Press Release
Bankruptcy Attorney John Weiss Joins Duane Morris in Chicago
CHICAGO, November 9, 2006 - Duane Morris LLP is pleased to welcome John R. Weiss, formerly of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, as a partner in its Chicago office. John joins the firm's Business Reorganization and Financial Restructuring Practice Group.
John 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. John 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 representation of commercial mortgage lenders in foreclosure and bankruptcy proceedings. John also has practiced in workouts involving investor-owned electric utilities and sponsors/suppliers of asset securitization transactions. His practice on behalf of debtors includes companies in the golf, entertainment, hospitality, wire and cable, steel, trucking, aluminum smelting, and sampling businesses.
John is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Illinois, the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Central Districts of Illinois, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Seventh and Eighth Circuits, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is 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.
A 1982 graduate of Northwestern University, John earned his J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law in 1985.
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