Jonathan Friedland has extensive experience 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 provides general legal counsel to healthy companies.
Mr. Friedland began his career representing small businesses and their owners in very difficult financial situations. He then expanded his practice to include representing official committees of unsecured creditors in chapter 11 cases and representing private equity funds in their acquisitions and dispositions of troubled companies. These matters, in turn, led to new clients as members of his former committees began to turn to him for general advice for their own businesses and as other portfolio companies of his private equity fund-clients turned to him for representation in their affairs.
Mr. Friedland also counsels start-ups and their entrepreneur-founders in connection with growing their businesses. He currently serves as de facto general counsel to several such clients and continues to represent parties in bankruptcy cases, assignments, receiverships, and out-of-court restructurings.
He combines his legal skills with common sense and practical business judgment in advising middle market businesses, their owners and private equity funds, in all aspects of their affairs, including formation, capital raising, growth, executive recruitment and retention, and everyday affairs. His litigation practice includes representing business owners in disputes, and bankruptcy litigation including preference, fraudulent conveyance, equitable subordination, substantive consolidation, and confirmation issues. He regularly advises boards of directors with respect to their fiduciary duties in the "zone" of insolvency.
Mr. Friedland is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, was a law clerk to a federal judge, and was a partner with Kirkland & Ellis prior to joining Levenfeld Pearlstein. He currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Strategic Management, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.