Eric Goldstein is Co-Chair of the firm's Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights Practice Group. Eric represents all types of creditors in bankruptcy cases and insolvency proceedings in courts throughout the United States. His clients include financial institutions, insurance companies, lessors, franchisors, special servicers, educational institutions, health care businesses, as well as trade creditors and suppliers. Eric serves as lead national or regional bankruptcy counsel for a variety of businesses.
Before a bankruptcy case is filed, Eric actively advises clients on workouts and out-of-court restructuring, as well as on the impact of bankruptcy and insolvency laws when a customer, supplier, counterparty, or other business entity may be experiencing financial distress. Once a bankruptcy filing occurs, Eric represent clients in every aspect of bankruptcy cases, including filing claims, debtor-in-possession lending, negotiating plans of reorganization, asset sales, and a diverse array of bankruptcy litigation matters.
In addition to Eric’s bankruptcy practice, he also represent clients in complex commercial litigation matters in state and federal court. These types of claims involve a wide variety of issues, including financial disputes, breach of contract, business torts, commercial debt collection, UCC-related disputes, and commercial foreclosures.
Before joining Shipman & Goodwin LLP, Eric served as law clerk to the Honorable Christine S. Vertefeuille for the Supreme Court for the State of Connecticut.
- Listed as a Connecticut Super Lawyer Rising Star®: Bankruptcy (2013-2014); Creditor Debtor Rights (2015-2016)
- National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges: Next Generation (2012)
- New Leader in the Law, Connecticut Law Tribune (2014)
- Connecticut Law Review, Executive Editor
- American Bar Association
- Connecticut Bar Association: Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section
- American Bankruptcy Institute
- Greater Hartford Arts Council; Board Member
Obtained Judgment Denying Discharge and Assisted in Obtaining Multi-Million Dollar Judgments
In re Jie Xiao; In re LXEng, LLC (Bankr. D. Conn. 2019) - Represented unsecured creditor in investigating pre-bankruptcy asset transfers of individual and his closely held company, which both filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. The investigation uncovered that substantially all of the individual debtor’s non-exempt assets were transferred to his former spouse on the eve of bankruptcy as part of a consensual property settlement in their divorce and, in the years prior to the bankruptcy filing, the closely held company had transferred more than $1.5 million to his former spouse. We thereafter successfully obtained a judgment denying the individual debtor’s discharge of his pre-petition debts under Section 727(a)(2)(A) of the Bankruptcy Code due to the fraudulent transfers on the eve of bankruptcy, and assisted the Chapter 7 Trustees of the debtors’ bankruptcy estates in successfully prosecuting fraudulent transfer actions against the former spouse in the approximate amount of $2.5 million.