Jonathan W. Young

Jonathan W. Young is a partner with Locke Lord LLP in Boston and co-chairs the firm’s Bankruptcy,Restructuring and Insolvency Practice Group. He regularly advises investors, lenders, directors, equity sponsors and portfolio companies in connection with their rights and obligations relative to financial distress, insolvency and bankruptcy situations. He also advises trustees, receivers and other fiduciaries charged with reorganizing, restructuring or liquidating financially distressed entities. Mr. Young handles a wide range of complex commercial litigation matters — at both the trial and appellate level — with a particular focus on insolvency, bankruptcy and secured lending issues. While he has handled engagements in a wide range of industries, he has experience in private equity, advertising and media, technology and telecommunications, life sciences, audit and accounting and insurance. Mr. Young served as a member of the firm’s Executive Committee from 2014-16. He is admitted to practice before theU.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, Third and Sixth Circuits. Mr.Young has been listed in Chambers USA for Restructuring and Insolvency since 2013, The Best Lawyers in America for Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law since 2021,Global Restructuring Review 100 since 2019, and Illinois Super Lawyers for Bankruptcy since 2009.He received his B.A. cum laude in 1986 from Yale University and his J.D. in 1990 from NorthwesternUniversity School of Law.