Tristan E. Manthey

Fishman Haygood Litigation Partner Tristan Manthey specializes in bankruptcy. Since 1998, his practice has concentrated on Chapter 11 reorganizations, business workouts, debt restructuring, insolvency litigation, and creditor’s rights.

Tristan is experienced in complex financial and legal matters involving numerous industries, including but not limited to, oil and gas, medical, construction, manufacturing, casinos, hotel and tourism, utilities, gaming companies, public television broadcast companies, service companies, real estate ventures, retailers, and restaurants. With this experience, he has represented debtors-in-possession, creditor committees, secured creditors, significant creditors and investors. Tristan has also represented numerous law firms and their class representative clients in high profile bankruptcy cases to protect their interests and make sure that the bankruptcy process does not adversely affect their claims against non-debtor parties.

As part of the firm's bankruptcy team, Tristan has had significant experience successfully representing creditors’ committees in Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi, including Venture, Inc., Energy XXI, Louisiana Heart Hospital, Acadiana Management Group, Petroquest Energy and Seahawk Drilling, and debtors, like Knight Energy Holdings and Harvest Oil & Gas, in major bankruptcy cases. The team has been a key participant in bankruptcy cases and workouts across the country.

Tristan led the Fishman Haygood team that provided bankruptcy counsel to the law firm Clark, Love & Hutson (“CLH”), which is a member of the Plaintiff Steering Committee representing approximately 15,000 claimants in the pending multidistrict 3M Combat Arms Earplug Products liability litigation (the largest MDL ever) at the center of the bankruptcy cases filed by Aearo Technologies LLC and six affiliated debtors on Jul. 26, 2022. On Aug. 26, 2022, after a days-long trial, the United States Bankruptcy Judge Jeffrey Graham of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Indiana - Indianapolis Division ruled in favor of CLH’s clients and similarly situated military veterans with hearing loss claims related to 3M earplugs. This was a landmark ruling that allowed the claimants to continue the multidistrict litigation against 3M, a significant victory for the claimants. As a result, 3M and the claimants have recently reached a landmark settlement of the MDL.

Tristan is a longtime member of the American Bankruptcy Institute.