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College: Creighton University
Law School: Southern Methodist University
Admitted to the State Bar of Texas in: 1985
Practice Area(s):
Insolvency and Creditor RightsProfile:
Mr. Coleman, a founding director of the Firm, chairs the Insolvency & Creditor Rights Section. He has substantial experience representing committees, suppliers, trade associations, financial institutions, real estate companies, trustees, examiners and debtors in a wide array of Chapter 11 litigation and other insolvency matters.
Scope of Practice:
Pre-bankruptcy workouts and restructurings, reorganization proceedings, adversary proceedings and virtually all aspects of bankruptcy and insolvency issues and related litigation.
Recent Honors:
Named by peers among the best bankruptcy lawyers in America. Listed in Best Lawyers in America, 10th ed. (2003-2006), as published in Corporate Counsel Magazine, January 2003; recognized as one of Texas' "Super Lawyers" by Texas Lawyer Magazine.
Recent Representations:
Represented a Public Equity Fund in bankruptcy litigation involving intellectual property and attempted recharacterization of debt as equity.
Represented the Republic of Guyana in contested confirmation litigation.
Over the past eight years, has represented 24 unsecured creditors' committees in 12 different states.
Represented a Fortune 500 company in the acquisition of an international service firm in bankruptcy.
Official Unsecured Creditors' Committee in a transportation industry bankruptcy comprised of 28 affiliated, publicly traded debtors, over $75,000,000 in debt represented, pending in the Southern District of Texas.
Debtor, a publicly traded roll-up of thirteen entities, resulting in the sale of thirteen separate companies in a 120-day period; Dallas, Texas.
Official Unsecured Creditors' Committee for a national HLTV lender, reported as one of the ten largest bankruptcies in that year. Committee members included Fox Sports, CBS Sports, TNT and Dan Marino; Northern District of Texas.
Served as counsel for defendants in a $15,000,000 preferential transfer and anti-trust lawsuit in Delaware, resulting in a settlement of less than 5% of amounts sought by plaintiff.
Official Unsecured Creditors' Committee, owed an aggregate of over $75,000,000 in 200+ store retail bankruptcy; Central District of California.
Successfully represented a leading national golf products manufacturer in injunction proceedings in bankruptcy court in Augusta, Georgia.
Official Unsecured Creditors' Committee and related officer and director litigation in the bankruptcy of a publicly traded distribution company located in Santa Barbara, California.
Litigation arising from warehouse distributor's bankruptcy, including LBO/Fraudulent conveyance litigation against lender and breach of fiduciary duty causes of action against former owners, Northern District of Illinois.
Professional Affiliations:
College of the State Bar of Texas, Dallas Bar Association, Corporate Reorganization, Creditor Rights Section, Dallas County Bar Association's Bankruptcy and Business Litigation Sections, Business Law Section of the State Bar of Texas, Bankruptcy Reorganization Committee, American Bankruptcy Institute and Texas Association of Bank Counsel.
Admissions:
State Bar of Texas; United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; United States District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas.
Publications:
Frequent author and speaker on bankruptcy and creditors' rights issues, including publications by Mathew Bender, Callaghan and the Uniform Commercial Code Law Journal
Community Activities:
Trustee of the Catholic Foundation; Founding Board member, Center of Thomas Moore Studies, University of Dallas; Chairman, Rev. Richard J. Hauser Scholarship Fund; Board Member, Dad's Club, Ursuline High School; coached in excess of 25 youth sports teams.
Education:
Southern Methodist University School of Law, J.D., May 1985; Editor, Southwestern Law Journal; member of Phi Delta Phi; Creighton University, B.S.B.A., 1982; Solon E. Summerfield Scholar; member of the accounting honor society Beta Alpha Psi. |
