Matthew Linder

Matthew E. Linder

Partner, Chicago
Matthew E. Linder
Matthew Linder

Matthew E. Linder

Partner, Chicago
Matthew E. Linder

He is a powerhouse; he is strategic and knows his way around liability management and bankruptcy issues.

Chambers USA 2026

Biography

Matt Linder is a partner in the Firm's Financial Restructuring and Insolvency Practice based in the Chicago office. Matt represents public and private companies, investors and other parties in complex business reorganizations and other special situations, including traditional, prearranged and prepackaged chapter 11 cases, mass-tort bankruptcy proceedings, out-of-court restructurings and acquisitions of distressed companies. He has advised clients in various market sectors, including automotive, energy, financials, healthcare, industrials, mining, non-profit, pharmaceuticals, retail, railroads and telecommunications.

Experience

Company Representations*

  • Optimum Communications, Inc. and its subsidiaries on their internal reorganization, the private placement and exchange of preferred equity issued by CSC Investments II LLC, Optimum’s newly formed subsidiary that holds its Optimum East Cable and Lightpath assets, and the subsidiary’s concurrent cash tender offer to public stockholders.
  • EchoStar Corporation, DISH Network Corporation and their pay-TV subsidiary, DISH DBS Corporation, on their $15 billion balance sheet optimization transaction.
  • EchoStar Corporation on its $21.6 billion sales of AWS-4, H-block, and unpaired AWS-3 spectrum licenses to SpaceX.
  • EchoStar Corporation on its $23 billion sale of 3.45 GHz and 600 MHz spectrum licenses to AT&T.
  • Boy Scouts of America in its chapter 11 case and related appeals.
  • Johnson & Johnson on the restructuring of cosmetic talc claims and in related litigation.
  • 3M Company on the comprehensive resolution of the Combat Arms Earplugs multidistrict litigation.
  • The Joint Official Liquidators appointed by The Supreme Court of The Bahamas to carry out the winding up of FTX Digital Markets Ltd., a subsidiary of FTX Trading Ltd., in its chapter 15 case.
  • Mattress Firm, Inc. in its prepackaged chapter 11 case.
  • HCR ManorCare, Inc. in its prepackaged chapter 11 case.
  • UCI International LLC in its chapter 11 case.
  • LDK Solar Co., Ltd. in its chapter 15 and related chapter 11 cases.
  • Rodeo Creek Gold Inc. in its chapter 11 case.
  • Murray Holdings Ltd. in its chapter 15 case.
  • Tribune Company in its chapter 11 case.
  • Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation in its chapter 11 case.

Strategic Investor Representations*

  • New Residential Investment Corp., a publicly traded REIT managed by an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group, in its $1.2 billion acquisition of the forward mortgage servicing business of Ditech Holding Corporation.
  • Central Maine & Quebec Railway, a subsidiary of Fortress Investment Group, in its acquisition of the assets of Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, Ltd.
  • Fairway Resources Partners III, LLC a portfolio company of Denham Capital Management LP, in its acquisition from Samson Resources Corp. of oil and gas properties in the central Anadarko basin of Texas and Oklahoma.
  • Wanxiang America in its acquisition of the assets of Fisker Automotive and A123 Systems.

* Certain representative matters were prior to joining White & Case.

Clerk & Government Experience

Judicial Intern, Honorable Amy J. St. Eve, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Illinois
US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
US Supreme Court
JD
Cornell Law School
BA
Northwestern University
English

Up and Coming, Bankruptcy/Restructuring
Chambers USA 2026

"Matt is just a superb lawyer; he maintains a very even keel even in the most pressurized situations."

"Matt takes the time to understand how complex and technical issues impact the business and provides practical solutions."

Chambers USA 2026

Panelist, “The Rise of Strategic Chapter 11s: Distinguishing Reorganization from Litigation Tactics in Mass Torts,” 2026 Southern District of Texas Bankruptcy Bench Bar Conference (April 2026)

Panelist, "Mass Torts Inferno: New Battle Lines in the Resolution Debate," Cornell Law Review Symposium (September 2024)

Panelist, "Implications from the United States Supreme Court's Rulings in Purdue Pharma and Kaiser Gypsum on Mass-Tort Insurance Coverage," International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (April 2024)

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