Matthew A. Rosenstein
The Law Offices of Matthew A. Rosenstein devotes a substantial amount of its legal practice to business bankruptcy, complex financial restructuring and business litigation.
We also represent debtors in consumer bankruptcy cases.Matt Rosenstein is Board Certified* in Business Bankruptcy Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and has practiced both Business and Consumer Bankruptcy Law for over 36 years. He is a qualified mediator in bankruptcy, commercial and family law matters.
Our present practice includes complex financial restructuring and bankruptcy reorganizations, as well as complex bankruptcy and commercial litigation, representing debtors and creditors and other parties.
While small in number, we keep pace with the latest innovations in delivering legal services by continually investing in training and technology. We utilize and maintain state of the art technology, enabling the firm to efficiently deliver cost-effective in-house legal services and engage in successful trial techniques. We also network, and where required, associate with legal counsel competent in other ares of the law to facilitate effective legal services for our Clients.
Our practice is "high tech" and we have developed techniques for trying and winning cases using audio/visual techniques utilizing software designed for trial.
Mr. Rosenstein is admitted to all Federal & State Texas Courts, U.S. Courts of Appeal for the 5th & 10th Circuits and the United States Supreme Court.
Matt Rosenstein was named a "Texas Super Lawyer" in the October 2004, 2005 & 2006 issues of Texas Monthly and Texas Super Lawyers. This distinction is limited to the top 5% of Texas Lawyers.
During 1992-94, Mr. Rosenstein was Bankruptcy Council for the Resolution Trust Corporation Headquarters, Washington, D.C. where he was responsible for negotiating a $104 million settlement paid to the RTC by Dallas real estate developer, Craig Hall. The settlement was one of the largest in RTC history.
Mr. Rosenstein recently finished representing secured creditors in the Asarco, LLC, Chapter 11 case pending in Corpus Christi, Texas, including the Salt River Project (the electrical utility serving Asarco in Arizona) where he was successful in negotiating "adequate protection" for future services and payment in full for pre-petition secured debt. He also represented Gila & Pinal Counties in the collection of substantial pre-petition ad valorem taxes and was successful in obtaining payment of pre-petition ad valorem taxes for Gila County during the pendency of the case.
We have substantial recent experience in representing oil & gas exploration companies as debtors in Chapter 11, including the following: (1) Confirming a Chapter 11 Plan for Reliant Exploration, Ltd., a John R. "Jack" Stanley affiliate; and (2) a company in with in excess of $100 million in valued reserves involved in oil & gas exploration and production in Texas, Wyoming & New Mexico. We also represented ERLY Industries, Inc., a public company (parent of American Rice, Inc.) to obtain confirmation of a Chapter 11 plan of reorganization and successfully obtained confirmation of a Chapter 11 Plan for an individual accused by the Texas Attorney General's Office and the Texas State Securities Board of the sale of unregistered securities.
- Texas, 1971;
- U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Western & Eastern Districts of Texas;
- U.S. Courts of Appeal for the 5th and 10th Circuits;
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1974;
- U.S. Tax Court, 1971.
- Baylor University School of Law, Waco, Texas, 1971, J.D.;
- Law Review: Baylor Law Review, Coments Editor, 1970-1971;
- Law Review: Baylor Law Review, Recent Developments Editor, 1970-1971;
- Law Review: Baylor Law Review, Legislation Editor, 1970-1971;
- University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 1967;
- BBA, Major: Finance.
- Bankruptcy: Text, Statutes, Rules (2d Ed.)(Contributing Editor) Robert E. Ginsburg, Prentice Hall Law & Business, 1991-1992;
- Federal Bar Association, Bankruptcy Section, National Editorial Boards, 1991 & 1992;
- New Markets for Troubled Real Estate (Your Secured Lender), Bankruptcy Briefs, Vol 1., No. 1, Federal Bar Association, Spring, 1991;
- Commentary-Direct From the Fifth Circuit, Texas Lawyer, P. 14, November 25, 1991;
- Commentary-New Statue Helps Debtors Take the Cure, Texas Lawyer, July 15, 1991;
- The Plays the Thing or Chapter 11 Plans and Non-Debtor Releases--Do They Go Too Far?, Vol 2, No. 2, Bankruptcy Briefs, Federal Bar Association, Summer, 1992;
- A Bankruptcy Lawyer's Briefing and Trial NoteBook (Compilation of Recent Developments, Indexted by Topic, of Bankruptcy and Commercial Law).
- The Proposed Bankruptcy Act of 1973--The Broken Bench Rebroken, Matthew A. Rosenstein & Robin E. Phelan;
- Woodward v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue and United States v. Hilton Hotels Corporation, Rosenstein, 27 Baylor Law Review 707 (1975);
- Homestead--Protection for the Surviving Widow?, Rosenstein 22 Baylor Law Review 409 (1970).
- As lead counsel, negotiated and collected $104+million settlement in Resolution Trust Corporation v. Craig Hall.
- Debtor's counsel in In re Reliant Exploration (a Jack Stanley Company), resulting in confirmed plan of reorganization for oil & gas exploration company.
- 1999 - Confirmed Chapter 11 case for Rene Hinojosa, Sr. where claims for sales of unregistered securities exceeded $8 million and major adversary was Texas Attorney General's Office and State Securities Board.
- 1999 - Bankruptcy Counsel for ERLY Industries, Inc., Confirmed Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization for public company with debt in excess of $60 million.
- 1998 - Successful plaintiff's settlement in Federal Court Civil Rights litigation against Corpus Christi Independent School District eliminating race as a criteria for admission to the District's Talented and Gifted Student Programs [Nova and Athena].
- 1998 - Plaintiff's jury award in State District Court for unfair employment discrimination in sexual harassment suit.
- Lead Counsel in In re I-37 Gulf Limited Partnership, 48 B.R. 647 (1985), resulting in agreement to pay client 100% in plan of reorganization. Landmark case in area of partnership chapter 11.
- 1998 - Represented attorney to obtain denial of discharge in Chapter 7 bankruptcy case against client's former law partners: See In Matter of Baker, 5th Cir. 1998), 154 F.3d 1998; 1998 U.S. App. LEXIS 24622; 33 Bankr. Ct. Dec. 342; 12 Tex. Bankr. Ct. Rep 527.
- Debtors, Creditors, Indenture Trustees, Employers, Employees, Plaintiffs & Defendants in Federal & State Business Litigation.
- Course Director - 2008 Bankruptcy Seminar; Corpus Christi Bar Association
- Course Director - 2005: One Day Survival Course---Living Under Revisions to the Bankruptcy Code and Related Statutes: Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005. Presented: "Quick Overview-Chapters 1, 3 & 5" and "Chapter 11, Including the Small Business Debtor". Sponsored by the Corpus Christi Bar Association.
- Partnership Bankruptcies, National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, Scottsdale, Arizona.
- Litigating with the Government---The Greatest Going Out of Business Sale in History, University of Texas Advanced Bankruptcy Seminar, Austin, Texas, 1993.
- Getting the "Edge" in the Art of Persuasion---Hi-Tech/Low Cost Proven Approaches to Winning With Effective Techniques in Presenting Evidence and Arguing Your Case", University of Texas Advanced Bankruptcy Seminar, November, 2000.
- Named a "Texas Super Lawyer" in the areas of Bankruptcy and Workout in the Texas Monthly Magazine and Texas Super Lawyers Magazine, October issues, 2004, 2005 & 2006. According to Texas Super Lawyers, only the top 5% of Texas lawyers receive this distinction, based on a survey of over 65,000 lawyers througout Texas.
- AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell.
- State Bar of Texas, Member, Licensed September, 1971.
- Corpus Christi Bar Association, Member.
- Resolution Trust Corporation, Bankruptcy Counsel, Headquarters, 1992-94.
- Original Founder, Reynaldo G. Garza American Inn of Court at Corpus Christi, Texas & Vice President 2000 to present.
- Leadership Corpus Christi, Class XXIV.
- Former Chair, Governmental Affairs Council, Greater Corpus Christi Business Alliance, 1995.
- Executive Board, Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra, 1999-2003, 2004- 2006, Held officer positions of Secretary and then Treasurer.
- Member, Rotary International, Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary International Foundation
- President, Coastal Bend Bankruptcy Association, 1999-2000.
- Mediation: Qualified Mediator---Attended Basic, Advanced & Family Law Mediation Training. Mediate bankruptcy adversary cases and disputes and complex commercial litigation matters.