Jonathan T. Edwards

Jonathan T. Edwards is a partner with Alston & Bird LLP in Atlanta in its Financial Restructuring &Reorganization Group. He represents various clients in corporate, finance and litigation matters, including complex bankruptcy cases, workouts, receiverships and assignments for the benefit of creditors, debt restructurings, distressed acquisitions and dispositions, financings and recapitalizations, and commercial litigation. Mr. Edwards focuses his practice on assignments combining financial and operational restructuring advice with transactional and major litigation work. He represents distressed purchasers, debtors and other parties in bankruptcy sales; private and alternative credit lenders and financial institutions; unsecured creditors; CDO, CLO, CMBS, RMBS and indenture trustees; CMBS master and special servicers and collateral managers; and defendants in avoidance actions, including fraudulent-transfer litigation nationwide. Mr. Edwards counsels directors, officers and others in complex bankruptcy and commercial litigation. He also helps lead the firm’s opinion committee, advising on bankruptcy structuring issues in leveraged finance, securitization and structured finance transactions. Mr. Edwards is listed in the 2019-2021 editions of The Best Lawyers in America for Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, and was a 2018 honoree of ABI’s “40 Under 40” program. Since2015, he has been selected to the Georgia Super Lawyers “Rising Star” list, and in 2019-2021 he was named in Chambers USA for Bankruptcy/Restructuring – Georgia. In 2017, he received M&A Advisor’sEmerging Leaders Award for his contributions to the turnaround industry. Mr. Edwards is admitted to practice in New York and Georgia and is an ABI member. He received his B.B.A. in 2005 from GeorgiaState University and his J.D. in 2008 from Mercer University.