Jonathan T. Edwards

• General outside counsel to one of the largest privately held roofing distributors in the Southeast.
• General outside bankruptcy counsel to a $48 billion supply chain services leader that provides grocery, food service, and supply chain solutions for convenience stores, mass merchants, drug stores, and chain restaurants throughout the U.S.
• Representing one of the largest banks in the U.S., as indenture trustee, for three CLO funds owed approximately $2.4 billion in cases pending in Delaware
• U.S. lead litigation counsel to a specialty, asset-based lender in cross-border claims litigation in connection with the failure of the Toronto branch of a multinational bank.
• General outside bankruptcy and creditors’ rights counsel to a leading environmental testing company in the U.S.
• Lead bankruptcy counsel to a leading health care company in its distressed acquisition of Hutcheson Medical Center, a Georgia-based hospital.
• Lead bankruptcy counsel to one of the largest automotive parts distributors on the East Coast in connection with its distressed acquisition of substantially all the assets of Johnson Industries Inc., an Atlanta-based automotive parts distributor.
• Represented a special servicer in connection with a $85 million credit lease obligation in the Nortel U.S. and Canadian bankruptcy proceedings.
• Represented several CDO collateral managers, CDO trustees, and indenture trustees in trust-preferred securities issuances involving numerous bank and non-bank holding companies, including representing the collateral manager in prosecuting $80 million in claims against a borrower in the New York Supreme Court, Commercial Division.
• Represented the U.S. subsidiary of a large yacht manufacturer located in the UK in connection with its Chapter 11 involuntary bankruptcy case.

Jonathan Edwards is a partner with Alston & Bird’s Financial Restructuring & Reorganization Group. He represents various clients in complex bankruptcy cases, workouts, debt restructurings, distressed acquisitions and dispositions, and commercial litigation. 

Jonathan focuses his practice on assignments combining traditional restructuring advice with transactional and major litigation work. He represents purchasers, debtors, and other parties in bankruptcy sales; secured and unsecured creditors; CDO, CLO, CMBS, RMBS, and indenture trustees; CMBS master and special servicers and collateral managers; defendants in avoidance actions, including fraudulent transfer litigation nationwide; and other parties. He represents directors, officers, and others in complex bankruptcy and commercial litigation. Jonathan advises on bankruptcy structuring issues in leveraged finance, securitization, and structured finance transactions.

Jonathan was selected by his peers for inclusion in the 2019-2020 editions of The Best Lawyers in America^© for Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law. He was also on the American Bankruptcy Institute’s 2018 “40 Under 40” list. Since 2015, Jonathan has been selected to the Georgia Super Lawyers “Rising Star” list, and in 2018-2019 was named in Chambers USA for Bankruptcy/Restructuring – Georgia. His article, “The Crossroads: The Intersection of State Law Remedies & Bankruptcy,” is quoted by bankruptcy courts and Collier Guide to Chapter 11: Key Topics and Selected Industries. In 2017, Jonathan received M&A Advisor’s Emerging Leaders Award for his contributions to the turnaround industry. 

Bar Admissions

• Georgia
• New York

Education

• Mercer University (J.D., 2008)
• Georgia State University (B.B.A., 2005)

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