Oliver S. Zeltner

Oliver Zeltner advises corporate clients in insolvency, restructuring, and bankruptcy situations across a variety of industries. Oliver's experience includes chapter 11 and out-of-court representations in the retail, energy, health care, aerospace, telecom, mining, automotive, sports, and financial services industries. He also has experience representing clients in mass tort matters, both in court and out of court, and the City of Detroit in its historic municipal bankruptcy case.

Oliver regularly counsels clients in all aspects of bankruptcy and restructuring matters, including distressed asset transactions, fraudulent conveyance, preference, and fiduciary duty actions, automatic stay issues, environmental liability, cash collateral, and post-petition financing. Oliver's clients span the spectrum of interested parties in restructuring matters, including debtors and potential debtors, secured creditors, critical vendors, parents of insolvent subsidiaries, avoidance action defendants, and sellers and purchasers of distressed assets.

Oliver has represented or is representing, among other clients: Alpha Natural Resources, American Greetings (in the Rite Aid chapter 11 cases), The Boeing Company (in a supplier's chapter 11 case), a Local Council of the Boy Scouts of America (in the BSA's chapter 11 case), the City of Detroit, the Cleveland Guardians (in the Diamond Sports Group chapter 11 cases), Old Carco Liquidation Trust (the liquidating successor to Chrysler), Peabody Energy Corporation, and Westmoreland Resource Partners.

Oliver has guest lectured at Harvard Business School and the University of Michigan Law School. He serves on the board of directors of Stella Maris, a nonprofit provider of addiction treatment and recovery services.