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JONATHAN M. LANDERS joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in 1986 as the founding partner of its San Francisco office, and is now resident in the New York office. He graduated from Colgate University where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and magna cum laude from the Harvard Law School, where he was an Editor of the Harvard Law Review. Mr. Landers was a Professor of Law at the Universities of Kansas and Illinois, a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, the University of California (Boalt Hall), and the University of San Francisco and a Visiting Scholar at the American Bar Foundation. Mr. Landers focuses on matters relating to restructuring, insolvency and financing transactions, and has handled a wide diversity of workout, asset purchase/sale, complex lending, corporate restructuring, and bankruptcy matters. His clients include major banks and other financial institutions, including Wells Fargo and Citibank, potential acquirers of distressed assets including Dubai Investment Co., Marathon Asset Management, BCBG and Oldcastle, and he has represented debtors in the bankruptcy cases of Finova Group, Inc., Divi Hotels, S.S. Retail Stores and The Odyssey Group (The North Face). Mr. Landers is the co-author of books on bankruptcy/creditoris rights and civil procedure, and the author of more than 25 published articles on the subjects of civil procedure, bankruptcy and consumer credit, has testified a number of times before congressional committees, and is a frequent speaker before bar associations and continuing legal education institutes. Recent presentations include programs on buying and selling distressed businesses, deepening insolvency, and recent bankruptcy developments. He is a Contributing Editor of Norton Bankruptcy Law and Practice 2d Ed. (1994-12 Vols.), and a member of the Board of Advisors of Norton Bankruptcy Law Advisor and his most recent publication is Deepening Insolvency Comes of Age, New York Law Journal, October 5, 2006. Mr. Landers is a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference and the American College of Bankruptcy.
