John E. Mitchell

John E. Mitchell is a partner with Akerman LLP in Dallas, where he handles all aspects of commercial restructuring and focuses his practice on complex bankruptcies, out-of-court workouts and sales, volun- tary liquidations, asset sales and general insolvency-related litigation. He represents lenders, creditors, debtors and committees across the U.S. in bankruptcy and pre-bankruptcy workouts in the real estate, energy, oil and gas, power, food service, retail, consumer finance, shipping, and commercial vehicles and heavy equipment sectors. Mr. Mitchell is admitted to practice in the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas, and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a member of ABI, the Turnaround Management Association, the State Bar of Texas's Bankruptcy Sec- tion, the Dallas Bar Association's Bankruptcy Section, the Texas Aggie Bar Association and Veterans of Foreign Wars. Previously, Mr. Mitchell was a U.S. Army Lieutenant during Operation Desert Storm. He has been listed in Chambers USA, Super Lawyers and Texas Monthly as a "Texas Rising Star," and received TMA's International Turnaround of the Year Award in 2012. Mr. Mitchell received his B.B.A. in 1988 from Texas A & M University and his J.D. magna cum laude in 1996 from Texas Tech Univer- sity School of Law.