Practice Focus
About
Tristan Manthey focuses his practice on bankruptcy and insolvency matters. Since 1998, he has handled chapter 11 reorganizations, business workouts, debt restructurings, insolvency litigation, and creditor rights.
“Tristan is a great in-court lawyer with strong instincts on how to maximize the client’s chances of winning.” —Bankruptcy and Restructuring Client, Chambers and Partners
Tristan is experienced in complex financial and legal matters involving numerous industries, including but not limited to, oil and gas, medical, construction, manufacturing, 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.
Experience
Debtors in Possession
- Chapter 11 bankruptcy counsel to Atlantic Natural Foods, LLC, a plant-based food company (Eastern District of Louisiana).
- Chapter 11 bankruptcy counsel to Plaquemine Bayou Parke, L.L.C. and Kimble Development of Baton Rouge I, L.L.C., and River Mill, LLC, commercial real estate properties (Middle District of Louisiana).
- Chapter 11 bankruptcy counsel to Knight Energy Holdings, LLC and related affiliates, an oil service company (Western District of Louisiana).
- Chapter 11 bankruptcy counsel to Saratoga Resources, Inc., a publicly-traded independent oil and gas producer operating 105 wells in the state of Louisiana (Western District of Louisiana).
- Chapter 11 bankruptcy counsel to Colonial Golf and Country Club, Inc., a privately held country club in Harahan, Louisiana (Eastern District of Louisiana).
- Chapter 11 bankruptcy counsel to AHNO, Inc. d/b/a as Ambassador Hotel, a hotel located in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana (Eastern District of Louisiana).
Professional Activities & Community Involvement
- American Bankruptcy Institute, Member
- Federal Bar Association – Bankruptcy Section, Former Board Member
- Fore!Kids Foundation, Member
- Louisiana State Bar Association, Former House of Delegates Member
- Louisiana State Bar Association – Bankruptcy Section, Former Chairman
Recognitions
- Chambers USA: Band 1, Bankruptcy/Restructuring, since 2011
- The Best Lawyers® in America: Banking & Finance Law; Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights/Insolvency & Reorganization Law; Commercial Litigation; Litigation – Bankruptcy, since 2019
- Best Lawyers®: “Lawyer of the Year,” Litigation - Bankruptcy, New Orleans, 2021
- Lawdragon: 500 Leading Global Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers, 2023-2026
- Super Lawyers: Top 50 Louisiana Lawyers, 2019-2023, 2025, 2026
- Super Lawyers: Top 50 New Orleans Lawyers, 2019-2023, 2025, 2026
- Super Lawyers: Bankruptcy, Business Litigation, since 2010
- Inside New Orleans: Readers' Favorite Elite Lawyers, Banking and Financial Law, 2025
- New Orleans Magazine: Top Lawyers, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, 2023-2025
- New Orleans CityBusiness: Leader in Law, 2018
Media
- Author, “Recent Developments,” Bankruptcy Section, Louisiana Bar Journal
- Speaker, “So the Defendant Filed for Bankruptcy, Now What?” Academy of New Orleans Trial Lawyers CLE, Sept. 18, 2024.
- Speaker, “Recent Developments Under the Almost New Bankruptcy Law: A View From the Bench and the Bar;” “Bankruptcy after the 3 Disasters – Katrina, Rita and the Bankruptcy Reform Act;” “Landlord-Tenant Law in Louisiana;” and “Bankruptcy Law and Practice in Louisiana.”
Credentials
- J.D., cum laude, from Loyola University School of Law, 1996
- Louisiana
- Texas
- Mississippi
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Louisiana
- U.S. District Court for the Northern, Southern, and Eastern Districts of Texas
- U.S. Tax Court




