Jon Henes

Partner
Kirkland & Ellis

Jon Henes is a partner in the Restructuring Group of Kirkland and Ellis and has led some of the most complex restructurings in the United States and abroad in a variety of industries, including media, chemicals, energy, manufacturing, real estate, retail and telecommunications. Jon’s experience is deep and diverse as he has represented debtors (including portfolio, privately-held and public companies), creditors’ committees and distressed investors (including hedge funds, private equity funds and companies) in acquisitions, restructurings and bankruptcy cases; advised boards of directors and senior managers of financially troubled companies regarding fiduciary duties and restructuring strategies; provided advice in connection with legacy, environmental, mass tort, retiree and pension liabilities of financially troubled companies; and advised investors in connection with the purchase of distressed assets and securities.

Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business has listed Jon as a leading lawyer every year since 2009. Jon was also distinguished as one of The Best Lawyers in America for 2013-2018 in the fields of bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights/insolvency and reorganization law and litigation - bankruptcy. Jon is sought out for his views on a variety of restructuring topics. He writes extensively, publishing blogs and op eds in cnbc.com, The Hill, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Deal, The Wall Street Journal Bankruptcy Beat and Forbes.com, and has appeared on CNBC’s "Worldwide Exchange," Bloomberg Television’s InBusiness, TheDeal and on CNN.

Jon has lectured at Harvard Business School, New York University, Wharton Business School, Wake Forest Law School and Cardozo Law School regarding distressed investing, hedge funds involvement in Chapter 11 and the credit markets, and has published articles on, among other things, distressed debt trading and corporate decision making. Jon is also an adjunct professor at Cardozo Law School where he teaches a course on distressed investing and corporate restructurings and was appointed as the Chairman of the Advisory Committee for the Heyman Center of Corporate Governance, the mission of which is to raise public and academic awareness of pressing corporate and securities law issues and to produce and disseminate research on a broad range of corporate and securities law topics.