Oliver S. Zeltner

Oliver Zeltner advises corporate clients in insolvency, restructuring, distressed asset transactions, and bankruptcy across industries such as retail, energy, manufacturing, automotive, health care, aerospace, and finance. His experience includes chapter 11 cases and out-of-court restructurings, as well as mass tort matters and Detroit's historic municipal bankruptcy case. Oliver counsels on all aspects of bankruptcy, including distressed asset transactions, chapter 11 plan negotiations, fraudulent conveyance and fiduciary duty actions, automatic stay issues, environmental liability, cash collateral, and post-petition financing.

Clients include debtors and potential debtors, sellers and purchasers of distressed assets, secured creditors, critical vendors, vendors and customers of distressed counterparties, parents of insolvent subsidiaries, and avoidance action defendants. Notable representations include Boeing, American Greetings, the Cleveland Guardians, Goodyear, and a local council of the Boy Scouts of America. He also represented Alpha Natural Resources, the Old Carco (Chrysler) Liquidation Trust, Peabody Energy Corporation, and Westmoreland Resource Partners.

In addition, he has been a guest lecturer at Harvard Business School and the University of Michigan Law School. He is a member of the Houston Bar Association and the Turnaround Management Association, Houston Chapter.