- Represented Fortress Investment Group in acquiring a 300-plus location restaurant chain, out of bankruptcy for $50 million.
- Representing a private credit lender in several out-of-court workouts with credits exceeding $100 million.
- Represented a publicly traded Canadian company in the distressed acquisition of a manufacturing facility and millions of dollars’ worth of equipment in North Carolina.
- 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 an $85 million credit lease obligation in the Nortel U.S. and Canadian bankruptcy proceedings.
- Phone: 404.881.4985
- Other Phone: 212.905.9126
- Email: jonathan.edwards@alston.com
Combining traditional restructuring advice with transactional and complex litigation work, Jonathan devises creative yet efficient solutions to counsel clients through major restructurings, bankruptcies and insolvency-related litigation. He represents financial institutions, distressed investors and borrowers, and also serves as general outside bankruptcy counsel for several national companies.