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JONATHAN FRIEDLAND leads Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC's Restructuring & Insolvency Service Group. He has extensive experience in guiding companies and their constituents through a variety of challenging situations, with an emphasis on out-of-court workouts and chapter 11 proceedings. He also represents numerous mid-market private equity groups with their purchases and sales of portfolio companies. He regularly advises clients on a broad array of issues, including: fiduciary duties; structuring issues; credit negotiations; and buy/sell transactions. His litigation practice emphasizes representing business owners in disputes and bankruptcy litigation including preference, fraudulent conveyance, equitable subordination, substantive consolidation, and confirmation issues. Mr. Friedland is lead author of Strategic Alternatives for Distressed Businesses, published in 2008 by Thomson-West, and two books published by Thomson-West due out in 2009. He has written more than 100 articles, and is a popular speaker on related issues. Currently an Adjunct Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business, Mr. Friedland was also a 2006 Clayton Center for Entrepreneurial Law Visiting Professor of Business Law at The University of Tennessee College of Law. He received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and his B.S. from State University of New York at Albany, magna cum laude, after three years of study. Prior to coming to Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC, he was a Partner in the Chicago offices of Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Schiff Hardin LLP.
