Mr. Kenneth L. Cannon

Kenneth L. Cannon, II is senior counsel with Dentons Durham Jones Pinegar, P.C. in Salt Lake City and has specialized in commercial bankruptcy law, representing debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, purchasers, DIP lenders, creditors’ committees, shareholders, trustees, receivers and examiners in chapter 11 reorganization cases, workouts, receiverships, and chapter 7 cases and appeals. He has served successfully as a mediator in the resolution of disputes in bankruptcy cases and has appeared as an expert witness a number of times. Mr. Cannon also advises clients and issues critical bankruptcy and New York law opinions in a variety of commercial transactions. He is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, for which he served as the Regent from the Tenth Circuit from 2017-21. He also served for a number of years on the advisory board of ABI’s Rocky Mountain Bankruptcy Conference, has been named The Best Lawyers in America’s Salt Lake City Lawyer of the Year in Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Law or Bankruptcy Litigation three times, and is listed in Lawdragon 500. Mr. Cannon has taught commercial law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah and debtor/creditor and chapter 11 reorganization courses at BYU’s J. Reuben Clark Law School. In 1985, he served as a senior Fulbright Scholar on the Law Faculty of the University of Helsinki. For a number of years, he chaired the Utah Bankruptcy Court’s Local Bankruptcy Rules Committee and the Utah District Court’s Attorney Discipline Committee. Mr. Cannon has written articles and is a frequent lecturer at seminars on a variety of bankruptcy topics. He co-authored a history of bankruptcy in Utah with former Judge Judith Boulden and has published two books and several dozen scholarly articles on Utah, Mormon and legal history topics. Mr. Cannon is admitted to practice in Utah and New York. He received his B.A. summa cum laude, his M.A. in American history and his J.D. cum laude from Brigham Young University, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif. In 1985, he served as a senior Fulbright Scholar on the Oikeustieteelinen Tiedekunta (law faculty) at the University of Helsinki, where he conducted research on Scandinavian insolvency law.