John A. Simon

John A. Simon is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP in Detroit, where he focuses his practice on national corporate restructuring, insolvency, bankruptcy, mergers and acquisitions, and commercial contract matters. He frequently represents buyers and sellers of companies, borrowers, debtors-in- possession, creditors’ committees, shareholders, customers, suppliers, landlords, and other constituents in complex high-stakes troubled-company situations. Mr. Simon is a member of the firm’s Bankruptcy & Business Reorganizations and Transactional & Securities Practices; Automotive and Energy Industry Teams; and the Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) Team. Some of his representative engagements include the nation’s largest honey distributor as a chapter 11 debtor, achieving an exit from bankruptcy and a transition to a new private-equity owner within 90 days after filing under a pre-negotiated chapter 11 plan. He also represented automotive suppli- ers as debtor’s counsel in their chapter 11 reorganizations, a private-equity-backed purchaser in its acquisition of a high-technology energy grid power management company in a § 363 sale in the Western District of Texas, and mergers and acquisitions counsel to a $1B publicly traded international fashion company, including in transactions across the U.S. and cross-border acquisitions in Mexico and Canada. In addition, he represented the city of Detroit in its chapter 9 bankruptcy case with respect to disputed claims. Mr. Simon is a member of ABI, the Turnaround Management Association, the Association for Corporate Growth and the Hispanic Bar Association of Michigan. He received his Bachelor’s degree in English from Amherst College in 1997 and his J.D. from Boston University School of Law in 2000.