Company
Wireroom is a marketplace for early settlement of litigation and bankruptcy claims, with property and foreclosure research tools built for the professionals who work those cases.
What we do
Early settlement
A structured process for parties and counsel to value and resolve disputes before discovery costs pile up.
Bankruptcy claims
A place to list, value and transfer bankruptcy claims, run by people who practice in bankruptcy court.
Property research
Property reports, area foreclosure searches and auction tracking for California real estate, built on First American DataTree data.
Founder
Matthew D. Metzger
Founder, Wireroom and Belvedere Legal, P.C. · San Mateo, California
Matthew D. Metzger is a California bankruptcy attorney and commercial litigator with nearly twenty years of practice in federal bankruptcy courts and California state courts. He founded Wireroom to bring the practical judgment of a working bankruptcy lawyer to claim valuation, early settlement and distressed-property research.
At Belvedere Legal, P.C., the San Mateo firm he founded, he focuses on commercial Chapter 11 cases (including Subchapter V) and out-of-court workouts. He has represented Chapter 11 business and individual debtors, non-institutional creditors and asset purchasers, and has served on creditors’ committees. He has litigated commercial cases at both the trial and appellate levels.
Earlier in his career he clerked for the Honorable Larry R. Weeks of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Juneau, Alaska; served as a Deputy District Attorney in San Joaquin County, trying criminal matters and civil cases under California’s Unfair Competition Law; and litigated securities, predatory-lending and consumer and investor fraud class actions at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP in Burlingame.
He speaks Spanish.
Education
- J.D., University of California, Davis, 2005
- M.A., Comparative Literature, Stanford University, 2000
- B.A., Comparative Literature, magna cum laude, Princeton University, 1994
- DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Fellow, 1998
- Fulbright Scholar, Japan, 1995
Admissions
- State Bar of California
- Alaska Bar
- U.S. District Courts, Northern, Central and Eastern Districts of California
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Professional activities
- Treasurer, Bay Area Bankruptcy Forum (2026–present)
- Bench-Bar Liaison Committee, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, N.D. Cal. (2014–2017)
- Bar Association of San Francisco, Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section
- Bar Association of San Mateo