Eric Henzy is a shareholder and partner at Zeisler & Zeisler. He has extensive experience representing debtors, creditors' committees, secured and unsecured creditors and other parties in bankruptcy cases and out-of-court workouts.
Eric has appeared in bankruptcy courts around the country and has represented parties in a number of the first hedge fund insolvencies in the country. He has first-chair tried more than thirty contested matters and adversary proceedings to judgment.
Prior to joining Z&Z, Eric practiced in the bankruptcy group at Reid and Riege, P.C. in Hartford; and previously, at the New York firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy. He also served as law clerk to The Honorable Alan H. W. Shiff, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Connecticut.
In 2018, Eric accepted an invitation to become a James T. Cooper Lifetime Fellow. The Fellows is a collection of the State's most outstanding lawyers, judges and teachers who devote their time and talent to sponsoring programs that address matters concerning the legal profession, the administration of justice, and the rule of law in society.
Alternative Dispute Resolution: Arbitration and Mediation
Publications & Presentations
"Adding Fuel to the Fire: Second Circuit's Decision Increases the Cost of Terminating a Defined Benefit Pension Plan in Bankruptcy," Connecticut Turnaround Management Association Newsletter (June 2009)
"Hedge Fund Workouts and Chapter 11 Cases," American Bankruptcy Institute 15th Annual Northeast Bankruptcy Conference (July 2009)
"Market Volatility, The Credit Crisis and The Hedge Fund Industry: Selected Bankruptcy Issues," Connecticut Department of Banking Securities Forum 2008: Weathering the Economic Storm (October 2008)
"Hedge Fund Receiverships," American Bankruptcy Institute 13th Annual Northeast Bankruptcy Conference (July 2006)
"Offshore and 'Other Shore' Asset Protection Trusts," 32 Vanderbilt Journal of Transactional Law 739 (1999)
"The Use of Trusts for Asset Protection," Vanderbilt University Law School Symposium on The International Trust (February 1999)
"The Effect of 11 U.S.C. § 541(c)(2) on Offshore and Other Trusts," 3rd Annual Connecticut Bankruptcy Symposium (1998)