Mr. Matthew P. Ward

Matthew P. Ward is the leader of Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP?s Bankruptcy, Restructuring, and Creditors? Rights practice team, the office managing partner for the firm?s Wilmington, Del., office, and a member of the firm?s Management Committee. He has experience serving as primary counsel for numerous public and private companies, guiding them through all aspects of complex chapter 11 and 7 proceedings, assignments for the benefit of creditors, or reorganizations out of court. He has also regularly represented official committees of unsecured creditors as lead counsel. Mr. Ward?s experience includes work for numerous private companies, money-management firms and private-equity funds as bidders/purchasers in bankruptcy proceedings, acquisitions of distressed assets and change-of-control transactions. He also has represented numerous public and private companies, hedge funds and govern- mental entities as creditors or other stakeholders in litigation. Mr. Ward is one of only seven attorneys in the State of Delaware certified by the American Board of Certification in Business Bankruptcy Law, and he has consistently been listed in Chambers USA for bankruptcy matters. He has been a frequent presenter on a variety of bankruptcy law topics, and the Delaware State Bar Association chose him as the statewide winner of the DSBA Community Service Award based on his demonstrated commitment to leadership and service in activities that enrich and strengthen the community over a substantial period of time. The National Diversity Council also presented him with the Leadership Excellence in the Law award based on his dedication to racial integration and providing opportunities to racial minorities. Mr. Ward received his B.A. magna cum laude from Ohio Wesleyan University and his J.D. magna cum laude from Washington and Lee University School of Law, where he was senior articles editor of the Washing- ton and Lee Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif.