About
Jonathan Paul Friedland is a partner and executive committee member at a law firm in Chicago, Illinois. With a focus on making a living for customers and defensive their pastimes, he makes a speciality of transactional paintings, serving as outside wellknown counsel to carefully-held companies, representing non-public equity finances in M&A activities, and structuring new business relationships. Friedland additionally presents recommendation on fiduciary responsibilities, corporate structuring, credit negotiations, contract troubles, succession planning, worker subjects, and litigation. Jonathan Paul Friedland is known for steering corporations through hard situations, consisting of representing companies in distress, owners, forums of directors, creditor committees, buyers, receivers, trustees, and other stakeholders in financial ruin cases and out-of-courtroom exercises. While no longer an ordeal legal professional, Friedland works carefully with litigation partners to ensure the nice results for his clients. After clerking for a federal decide, Friedland entered personal practice and later have become an Adjunct Professor of Strategic Management on the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business. He additionally served as the first Clayton Center for Entrepreneurial Law Visiting Professor of Business Law at the University of Tennessee College of Law. Friedland has been featured in numerous courses and is the lead writer of several treatises and articles on law and business. Additionally, he's the founding father of a web platform offering continuing schooling and commercial enterprise intelligence for commercial enterprise owners, buyers, and advisors. Jonathan Paul Friedland's understanding and willpower to his customers make him a trusted and respected attorney within the Chicago region.
Legal Issues
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Bankruptcy
- Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, Chapter 13 Bankruptcy, Chapter 7 Bankruptcy, Debt Relief
- Corporate Restructuring, Insolvency & Special Situations
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- General Corporate Law
- Commercial Litigation Finance
- Portfolio Company Representation
Certificates
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Experience
- Partner
Sugar Felsenthal Grais & Helsinger LLP
2013 - Partner
Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC
2007 - Adjunct Professor of Strategic Management
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
2007 - Partner
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
1999 - Visiting Professor
University of Tennessee College of Law
2006 - Associate
Schiff Hardin LLP
1997 - United States Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Illinois
Law Clerk
1994
Education

Graduation year: 1991

Graduation year: 1988
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