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Mission - Gary F. Seitz, US Bankruptcy Trustee 

This website was created to serve as an online resource for debtors, counsel for debtors, creditors, asset buyers and any other parties in interest for bankruptcy cases where I am the Chapter 7 Trustee. Included are guidelines and instructions to guide you through the process and also forms you can download for your convenience.

Gary F. Seitz, United States Bankruptcy Trustee 

901 Market St., Suite 3020

Philadelphia, PA 19107 

Phone: (215) 238-0011 

Fax: (215) 238-0016 

Email: [email protected] - please include the case number and last name of debtor in the subject line of all email messages.

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Trustee Background

Please note that the chapter 7 trustee is not employed by the Bankruptcy Court or the Office of the U.S. Trustee.  The trustee, Bankruptcy Court, and Office of the U.S. Trustee may all require or request information or documents from debtors.  Please send documents to the party requesting those documents.  

Gary F. Seitz is an attorney who 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.

Presentations and Publications include:

Speaker and author, Creditor Rights Issues for Transportation Companies, Transportation Lawyers Association Conference, May 2013

Panelist, Principles of Bankruptcy Law for Non-Bankruptcy Litigators: Practice Tips and Pitfalls for the Unwary, Philadelphia Bar Association roundtable, December 2012

Speaker, Will You Crap Out With Pockets Empty? Getting Paid: Freight Charges, Lien Rights and Insolvent Bankrupt Entities in the Transportation Continuum, Transportation Lawyers Association Conference, May 2011

Transportation Creditor 10-Point Bankruptcy Checklist, Rawle’s Reports, Vol. 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