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JONATHAN FRIEDLAND, is a Partner in the Chicago office of Schiff Hardin LLP. He concentrates his practice on representing financially distressed companies and their various constituents. He also advises healthy companies and their principals on a wide variety of issues, as a member of the Firm's Private Clients, Trusts and Estates and Corporate and Securities Groups. Mr. Friedland represents debtors, committees, secured creditors, purchasers, and other parties involved in troubled situations, both in and out of Chapter 11. He has acted as lead counsel to Chapter 11 debtors and committees on numerous occasions. Mr. Friedland has litigated and negotiated preference, recharacterization, fraudulent conveyance, equitable subordination, substantive consolidation, and confirmation issues to successful conclusion. Mr. Friedland also regularly advises companies and their boards of directors and senior management with respect to a wide range of issues, including fiduciary duties, asset purchases, and a wide array of litigation and structuring issues. Mr. Friedland serves as an Adjunct Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Prior to that, he served as a Visiting Professor at the Clayton School of Entrepreneurial Law at the University of Tennessee. Mr. Friedland has been repeatedly selected as an "Illinois Super Lawyer" by Chicago Magazine; is A/V rated; and enjoys a "10" rating on the website "AVVO." He is a director of the American Bankruptcy Institute and serves as executive editor of the ABI Journal. Mr. Friedland received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and his B.S. from Slate University of New York at Albany, magna cum laude, after three years of study. Prior to rejoining Schiff Hardin LLP, he was a Partner in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
