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GARY F. SEITZ
Partner
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


Phone:   (215) 575-4330
Fax:   (215) 563-2583
Email:   gseitz@rawle.com


Additional Offices

Wilmington, Delaware

Phone:   (302) 778-1200
Fax:   (302) 778-1400


Gary F. Seitz is a Partner in the Firm’s Philadelphia office. He concentrates his practice in the areas of commercial bankruptcy, commercial litigation and admiralty and maritime law. Gary serves as a Chapter 7 Panel Trustee in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and acts as Trustee in Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 cases in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the District of Delaware. He has extensive experience handling bankruptcy matters for creditors, asset purchasers and trustees. Gary also has expertise in admiralty and maritime litigation and transactions with particular emphasis on marine financing and vessel foreclosures.

Gary is admitted to practice in Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third and Fifth Circuits and the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Pennsylvania, the District of New Jersey and the District of Delaware.

Gary graduated magna cum laude from Buena Vista University in 1983 and from the University of Iowa College of Law in 1986. He obtained his Master's degree in Admiralty Law from Tulane University in 1988. In the course of obtaining his law degree, Gary studied at the Shanghai Law Research Institute in the Peoples Republic of China and at the Bentham House Faculty of Laws of the University of London.

He has obtained the designation of "Proctor in Admiralty" from the Maritime Law Association of the United States. He is a member of the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Bankruptcy Conference, and the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and American Bar Associations. He is a member of the Philadelphia Maritime Association and the Transportation Lawyers Association.


Bankruptcy and Business Finance
Commercial Bankruptcy
Maritime
Commercial Litigation and Transaction



Iowa
Louisiana
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Washington
Delaware


United States District Court for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Pennsylvania
United States District Court for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Louisiana
United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
United States Court of Appeals for the Third and Fifth Circuits
United States District Court for the District of Delaware


Tulane University (LL.M., Admiralty, 1988)
University of Iowa College of Law (J.D., 1986)
Buena Vista University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1983)


Transportation Lawyers Association
Delaware State Bar Association
Iowa State Bar Association
Louisiana State Bar Association
New Jersey State Bar Association
Pennsylvania Bar Association
Washington State Bar Association
National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees
Eastern District of Pennsylvania Bankruptcy Conference
American Bar Association
Member, Sections on: Business Law; Litigation

Maritime Law Association of the United States
"Proctor in Admiralty" Designation



Transportation Creditor 10-Point Bankruptcy Checklist, Rawle’s Report Volume 11, Issue 2

Lecturer, Ethical Considerations when the Client is in the Zone of Insolvency and In Bringing Deepening Insolvency Claims, Delaware Bankruptcy American Inns of Court CLE Seminar, February, 2007

Lecturer, Fundamentals of Civil Litigation, Delaware State Bar Association CLE Seminar, Wilmington, September, 2006