Oren Haker

Oren B. Haker is a partner with Stoel Rives LLP in Portland, Ore., where he focuses on the representation of a wide range of parties in workouts, debt-restructurings, receiverships and bankruptcy cases, including corporate debtors, trade and financial creditors, creditors’ committees, lessors, and strategic and financial investors acquiring assets of troubled companies. His experience includes pre bankruptcy planning, including advising directors and officers on insolvency issues, and exploring out-of-court and non bankruptcy options in the first instance. In bankruptcy cases, Mr. Haker’s experience includescash-collateral and DIP-financing matters, intercreditor disputes, reclamation and § 503(b)(9) issues, bankruptcy sales under § 363, chapter 11 plan and post-confirmation trust formation issues, fraudulent transfer and preference litigation, and the application of the safe-harbor provisions of the Bankruptcy Code. During the 2008 financial crisis, he was a member of the legal team advising President Obama’sAuto Task Force in the General Motors, Chrysler and Delphi Automotive chapter 11 cases. More recently, he has advised Oregon municipalities on public pension matters and local nonprofits and businesses with operational and financial distress. Prior to joining the firm in 2012, Mr. Haker practiced business bankruptcy law in New York City, including with the business finance and restructuring departments ofWeil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP. He received his B.A. in history in 1996 from Rice University and his J.D. in 2003 from Columbia Law School in 2003, where he was aHarlan Fiske Stone Scholar and served on the Columbia Law Review.