Jackson David Toof, Esq.

Jackson D. Toof is a partner in ArentFox Schiff LLP’s Complex Litigation and Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Group in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office, where he focuses on all aspects of bankruptcy and financial services litigation. He has served as lead litigation counsel for clients in many of the country’s largest and most complex bankruptcies and reorganizations, including such chapter 11 cases as Caesars, PG&E, Hertz, Endo, Mallinckrodt and Cengage. Mr. Toof has been involved in all aspects of bankruptcy and strategic litigation, including pursuing and defending actions on behalf of various creditor constituencies, complex financial restructurings and valuation disputes, and fraudulent transfer and preference actions, and he has handled all aspects of litigation enforcing indentures and the rights and remedies of indenture trustees. He also has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in a wide range of complex commercial matters. Rated AV-Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell, Mr. Toof has extensive experience defending and pursuing actions in numerous areas, including a variety of international trade, business tort, contract and real estate actions, shareholder litigation, noncompete and nonsolicitation litigation, False Claims Act/qui tam and health care matters, ratemaking determinations for digital music licenses before the Copyright Royalty Board, probate litigation, and criminal and white-collar criminal defense. He has first- and second-chaired jury, bench, and administrative trials in a variety of civil and criminal matters, and his litigation practice involves all phases of litigation from strategic business counseling and problem solving through trial and appellate review. Mr. Toof received his B.A. summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1999 from the University of New Hampshire and his J.D. in 2002 from American University’s Washington College of Law, and he graduated from the Naval Justice School in 2003.