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Jonathan Friedland is a partner in Sugar Felsenthal Grais & Helsinger LLP’s Chicago office. He is ranked AV® Preeminent™ by Martindale.com, has been repeatedly recognized as a “SuperLawyer”, by Leading Lawyers Magazine, is rated 10/10 by AVVO, and has received numerous other accolades. He has been profiled, interviewed, and/or quoted in publications such as Buyouts Magazine; Smart Business Magazine; The M&A Journal; Inside Counsel; LAW360; Business Week.com; Dow Jones LBO Wire; and The Daily Deal. Jonathan graduated from the State University of New York at Albany, magna cum laude, in 1991 (after three years of study) and from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1994. Click here to see his full biography.
Articles by Jonathan Friedland
Valuation: The Pillar of Corporate Restructuring
Bankruptcy Valuation Valuation—the estimation of an entity’s worth—plays a crucial role in all stages of a commercial bankruptcy, as well in any out-of-court restructuring.¹ Valuation can be critical at the beginning of a bankruptcy case in determining whether the debtor can use cash collateral or obtain debtor-in-possession financing. At the confirmation stage, valuation plays a […]
Dealing with Distress for Fun & Profit— Installment #18—How to Confirm a Chapter 11 Plan
A written tour of business bankruptcy and its alternatives. This is the latest in the series, Dealing with Distress for Fun & Profit, which you can read from the beginning if you like. In this bat-installment, we turn to what is, theoretically, one of the most important parts of any chapter 11 case: confirming a […]
Corporate Restructuring 2017: Why Some Attorneys See Rising Rates, but Most Don’t
THE CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING profession has become, much like the broader economy, increasingly a world of few “haves” and many “have nots.” This is not by accident, and it is not going away. Those who see and accept the industry for what it is—and pivot accordingly—will continue to be winners. Those who possess a limited repertoire […]
Dealing With Distress For Fun & Profit – Installment #13 – The Priority Scheme of Bankruptcy
A written tour of business bankruptcy and its alternatives We started this series (click here to start reading from the beginning) with a broad overview of business bankruptcy but our last several installments have focused on one small, albeit important, aspect- the automatic stay. We’ve heard from a number of readers that they would like […]
The Myth of the Newspaper Being a Commercially Reasonable Notice
Editor’s Note: the August edition of The Bankruptcy Strategist and the September edition of the Equipment Leasing Newsletter, each ran a substantially similar article by the authors. We are pleased to run this version here. You represent a secured lender. You are to assist your client in its exercise of rights under UCC §9-610 to sell its […]
Dealing With Distress For Fun & Profit – Installment #12 – Stay Relief Strategy?
A written tour of business bankruptcy and its alternatives Editors’ Note: If you are a regular reader of this column, you will know that this is the third installment in a row about the automatic stay (it is a big topic and we didn’t want to lay too much on you at once). If you’re […]
Dealing With Distress For Fun & Profit – Installment #11 – Is Stay Relief Necessary?
A written tour of business bankruptcy and its alternatives Our most recent installment in this series gives an overview of the automatic stay. In this installment we dive a little deeper, and we start with this question: how do you know when a contemplated action would violate the stay and, thus, require stay relief before the […]
Dealing With Distress For Fun & Profit – Installment #10 – About the Automatic Stay
A written tour of business bankruptcy and its alternatives We discussed the automatic stay from the perspective of a secured creditor in Installment #9 of this series.This time we pan the camera back and look at the automatic stay from a broader and more general perspective. It is sometimes said that the two primary objectives […]
Dealing With Distress For Fun & Profit – Installment #9 – Secured Creditors & Chapter 11
A written tour of business bankruptcy and its alternatives Our prior installment discussed some of the basic things a secured creditor needs to know about Chapter 11. The automatic stay was one of them. But, since we like to keep these things short (on the presumption that others also have short attention spans) we didn’t […]
Dealing With Distress For Fun & Profit – Installment #7 – Plan Confirmation
A written tour of business bankruptcy and its alternatives Our last installment focused on what we called the “mundane” middle of a chapter 11 case. You can read it here. This time we discuss something a bit more exciting: confirmation. Summary Chronology Here is the basic chronology leading up to confirming a plan, for those of […]