John R. Weiss practices in the area of business reorganization and financial restructuring. Mr. Weiss focuses his practice on corporate restructurings and recapitalizations, loan defaults, workouts and bankruptcies. His practice on behalf of creditors focuses on representing banks, institutional investors, indenture trustees, and holders of publicly and privately placed debt securities in complex corporate and municipal situations. His practice on behalf of debtors includes companies in the golf, entertainment, hospitality, wire and cable, steel, trucking, aluminum smelting, and sampling businesses.

Mr. Weiss has worked for traditional bank and finance company clients in straight loan and asset-based lending facilities; institutional investor clients in negotiated secured and unsecured private placement transactions; indenture trustees for and holders of debt securities issued by multinational corporations and municipalities; and committees of creditors formed either before or after a bankruptcy case is filed. He has extensive experience in the representation of commercial mortgage lenders in foreclosure and bankruptcy proceedings. Mr. Weiss also has practiced in workouts involving investor-owned electric utilities and sponsors/suppliers of asset securitization transactions.

A member of the American Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association, the American Bankruptcy Institute, and the Turnaround Management Association, Mr. Weiss is a 1985 graduate of Northwestern University School of Law and a graduate of Northwestern University.

Areas Of Practice

Business Reorganization and Financial Restructuring

Admissions

Illinois
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Education

Northwestern University School of Law, J.D., 1985
Northwestern University, B.A., 1982