Matthew Goldman has functioned as lead counsel for debtors, trustees, creditors' committees and purchasers in the bankruptcy, restructure, and liquidation of large and middle-market companies across the country. He has had extensive experience in steel, automotive, retail, real estate, health care, finance, and communications bankruptcies and restructures. He has appeared in most major bankruptcy cases of the past three decades.
Mr. Goldman is also an active leader in efforts to reform and advance the bankruptcy profession. He was a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute's Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11, as Reporter for its Committee on Administrative Claims. Mr. Goldman was responsible for the expansion of the William J. O'Neill Bankruptcy Institute into a regional seminar of national repute. For eight years, he chaired the O'Neill Advisory Committee and was a member of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association's Executive Committee. For five years, he was an officer of the Bankruptcy Section of the Bar. He was the Section Chair in 2006 and 2007. Mr. Goldman continues to help organize the O'Neill Bankruptcy Institute. He is ranked in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business. He is also listed in The Best Lawyers in America©, and holds an AV-Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell. From 1988 through 1991, Mr. Goldman was co-annotator, with Jerry Patchan, of Clark Boardman's Federal Rules of Bankruptcy.