Focus Areas
- Represented borrower in successful work-out and settlement of disputed receiver’s credit bid sale to lender of 76-acre distressed mall property in Cincinnati suburbs, allowing borrower affiliates to retain the property for re-investment and redevelopment with reduced payoff on $28M debt and release of personal guarantors
- Represented lender in successful receivership, work-out, and sale of distressed HUD-subsidized multi-family housing project in Memphis, Tennessee through use of complex combined $13M note sale and bridge financing model, allowing for transfer of the property through foreclosure auction
- Represented privately held hotel investor in its $42 million acquisition of the Westin Cleveland Downtown in a contested receivership sale
- Represented purchaser of mixed-use Brooklyn real estate in the In re Evergreen Holdings bankruptcy case for $506 million, including the negotiation and documentation of over $20 million in bid protections with U.S. and Israeli-based creditor groups
- Successfully resolved disputes over $15 million in secured claims in In re Brooks Brothers Group, Inc. bankruptcy cases related to mortgage perfection, Italian value-added tax guarantees and related letters of credit
- Represented indenture trustee of $103 million of bonds in successful prepackaged chapter 11 proceeding of In re Maxcom Telecomunicaciones, S.A.B. de C.V.
- Represented private equity lender in obtaining $39 million judgment and imposition of receivership for the disposition of collateral, including 500+ residential units
- Represented security agent bank in U.S.-based subsidiary proceedings in obtaining estate abandonment of collateral in In re SmarTV Company, LLC and In re Exceptional Innovation, Inc., following the related reorganization proceedings of English and Dutch affiliates
- Successfully defended efforts to impose chapter 11 plan injunction (including related appeal) brought by section 363 asset buyer against counterparties to assumed executory contracts seeking indemnification for post-assumption liabilities for pre-assumption events in In re Armstrong Energy Inc.
- On behalf of secured lender, favorably settled extraterritorial dispute involving competing state court receivers and thereafter assisted lender with credit bid acquisition of $13 million shopping center from the local receiver and later disposition on ordinary market terms
- Represented manufacturers in automotive and aerospace industries with distressed suppliers through creative subordinate financing, access agreements, and similar accommodation mechanisms
- Represented secured lender in the Chapter 11 proceedings of a hospital to obtain complete pay off of balances due under letters of credit issued by lender
- Reached successful resolution and pay-off of bank debt for two distressed golf clubs
- As first chair, obtained dismissal of landlord’s Chapter 11 cases on behalf of tenant municipality at contested trial
- Obtained successful settlements in numerous preference and fraudulent transfer cases in various jurisdictions with minimal litigation costs
- Utilized foreclosure process to assist charitable organization acquire land to expand facilities
- Represented lending institutions and trade creditors in contested receivership, foreclosure, and bankruptcy proceedings
- Assisted trade vendor clients obtain “critical vendor” status in customers’ Chapter 11 cases
- Successfully utilized various judgment-creditor remedies, such as garnishment, creditor bills, debtor exams, foreclosure, and other remedies
- Negotiated forbearance and other work-out solutions in various distressed commercial contexts
- Negotiated and documented numerous instruments in lending, consignment, factoring and other financial and real estate transactions
In addition to authoring firm client alerts, Jon’s thought leadership in this area includes:
- “Third Circuit Affirms Corporate Boards Control Bankruptcy Filings Despite Out-of-State Receivers,” Thompson Hine Business Restructuring Update, September 2025
- “Delaware Bankruptcy Court Limits Issuer’s Reimbursement Duty to Indenture Trustee,” Thompson Hine Business Restructuring, Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy Update, August 2021
- Trigild Deskbook: Guide to Receivership and Foreclosure, (5th, 6th and 7th eds. 2013, 2017 and 2021), contributing author for Ohio Chapter
- “Changes to the Bankruptcy Code Will Favor Small Businesses,” Thompson Hine Business Law Update, Winter 2020
- Co-author, “New Bankruptcy Amendments Lower the Burdens of Preference Actions on Defendants,” Pratt’s Journal of Bankruptcy Law, January 2020
- “New Bankruptcy Amendments Lower the Burdens of Preference Actions on Defendants,” Thompson Hine Business Restructuring, Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy Update, September 2019
- “Does Conversion From S Corp to C Corp Invite Creditor Risks?” Thompson Hine Business Law Update, Winter 2018
- Co-author, “The Rise of International Standards in the Sale of Goods,” American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, April 2017
- “Foreign Borrower’s Rights in Indenture Ruled Sufficient to Meet Second Circuit’s Controversial Chapter 15 Eligibility Requirement,” Thompson Hine Business Restructuring, Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy Update, November 2015
- “NY Court Clarifies ‘Foreign Representative’ for Chapter 15 Recognition,” AIRA Journal, Vol. 29. No. 3 (2015); co-authored with William Schrag
- “Ohio Adopts New Receivership Statute,” Thompson Hine Business Restructuring, Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy Update, January 2015
- “Settling the Municipal Landscape: How Pre-Plan Settlements in Chapter 9 May Sidestep the Traditional Claims-Resolution Process,” American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, May 2013; co-authored with Andrew L. Turscak, Jr. and Curtis L. Tuggle, Re-published in Turnaround Management Association News, July 2013
- “Short Circuited: Section 502(a) May Be Applied to Section 503(b)(9) Administrative Claims,” American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, June 2010; co-authored with Jeremy Campana
- “Supply Chain Solutions: Customer Accommodation,” Dayton Region Manufacturing Association, May 4, 2022
- “Current Dynamics in Supply Chain Restructuring in the United States and Germany,” co-presenter with Holger Leichtle, Görg, TARIG annual meeting, April 28, 2022
- “Bankruptcy Basics for Litigators,” Dayton Bar Association Inn of Court, April 13, 2021
- “Amended Section 547(b): New Requirements, New Defenses,” Strafford Live CLE Webinars, September 1, 2020
- “Introduction to the Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019,” Thomas F. Waldron American Bankruptcy Law Forum, November 19, 2019
- “Non-Consensual Third-Party Releases in Chapter 11 Plans – Practical and Constitutional Questions,” Thomas F. Waldron American Bankruptcy Law Forum, November 2018
- “Franchise Terminations and Franchisor Adequate Protection in Chapter 11,” Thomas F. Waldron American Bankruptcy Law Forum, November 2018
- “Intellectual Property Licenses in Bankruptcy – the Balancing (of) Act(s): Bankruptcy Code vs. Patent Act, Copyright Act & Lanham Act,” Thomas F. Waldron American Bankruptcy Law Forum, November 17, 2015
- “Ohio’s Revised Receivership Laws,” Thompson Hine Client Learning Event, April 2015
- Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2025-2026 for Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Selected for inclusion in IFLR 1000, 2020-2025
- Selected to the Ohio Rising Stars list, 2015-2020
- Selected as a Dayton Business Journal Forty Under 40 honoree, 2017
Professional Activities
- Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Attorney Advisory Committee (Chapter 11 Subcommittee), 2022
- Thomas F. Waldron American Bankruptcy Law Forum, member, 2007 to present; At-Large Trustee, 2017-2019
- American Bankruptcy Institute, member, 2010 to present
Community Activities
- Dayton Society of Natural History, Boonshoft Museum of Discovery; former Associate Board Member; 2015-2019
- Bike Miami Valley, Board Member and Secretary, 2011 to present
- Greater Dayton Volunteer Lawyers Project – volunteer lawyer
Education
- Northwestern University School of Law, J.D., 2007
- Miami University, B.A., 2002,
in History and Philosophy
Bar Admissions
- Ohio
- New York
Court Admissions
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Ohio
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Ohio
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- IFLR1000 2025 Recognizes Thompson Hine Lawyers and Practices,
Thompson Hine LLP
, September 23, 2025 - Third Circuit Affirms Corporate Boards Control Bankruptcy Filings Despite Out-of-State Receivers,
Business Restructuring Update
, September 18, 2025 - IFLR1000 2024 Recognizes Thompson Hine Lawyers and Practices,
Thompson Hine LLP
, September 17, 2024 - IFLR1000 2023 Recognizes Thompson Hine Lawyers and Practices,
Five Practices and Ten Partners Receive Acclaim
, September 19, 2023 - IFLR1000 2022 Recognizes Thompson Hine Lawyers and Practices,
Five Practices and Ten Lawyers Receive Acclaim
, October 17, 2022 - IFLR1000 2021 Recognizes Thompson Hine Lawyers and Practices, January 18, 2022
- Delaware Bankruptcy Court Limits Issuer’s Reimbursement Duty to Indenture Trustee,
Business Restructuring, Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy Update
, August 13, 2021 - IFLR1000 2020 Recognizes Thompson Hine Lawyers and Practices,
Four Practices and Nine Lawyers Receive National Acclaim
, January 27, 2021 - Business Law Update – Winter 2020,
Thompson Hine Newsletter
, January 27, 2020 - New Bankruptcy Amendments Lower the Burdens of Preference Actions on Defendant,
Pratt’s Journal of Bankruptcy Law
, January 21, 2020