Stephen M. Pezanosky, Esq.

Stephen M. Pezanosky is a partner with Haynes and Boone, LLP in Fort Worth and Dallas, and since 1991 has practiced in the areas of corporate bankruptcy, corporate reorganizations and commercial liti- gation. His experience ranges from representing public and private companies as debtors in possession in national chapter 11 bankruptcy cases to defending national banks in federal and state court fraud suits. He has also successfully represented buyers and sellers of distressed companies, secured lenders and secured lender groups, factoring companies and unsecured creditors in bankruptcy court. Among his representations, Mr. Pezanosky represented the acquirer of a publicly traded oil and gas company in a chapter 11 case involving multiple offshore platforms and properties, as well as a privately held manufacturer of fiber-optic components in its $500 million sale to a Fortune 100 company. He is admit- ted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the Texas Supreme Court, the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas, and the U.S. Bankruptcy Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas. Mr. Pezanosky is a member of the American, Texas, Dallas and Fort Worth Bar Associations, ABI and the John C. Ford Inn of Courts, and he has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America for Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Litigation Bankruptcy (2005-07, 2009-15), as one of the "Best Lawyers in Dallas" by D Magazine for 2015, and in Chambers USA for Bankruptcy/ Restructuring in Texas since 2010. He is rated AV-Preeminent by Martindale Hubbell. Mr. Pezanosky received his B.A. cum laude from Texas Tech University in 1988 and his J.D. cum laude from Texas Tech University School of Law in 1991, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and was a note editor for the Texas Tech Law Review.