John Elrod
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>John D. Elrod</strong> is a shareholder with Greenberg Traurig LLP in Atlanta, where he focuses his practice on bankruptcy, creditors’ rights and commercial litigation. He regularly represents secured lenders, indenture trustees, creditor committees, estate fiduciaries and other parties in commercial bankruptcies, out-of-court restructurings and litigation. Mr. Elrod’s industry experience includes insolvency matters in the automotive, health care, financial services, restaurant and retail sectors. He also has wide-ranging experience in litigation involving complex fraudulent transfers, corporate director and officer fiduciary-duty claims, and public finance matters. Mr. Elrod has broad experience in federal, state and bankruptcy courts throughout the U.S. He was a member of the winning team that received the Global M&A Network’s Turnaround Atlas Awards, “Energy Services Restructuring of the Year (Mid-Markets),” for Shale Support Global Holdings in 2021, and he has been listed in <em>Georgia Super Lawyers</em> (2016-22). He also was a member of the winning team for The M&A Advisor’s Turnaround Awards, “Sec. 363 Sale of the Year ($25MM to $100MM),” for the § 363 sale of Last Call Guarantor, LLC in 2017, and he has been listed in <em>Georgia Trend</em> magazine’s “Legal Elite” from 2012-13 and 2015-16, and in <em>Chambers USA</em> from 2013-14. Mr. Elrod is a member of ABI and the Turnaround Management Association’s Education Oversight Committee, as well as the Commercial Finance Association. He is admitted to practice in Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Tennessee. He received his B.A. in 1997 from the University of the South and his J.D. in 2001 from Samford University Cumberland School of Law.</p>