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John H. Rowland

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John H. Rowland

John H. Rowland is a shareholder in the Nashville, Tenn., office of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell& Berkowitz, PC and is a past chair of its Corporate Restructuring and Bankruptcy Group. He represents a variety of clients in complex business reorganizations, restructurings and financing transactions. Mr.Rowland regularly counsels companies facing financial challenges, and he is experienced in represent-ing various constituencies, creditors and individuals in bankruptcy cases and adversary proceedings.He also represents buyers and sellers of distressed assets, parties who wish to proceed outside of bankruptcy, and lenders seeking to provide chapter 11 debtor-in-possession and exit financing. Mr. Rowland is a frequent presenter on bankruptcy-related topics. He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 2005 for Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law and Bankruptcy Litigation, named the Best Lawyers’ 2017 Nashville Litigation - Bankruptcy “Lawyer of theYear,” listed since 2008 in Mid-South Super Lawyers and selected as “Best of the Bar” in the NashvilleBusiness Journal in 2005. Mr. Rowland was president of the Midsouth Commercial Law Institute from2010-11 and chair of the Bankruptcy Court Committee of the Nashville Bar Association in 2004, and he is a member of the American, Tennessee (Executive Committee Member, Commercial, Bankruptcy, andBanking Law Section) and Nashville Bar Associations. He received his B.A. with honors in 1986 fromAlma College and his J.D. in 1989 from the University of Kentucky College of Law.