Matt Weiss helps creditors successfully navigate bankruptcy and restructuring matters, with a focus on creditors’ rights and insolvency-related litigation in bankruptcy, federal and state courts. His experience includes all phases of Chapter 7 and 11 bankruptcies, representing secured and unsecured creditors as well as debtors and other parties-in-interest. With years of deep experience spanning the nuanced details of statutory interpretation to the most sophisticated strategies for companies facing financial distress, Matt guides his clients to the best legal and business outcomes for their situation.

Matt has represented creditors in foreclosure confirmation proceedings, suits on notes and guarantees—in amounts exceeding $25 million—and equitable receivership proceedings in state and federal court. Matt’s clients also call on him to assist with related commercial litigation such as the defense of fiduciaries and trustees as well as contract disputes. Matt’s litigation experience further extends to government-related litigation such as bid protests and zoning appeals and he has assisted with internal investigations related to federal regulatory compliance issues.

  • Litigated multiple suits on notes and guarantees to judgment in amounts exceeding $25 million.*
  • Represented interests of assignee of secured lender to enforce rights against borrower and guarantors of loan portfolio that included multiple foreclosure confirmations and two separate suits on notes and guarantees in Georgia courts.*
  • Successfully objected to procedures for 363 sale in Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware on behalf of official committee of unsecured creditors.*
  • Successfully represented interests of judgment creditor in SEC receivership proceeding over period of seven years to ensure pro rata distribution of receivership estate proceeds with noteholders and other creditors.*
  • Successfully challenged ante litem notice before Georgia Court of Appeals on issue of first impression.*

*Denotes experience prior to joining Parker Hudson.

  • Co-Author, "Extent of State's Power at Issue in Nonprofit Hospital's Asset Sale," Journal of Corporate Renewal (Vol. 30), March 2017
  • Co-Author, “Chapter 11 Interest Rates After Till”, American Bankruptcy Law Journal, Spring 2010
  • “Where Do We Draw the Line?: The Justiciability of Political Gerrymandering Claims in Light of League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry”, Georgia Law Review, Spring 2007

  • Financial Services
  • Appellate Litigation
  • Bankruptcy & Creditor Rights
  • Commercial Disputes
  • Fiduciary Litigation
  • Professional Liability
  • Real Estate Litigation
  • Restructuring & Bankruptcy

  • University of Georgia School of Law (J.D., 2008); Georgia Law Review, Executive Notes Editor
  • University of Georgia (B.S., Political Science, 2005)

  • Selected as a Georgia Super Lawyers "Rising Star" in Bankruptcy by Law & Politics Media and Atlanta Magazine (2015-2020) (top 2.5% of attorneys in Georgia 40 years old or younger or in practice 10 years or less)
  • Selected as one of Georgia's "Legal Elite" for Bankruptcy/Creditors' Rights by Georgia Trend Magazine (2016)
  • Selected as one of Atlanta Jewish Times' "40 Under 40" (2017)

  • Global Co-Chair, American Jewish Committee, ACCESS (Young Professionals Committee)
  • Past Chair, American Constitution Society, Georgia Lawyers Chapter
  • Past President, Red Clay Democrats
  • Member, Atlanta Bar Association
  • LEAD Atlanta, Class of 2013
  • Leadership Buckhead, Class of 2016
  • Outstanding Atlanta, Class of 2016
  • Anti-Defamation League, Glass Leadership Institute
  • State Bar of Georgia, Young Lawyers Division Leadership Academy

  • State of Georgia
  • Georgia Court of Appeals
  • Supreme Court of Georgia
  • Northern District of Georgia
  • Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals

  • The Honorable Marvin H. Shoob, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division

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