Eric is a strategic partner with Harney Partners who may act as a corporate receiver, independent director, bankruptcy trustee or plan/litigation trustee.
During his forty year legal career, Eric has handled a variety of complex litigation matters in state and federal courts in Texas–and around the country in the areas of bankruptcy, work-outs, banking, real estate/entitlement, business/commercial disputes, fiduciary matters, and securities litigation.
Eric has served as counsel to debtors, creditors, committees, litigation trusts, bankruptcy trustees, receivers, corporations and individuals in hundreds of matters, including highly controversial and high profile bet-the-company litigation. He has also served as a receiver and litigation trustee, including representation of receivers.
- Collection and exemption issues
- Intercreditor and subordination disputes
- Lender liability claims
- Lien priorities
- Plan confirmation issues in Chapters 9 and 11 (including Subchapter V)
- Adversary proceedings, including Chapter 5 avoidance and recovery issues, including preference and fraudulent transfer actions
- Discharge and discharge ability actions
- Trustee litigation
- Unsecured creditor and equity committee composition and participation
- Fee applications/employment issues
- Venue disputes
- Lease and contract acceptance /rejection
- Determinations of liens and property of the bankruptcy estate
- Equitable subordination and recharacterization
- Asset sales
- DIP Financing and priming disputes
- Substantive consolidation
- Contract disputes
- Real and personal property foreclosure issues
- Validity of debt instruments and liens
- Mechanics and materialmen’s liens and priorities
- UCC disputes and priorities
- Lender liability
- Business and media torts
- Real estate entitlement litigation
- Restrictive covenants
- Non-competition agreements
- Trade secrets and unfair competition claims
- Adverse possession of real estate
- Employment disputes
- Bank operational issues
- Collection/exemption issues – fraudulent transfer recovery
- Oil and gas disputes, including joint operating agreements, royalty, title, lien priority, and ownership disputes
- Intellectual property disputes
- Derivative and shareholder actions
- Partnership disputes
- Claims by and against probate estates and fiduciaries
- Breach of fiduciary duty and corporate negligence
- Brokerage/customer disputes
- Broker/employer disputes
- Compliance litigation