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Matteo
Percontino

Associate

Office 201.525.6298
Email mpercontino@coleschotz.com
Ruth Chave |Legal Practice Assistant
201.489.3000 ext. 5027
rchave@coleschotz.com
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Matteo Percontino is an associate in the firm’s Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring Department.

 

Experience

Matteo focuses his practice on bankruptcy and creditors’ rights where he represents debtors, landlords, secured, and unsecured creditors in chapter 7, 11, and 13 bankruptcy cases and Assignment for the Benefit of Creditor proceedings. He has experience guiding debtors through chapter 11 reorganizations and chapter 7 liquidations, asserting and protecting creditor claims, selling debtor assets, protecting executory contract interests, and asserting or lifting the automatic stay.

Matteo also represents bankruptcy trustees, state court assignees, judgment creditors, and civil litigation plaintiffs and defendants in federal, bankruptcy, and state court proceedings. He is experienced in prosecuting and defending actions to avoid and recover fraudulent conveyances and preferential transfers, actions to avoid unperfected liens, actions to deny a debtor a discharge, accounts receivable actions, successor liability actions, contract dispute actions, and actions to recover on promissory notes. In addition to litigating claims, he has experience collecting on judgments.

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

Areas of focus

    Practices
  • Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring
  • Chapter 11 Debtor Reorganizations & Representations
  • Creditors’ Committees
  • Bankruptcy Litigation
  • Asset Purchasers
  • Unsecured Creditors
  • Estate Fiduciaries
  • Secured Creditors' Rights
  • Litigation
  • Bankruptcy Litigation

Education

New York Law School, J.D.
Montclair State University, B.A.

Bar & Court Admissions

New York
New Jersey
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
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