Mr. Oren B. Haker

Oren B. Haker is a partner in the Corporate group of Stoel Rives LLP in Portland, Ore., where he fo- cuses on financial restructuring and business reorganizations, as well as complex commercial disputes. He represents secured lenders, bondholders and trade creditors in both in-court and out-of-court restruc- turings, strategic investors in distressed companies, chapter 11 debtors, unsecured creditors' committees, acquirers of assets in chapter 11 proceedings and liquidating trustees. Mr. Haker's experience includes all aspects of the bankruptcy process, including cash collateral disputes, intercreditor disputes, ¤ 363 as- set sales, reclamation and ¤ 503(b)(9) issues, ¤ 524(g) asbestos trusts, chapter 11 plan and post-effective date trust formulation, contested plan confirmation, claims resolution, and fraudulent conveyance and preference litigation. He has also advised officers and directors on fiduciary duties and zone of insol- vency issues. Mr. Haker has represented clients in the agricultural, automotive, airline, health care, en- ergy, gaming, telecommunications, media, banking, financial services and real estate industries. Prior to joining the firm, he practiced law in the financial restructuring departments at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP and Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, and with the corporate insolvency group at Milberg LLP. Mr. Haker is listed in Oregon Super Lawyers for 2014 and is an adjunct professor of law in bankruptcy at the University of Washington School of Law Columbia Law School. He is admitted to practice in Or- egon, New York and Washington. Mr. Haker 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 a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and served on the Columbia Law Review.