Jonathan Friedland is a partner with Sugar Felsenthal Grais & Helsinger, LLP. Although based in Chicago, he is licensed to practice in Arizona, Illinois, New Jersey, and New York. He views his job very simply: to make clients money whenever possible and to protect their interests at every turn. Jonathan holds the highest possible rating from Martindale-Hubbell (AV® Preeminent™) and AVVO (10/10), has been repeatedly recognized as an Illinois “superlawyer” in the areas of Business/Corporate Law and Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights, and has received several other similar distinctions. Jonathan’s transactional work includes serving as outside general counsel to a number of closely held businesses and their respective principals; representing private equity funds and others in their M&A activities; advising investors; and representing lenders and equipment lessors. The wide range of issues he regularly advises on include: fiduciary duties; structuring issues (between shareholders, members, joint ventures, etc.); credit negotiations; general contract issues; succession planning, employee matters, and litigation. Jonathan is on the editorial board of The Corporate Counselor. Jonathan has extensive experience in guiding companies and their constituents through a variety of challenging situations. He represents companies in distress, their owners and boards of directors, official and ad hoc creditor committees, buyers, and other stakeholders in bankruptcy cases, assignments for the benefit of creditors, receiverships, and out-of-court workouts. Jonathan is lead author of Strategic Alternatives for Distressed Businesses, and Commercial Bankruptcy Litigation, each published by West. He is also the general editor of A Comparison Shopping Guide for 363 Sales, a 250 page treatise published by the American Bankruptcy Institute. Jonathan has been profiled, interviewed, and/or quoted in numerous publications, including Buyouts Magazine; Smart Business Magazine; The M&A Journal; Inside Counsel; LAW360; Business Week.com; The Bankruptcy Strategist; Dow Jones Daily Bankruptcy Review; Bankruptcy Court Decisions; 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. He clerked for a federal judge before entering private practice. He was an Adjunct Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business for several years and was the 2006 Clayton Center for Entrepreneurial Law Visiting Professor of Business Law at the University of Tennessee College of Law. Jonathan was a partner with Kirkland & Ellis before joining SugarFGH. Jonathan is also the founder and chairman of DailyDAC, LLC, d/b/a Financial Poise™ (an on-line provider of continuing education, information, and business intelligence for business owners, investors, and their respective trusted advisors).