Matteo Percontino, is a Member of the firm’s Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring Department and has more than 14 years of experience in bankruptcy matters, including related litigation.

Experience

Matteo is an experienced restructuring attorney who advises clients in federal, state, and out-of-court restructuring proceedings. His practice focuses on all aspects of restructuring and distressed businesses, including chapter 11 debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, bankruptcy trustees, litigants, and other stakeholders.

Matteo has experience guiding debtors through chapter 11 reorganizations and chapter 7 liquidations across various industries, including health care, retail, real estate, manufacturing, and hospitality. In addition, he has represented clients in asserting creditors’ rights, protecting executory contract interests, negotiating critical vendor agreements, and purchasers of assets.

He has also represented bankruptcy litigants in various contested proceedings, including, among others, lift stay motions, claim objections, preference actions, fraudulent transfer actions, and non-dischargeability actions.

Prior to joining Cole Schotz, Matteo was an associate in-house counsel for a national accounting firm. He also co-authored an article published in the American Bankruptcy Trustee Journal titled “Get Your Priorities Straight! The Conflict Between Bankruptcy Code Sections 364(c) and 726(b).”

He previously interned for the Honorable Novalyn L. Winfield, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the District of New Jersey.

Representative Matters

• Counsel to retail debtors in the chapter 11 cases of Sam Ash Music Corporation; DirectBuy Home Improvement, Inc. d/b/a ZGallerie; RTW Retailwinds, Inc. d/b/a New York & Co.; and Christopher & Banks Corp.
• Co-counsel to the debtors in the chapter 11 cases of Tupperware Brands Corporation, a global brand for food storage and other kitchen and beverage solutions.
• Co-counsel to the debtors and counsel to the Plan Administrator in the chapter 11 cases of Vyaire Medical Inc., a global company focused on the sale of respiratory and related health consumables in more than 100 countries.
• Counsel to the liquidating trustee in Eagle Hospitality Real Estate Investment Trust, advising on wind-down affairs of formerly publicly traded Singapore-based REIT following its bankruptcy sale of 14 hotel property assets in the United States.
• Special litigation counsel to the chapter 7 trustee in the bankruptcy case of a sports card manufacturer in prosecuting claims under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Copyright Act.
• Counsel to the debtors in the chapter 11 cases of CP Holdings LLC, a former operator of aged care assisted living and memory care facilities in Alabama and Texas.
• Counsel to the debtors in the chapter 11 cases of LVI Intermediate Holdings Inc. d/b/a Vision Group Holdings, which operated two leading LASIK surgery brands throughout the country.
• Counsel to creditors in the chapter 11 cases of Katerra Inc. and Toys “R” Us, Inc. chapter 11 cases.
• Counsel to the chapter 7 trustee in numerous chapter 7 cases before the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Districts of New Jersey and Delaware, including, Linens ‘n Things, Inc., The Russ Companies, Inc., NJ Affordable Homes Corp.

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