Matthew C. Heyn

Matthew C. Heyn is a member of KTB&S.

Mr. Heyn specializes in bankruptcy litigation, business litigation, and creditors’ remedies. Mr. Heyn has a wide and varied practice, representing both plaintiffs and defendants in bankruptcy courts, federal district courts, state courts, and appellate courts. He has represented debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, and trustees in connection with bankruptcy cases, adversary proceedings, appeals, and related commercial litigation. For example, he has assisted in the representation of a special litigation trust formed in the chapter 11 cases of National Century Financial Enterprises, Inc.; the debtor in the Crescent Jewelers bankruptcy; Kaiser Group International, Inc., as appellate counsel in its bankruptcy case; a secured creditor in the bankruptcy case of Ritter Ranch; the debtor in the Peregrine Systems bankruptcy (see, e.g., In re Peregrine Sys., Inc., 319 B.R. 800 (Bankr. D. Del. 2005)); and Paramount Pictures in several million-dollar preference cases. More recently, Mr. Heyn worked on KTB&S's representation of plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Enron's former banks, which was successfully concluded. See, e.g., Enron Corp. v. Citigroup, Inc. (In re Enron Creditors Recovery Corp.), 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 20486 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 17, 2008); see Kristen Hays, “Citigroup settles in Enron case: Accord results in largest total recovered in bankruptcy,” Houston Chronicle available at www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/enron/5651797.html.

Mr. Heyn received his Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) in 2003 and was admitted to the Order of the Coif (an honor reserved for the top 10 percent of the graduating class). At Boalt Hall, Mr. Heyn received the American Jurisprudence Award (indicating the highest grade in the class) in Corporations and Commercial Transactions and the Prosser Award (indicating the second-highest grade in the class) in Real Estate Transactions and Law & Economics. At Boalt, he served on the editorial board of Ecology Law Quarterly. Mr. Heyn also graduated with honors from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2000, with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Economics. Mr. Heyn is co-author of “The Shifting Balance of Power Between Lessors and Lessees in Business Reorganization Cases: A Review of New Lease Provisions in the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005” and materials that were and will continue to be presented at several American Legal Institute-American Bankruptcy Institute seminars.