergers & Acquisitions. He was also named to the Austin Monthly list of top Austin Attorneys for Corporate Finance and Mergers and Acquisitions and Securities Law. Lee was recently recognized as a member of the Texas Bar College. He has served in numerous civic and charitable leadership roles in the community including with CASA of Travis County, the Seton 50, the Westlake Chamber of Commerce, and Leadership Austin, and Leadership Westlake. Awards and Honors Super Lawyers® Selectees Lee E. Potts included in a Super Lawyers® list Honors Texas Rising Star, Mergers and Acquisitions, named by Law and Politics Media, Inc. and published in Texas Monthly, 2009 Super Lawyers, 2019-2024 Texas Rising Star, Super Lawyers, 2009 Austin Monthly, Top Lawyers, 2019-2024 Austin Under 40, Finalist, Legal Category, 2010 Leadership Austin, Essential Class of 2012 Leadership Westlake, Class of 2018 Other Sources of Feedback About Lee E. Potts Included on the 2026Texas Super Lawyers list Past Lists 2025 Texas Super Lawyers list 2024 Texas Super Lawyers list 2023 Texas Super Lawyers list 2022 Texas Super Lawyers list 2021 Texas Super Lawyers list 2020 Texas Super Lawyers list 2019 Texas Super Lawyers list 2009 Texas Super Lawyers list

• Member

• Brown McCarroll, LLP, 2009 - 2011
• Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, 1999 - 2009

• Provides Pro Bono Legal Services to Texas C-BAr
• Provides Pro Bono Legal Services to the University of Texas Community Development Clinic
• CASA of Travis County
• Austin Wine & Food Foundation
• Westlake Chamber of Commerce
• Austin Bar Foundation Fellow
• The Seton 50, Founder
• Leadership Austin

• Texas, 1999
• Specialties and Certifications
• Certified Public Accountant licensed in the state of Texas, 1993

• State Bar of Texas, 1999 - Present (Member)
• American Bar Association (Member)
• Austin Young Lawyers Association (Member)
• Board of Directors of CASA of Travis County
• Texas Young Lawyers Association
• Travis County Bar Association