Nathan Elner

NATE ELNER focuses his practice on all aspects of corporate restructuring, including bankruptcy court proceedings, out-of-court restructuring and workouts, and bankruptcy-related litigation. 

Prior to joining Sidley, Nathan worked as a law clerk for the Honorable Stacey G. C. Jernigan at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas.

Nate earned his J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School, and served as authorities editor for the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law.

• OYA Renewables Development LLC and seven solar community development affiliates in their Chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
• ICON Aircraft, Inc. in its filing for Chapter 11 protection in Delaware, citing more than US$170 million in debt.
• Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in connection with the recapitalization and take-private of Akumin, Inc. and its subsidiaries through a prepackaged Chapter 11 process.
• Eiger Biopharmaceuticals, Inc., a Palo Alto, California-based biopharmaceutical company that developed treatments for rare metabolic diseases, in its Chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas through three successful asset sales and a consensual plan of liquidation, resulting in the prepetition secured lender and unsecured creditors being paid in full and distributions being made to equity.
• Impel Pharmaceuticals, a commercial-stage drug developer with an emphasis on treating central nervous system conditions using a proprietary nasal drug delivery apparatus, and one of its subsidiaries in connection with their Chapter 11 cases. 
• Sunac China Holdings Limited, a Chinese property developer, in the restructuring of its US$10.2 billion of offshore debt of by way of Hong Kong scheme of arrangement.
• Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc., an innovative diagnostic testing company, in the out of court restructuring of its matured bond debt.
• Reverse Mortgage Investment Trust Inc. and certain of its subsidiaries in their Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

• State Bar of Texas, Bankruptcy Law Section
• State Bar of Texas, Consumer and Commercial Law Section