Litigation | Bankruptcy & Financial Restructuring | Corporate & Finance | Financial Services Litigation | Bankruptcy - Committee Representation | Bankruptcy - Distressed Asset Purchasers | Bankruptcy – Fiduciary | Bankruptcy - Franchisor Representation | Bankruptcy - Fraudulent Transfers & Preference Representation | Bankruptcy - Professional Engagements | Bankruptcy - Debtor Representation | Bankruptcy - Secured Creditors | Bankruptcy - Structured Finance & Securitization | Enforcement, Workouts & Foreclosures

Jonathan Edwards is a partner on Alston & Bird’s Bankruptcy & Financial Restructuring Team. He represents a variety of clients in complex bankruptcy cases, workouts, debt restructurings, distressed acquisitions and dispositions, and complex commercial litigation.

Jonathan focuses his multidisciplinary 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, CMBS, RMBS and indenture trustees; CMBS master and special servicers and CDO collateral managers; defendants in avoidance actions; and other parties. He also counsels and represents directors, officers, Chapter 7 trustees and others in complex bankruptcy and commercial litigation. Jonathan is also actively involved in advising clients on bankruptcy structuring issues in leveraged finance, securitization and structured finance transactions.

In 2015 and 2016, Jonathan was selected to the Georgia Super Lawyers Rising Star list. His article “The Crossroads: The Intersection of State Law Remedies & Bankruptcy” is quoted by several bankruptcy courts and the leading treatise on bankruptcy, Collier Guide to Chapter 11: Key Topics and Selected Industries.

Representative Experience

• General outside counsel to one of the largest privately held commercial roofing distributors in the Southeast.
• General outside bankruptcy and creditors’ rights counsel to a leading environmental testing company in the U.S.
• 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.
• 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.
• Represents a special servicer in connection with a multimillion-dollar credit lease obligation in the Nortel U.S. and Canadian bankruptcy proceedings.
• Represents 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.