Atty. Eric Henzy

• Eric Henzy practices in business bankruptcies and workouts and business and commercial litigation
• He has extensive experience representing debtors, creditors' committees, secured and unsecured creditors and other parties in bankruptcy cases and out-of-court workouts
• Eric's recent engagements include Johnson Memorial Hospital, et. al (counsel to the debtors in a case involving acute care hospital and nursing home)
• Reunion Industries (counsel to the debtor)
• SageCrest (counsel to the equity committee in hedge fund cases)
• American Mortgage Acceptance Company (counsel to the debtor, a REIT that invested in commercial mortgage backed securities)
• Official Equity Committee of Lancer Partners, Inc. (hedge fund)
• Handy & Harman Refining Group, Inc. and Attleboro Refining Company, Inc. (counsel to the Chapter 11 debtors, one of the largest refiners of precious metals in the world)
• SE Technologies vs
• Summit (counsel to defendant in major preference action)
• B.V
• Brooks (counsel to the Chapter 11 trustee in a case involving significant real estate assets and offshore trust)
• Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Publishers Consortium, Inc
• Executive Greetings, Inc. (counsel to the Chapter 11 debtor)
• Daticon, Inc. (official committee of unsecured creditors and special counsel to Chapter 7 trustee)
• Gulf States Steel, Inc. (counsel to indenture trustee)
• International Management Associates (counsel to several parties in interest in hedge fund case)
• Conseco, Inc. (counsel to indenture trustee)
• and BioPlexus, Inc. (counsel to the Chapter 11 debtors)
• Eric has appeared in bankruptcy courts around the country, and has represented parties in a number of the first hedge fund insolvencies in the country
• He has first chair tried more than thirty contested matters and adversary proceedings to judgment
• Prior to joining Reid and Riege, Eric practiced in the bankruptcy group at the New York firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy
• He also served as law clerk to the Honorable Alan H.W
• Shiff, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Connecticut

Professional Affiliations

- American Bankruptcy Institute - Turnaround Management Association Community Involvement and Other Pursuits: - Young People's Center for Creative Arts, Board Member Publications: - "Adding Fuel to the Fire: Second Circuit's Decision Increases the Cost of Terminating a Defined Benefit Pension Plan in Bankruptcy," Connecticut Turnaround Management Association Newsletter (June 2009) - "Offshore and 'Other Shore' Asset Protection Trusts," 32 Vanderbilt Journal of Transactional Law 739 (1999) Distinctions: - Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law - Listed in Connecticut Super Lawyers® for Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law Speaking Engagements: - "Hedge Fund Workouts and Chapter 11 Cases," American Bankruptcy Institute 15th Annual Northeast Bankruptcy Conference (July 2009) - "Market Volatility, The Credit Crisis and The Hedge Fund Industry: Selected Bankruptcy Issues," Connecticut Department of Banking Securities Forum 2008: Weathering the Economic Storm (October 2008) - "Hedge Fund Receiverships," American Bankruptcy Institute 13th Annual Northeast Bankruptcy Conference (July 2006) - "The Use of Trusts for Asset Protection," Vanderbilt University Law School Symposium on The International Trust (February 1999) - "The Effect of 11 U.S.C. § 541(c)(2) on Offshore and Other Trusts," 3rd Annual Connecticut Bankruptcy Symposium (1998)