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Restructuring Health Care Distressed Mergers and Acquisitions Distressed Company and Bankruptcy Litigation

Evan M. Jones

Partner


Evan Jones is a partner in the Finance and Restructuring Practice of O'Melveny's Los Angeles office. Major cases he has worked on include representing bank creditors in billion dollar coal, agribusiness and timber reorganization cases, debtors in possession in large retail chains and financial companies, creditors committees in high tech and financial companies, secured lenders to petroleum and home builder borrowers, and parties on all sides of complex entertainment deals and restructurings.

Much of Evan's practice is transactional. He is often involved in structuring deals to avoid or minimize the risks of bankruptcy in close cooperation with our corporate, entertainment, and real estate attorneys. He has substantial experience in purchasing assets out of bankruptcy, including television stations, industrial companies, and entertainment and gaming assets and operations, including major motion pictures.

Evan has extensive intellectual property experience. In the entertainment area, Evan has represented distributors, licensors and licensees of rights, investors and production companies. With regard to patents, he has represented licensors in various cases.

As principal bankruptcy liaison to the firm's Real Estate Workout Group, Evan has broad experience in real estate restructurings, workouts and bankruptcies involving hotels, apartment complexes, office buildings, residential developments, and oil and gas projects. He is also bankruptcy liaison to the firm's Environmental Practice Group in this burgeoning area of law.

Professional Activities

Board of Governors, Financial Lawyers Conference
Honors, Named in Best Lawyers in America; named a “Super Lawyer” in a survey conducted by Law & Politics Media Inc. and published in Los Angeles magazine; named a "Super Lawyer" by Super Lawyers - Corporate Counsel Edition; and named a leader by Chambers USA (Bankruptcy/Restructuring)
Speaker, Frequent speaker to client and bar groups, including the Financial Lawyers Conference, and various firm practice groups

University of California, Berkeley,  J.D., 1984: Order of the Coif; Editor, California Law Review

Duke University,  A.B., 1981: magna cum laude


California; Washington, D.C.


IP Licenses and Bankruptcy  (chapter in The Americas Restructuring and Insolvency Guide 2008/2009)
Bankruptcy Court Decision Raises Question on Acquisition of Claims in Order to Acquire Debtor (Finance and Restructuring Alert)
Lehman Bankruptcy Judge Prevents Trigger of CDO Subordination Provision Based on Credit Support Provider and Swap Counterparty Bankruptcy Filings (Finance and Restructuring Alert)
California Decision Defines Scope of Fiduciary Duties Owed by Directors of Insolvent Corporations to Creditors (Finance and Restructuring Alert)
Asian Joint Venture Relations in the Event of U.S. Bankruptcies (Finance and Restructuring Alert)
Recent Bankruptcy Law Changes May Effect Future Real Estate Restructurings (Finance and Restructuring Alert)
General Growth Properties, Inc. Decision Notes Weaknesses of Securitization Special Purpose Entities (Finance and Restructuring Alert)


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