Ms. Sherilyn A. Olsen

Sherilyn A. Olsen is a partner with Holland & Hart LLP in Salt Lake City, where her practice includes advising lenders and borrowers regarding loan workouts and restructuring, collection procedures, and bankruptcy law and procedure. She also assists lenders in seeking the appointment of a receiver to protect assets and/or to operate a business?s pending foreclosure. Ms. Olsen negotiates and drafts loan-modification documents and pursues the repayment of loans in default. In bankruptcy court, she prosecutes and defends relief-from-stay motions, cash-collateral motions, claim objections, motions to dismiss, preference and fraudulent transfer actions, lien-avoidance actions and nondischarageability claims. In state and federal courts, she represents clients throughout the litigation process including managing discovery, defending and taking fact and expert depositions, drafting and arguing motions for summary judgment, pursuing and defending motions for temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions, chairing trials and pursuing the collection of judgments. Ms. Olsen was recognized in Forty Under 40 in Utah Business Magazine for 2014 and has been identified in Mountain States Super Lawyers as a ?Rising Star? in the category of Bankruptcy: Business and Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights from 2008-12. She also has been voted by her peers as one of Utah?s ?Legal Elite? in Utah Business Magazine from 2007-19, and she was listed in The Best Lawyers in America for Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law from 2020-22 and Commercial Finance Law from 2021-22. Ms. Olsen received her B.A. in political science in 1998 from Brigham Young University and her J.D. magna cum laude in 2002 from Brigham Young University?s J. Reuben Clark Law School, where she served on the BYU Law Review