Eric M. Van Horn

Eric M. Van Horn is a partner with Spencer Fane LLP in Dallas and assists clients nationwide with all aspects of bankruptcy, reorganizations, negotiations, collection actions, multijurisdictional insolvencies and corporate liquidations. His work in complex chapter 11 and 7 bankruptcy cases has involved representing committees of unsecured creditors and investors, debtors, trustees, secured lenders, landlords and general unsecured creditors (including critical vendors and suppliers). He also defends clients against bankruptcy preference and fraudulent transfer (clawback) lawsuits, and assists clients in bidding on and acquiring assets out of bankruptcy cases. His specific industry experience includes clients in the oil and gas, manufacturing, health care, restaurant, manufacturing, retail and technology industries. Mr. Van Horn is licensed to practice before all state courts in Texas and the federal district and federal bankruptcy courts in the Northern, Southern, Western and Eastern Districts of Texas. After graduating from the University of Texas School of Law, he served as a federal judicial law clerk for now-retired Bankruptcy Judge Leif M. Clark in the Western District of Texas. During law school, he worked as a research assistant to Prof. Jay L. Westbrook, one of the world’s leading experts on chapter 11 and international bankruptcy law; interned for Hon. Frank R. Monroe (retired U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Western District of Texas); and served as an editor for the Texas International Law Journal. Mr. Van Horn is a frequent speaker and published author on a variety of business bankruptcy and creditors’ rights issues. He previously served on the State Bar of Texas’s Bankruptcy Law Section Council, and he assisted in developing and served as an instructor for the Financial Crisis & Restructuring Law course at the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business and School of Law. Mr. Van Horn received his B.A. magna cum laude from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2001 and his J.D. in 2005 from the University of Texas School of Law.