Carl E. Black

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 Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and 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.