Jason DeJonker, Esq.
Jason J. DeJonker is a partner and co-global practice group leader of Finance Transactions at BryanCave Leighton Paisner LLP in Chicago. He assists clients with creditors’ rights and bankruptcy matters, including private-equity investors, financial institutions, special servicers, Fortune 500 corporations, trustees and receivers. Mr. DeJonker’s experience includes lender and borrower-side loan workouts, representations of debtors and secured creditors in chapter 11 bankruptcy cases (including DIP and exit finance) and the plan-confirmation process, commercial foreclosures, and complex collection and judgment collection matters. Out of the courtroom, he routinely counsels clients on structuring distressed transactions (including traditional M&A and commercial real estate transactions involving all asset<br>types), provides advice to corporate management and boards of directors on fiduciary duty issues, and helps private-equity and traditional lender clients in structuring commercial real estate and C&I loans.Mr. DeJonker serves on the firm’s Global Leadership Board and is actively involved in the management of the firm. He is involved in the firm’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and previously chaired the firm’s lawyers of color affinity group. He also is an active member of the firm’s Global Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Board. Mr. DeJonker previously held leadership positions with the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA), the Asian American Bar Association of Chicago (AABA),the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) and the Chicago Committee for Minorities in LargeLaw Firms. He received his B.A. in 1997 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and hisJ.D. cum laude in 2000 from the University of Illinois.