Carl E. Black

Jones Day

Cleveland, OH

Partner

Carl E. Black is a Partner with Jones Day out of the Cleveland, OH office.  Carl Black has played a leading role in Jones Day's representations of debtors and potential debtors, creditors' committees, contract counterparties, equity sponsors, and other significant creditors in many of the nation's largest in-court and out-of-court corporate restructurings. He has substantial experience counseling clients in corporate governance, fraudulent conveyance, illegal dividend, fiduciary duty, piercing the corporate veil, and mass tort, environmental, and legacy liability issues. He also has represented a number of entities in the structuring and consummation of spin-offs, secured financings, distressed sales and acquisitions, and ring-fencing transactions.

Representative chapter 11 debtor cases include: Alpha Natural Resources, American Apparel, Burlington Industries, Chrysler LLC, Dana Corporation, Lehman Brothers (special counsel to the debtors), LTV Steel Company, M&G Chemicals, Inc., NII Holdings, Oglebay Norton Company, St. Mary's of the Woods, and Transtar Industries. Other representations include Hilite International in its cross-border out-of-court restructuring and secured creditors of Syncreon International Group in an English scheme of arrangement.

Carl is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, the American Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, and the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association. He also serves as a director of the Cleveland Zoo Society.

 

EDUCATION

  • The Ohio State University (J.D. cum laude 1998; Order of the Coif);
  • Ohio University (B.S.Ed. cum laude 1989)

BAR & COURT ADMISSIONS

  • Ohio

HONORS & DISTINCTIONS

  • Chambers USA: Bankruptcy/Restructuring in Ohio (2010-2019)
  • The Best Lawyers in America: Cleveland, Ohio; Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law (2010-2021), "Lawyer of the Year" (2020); Litigation — Bankruptcy (2011-2021), "Lawyer of the Year" (2015, 2018, 2021)
  • Lawdragon 500 Leading U.S. Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers (2020)

 

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