John helps sophisticated investors in distressed credit formulate and execute complex strategies involving mergers and acquisitions, financing and litigation in and outside of actual bankruptcy. He represents official creditors’ committees in complex corporate chapter 11 cases, and corporate debtors in connection with formal bankruptcy proceedings and informal negotiations to restructure their debt obligations.
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Honors & Awards
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet was without sin. Hebrews 4:15 NIV
Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me. Revelation 3:20 NIV
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Representative Matters
Caesars Entertainment Corporation (ad hoc group of first lien lenders)
Dana Corporation (ad hoc committee of noteholders)
Dayton Superior (official creditors’ committee)
Diebold Nixdorf (debt finance provider)
Fairpoint Communications (ad hoc committee of noteholders)
Harry & David (ad hoc committee of noteholders)
IAC/InterActiveCorp (ad hoc committee of noteholders)
Indiana Downs/Indiana Live! (ad hoc committee of noteholders)
Intermet Corporation (ad hoc committee of noteholders)
Interstate Bakeries (largest shareholder)
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Admitted To Practice
New York , 2020
U.S. Supreme Court , 2019
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Education
Penn State, J.D., cum laude, 2024
Florida State University, B.S., Economics, cum laude, 2020 This is other information
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