Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Brad Erens oversees the business restructuring and reorganization practice in Jones Day's Chicago Office. His practice focuses on corporate restructuring and refinancing, workout, and bankruptcy matters. He has substantial experience in representing companies, bank groups, other secured and unsecured creditors, committees, asset purchasers, securitization lenders, and other interested parties in a wide variety of matters.

Brad's engagements include:

• AES Corporation (purchaser)

• Aetna and Zenith Industries (purchaser)

• Amfac Hawaii (company)

• BankVest Capital Corporation (securitization lender)

• Borden Chemicals and Plastics (company)

• Boscov's Department Store (company)

• Boston Chicken (bank group)

• Calpine Corporation (second lien term loan)

• Carmike Cinemas (bank group)

• CellPro (largest unsecured creditor and asset purchaser)

• Circuit Systems (secured creditor)

• Columbia Gas Transmission Company (official unsecured creditors' committee)

• Comdisco (bank group)

• El Camino Resources (secured lender)

• Enron (prospective pipeline purchaser)

• FLYi/Independence Air (company representation)

• Hollinger Inc. (primary secured bondholder)

• Hotel 71 (first lien mortgage lender)

• Laclede Steel Company (bank group and DIP lender)

• Leasing Solutions (securitization lender)

• The Lovable Company (asset purchaser)

• Michigan Health Care Corporation (company)

• National Equipment Services (bank group)

• National Jockey Club (first lien secured lender)

• NII Holdings (parent company)

• NRG Energy (company)

• Pittsburgh Corning Corporation (DIP lender)

• Reliance Acceptance Corporation (bank group and DIP lender)

• Richman Gordman Stores (100 percent equity holder)

• Rohn Industries (bank group)

• Snyder's Drug Stores (bank group and DIP lender)

• Teleglobe (company)

• T&W Financial Services Company (securitization lender) and

• USG Corporation (company).

Brad is an adjunct professor at the DePaul University College of Law and the Chicago-Kent College of Law in Chicago where he teaches corporate reorganizations. He is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute. Brad is featured in Illinois Super Lawyers for 2006 through 2008 and was rated as one of the best bankruptcy lawyers in Chicago in 2006 and 2007 by the PLC Cross-border Restructuring and Insolvency Handbook. Prior to joining Jones Day, he practiced at the law firm of Sidley & Austin in Chicago and also served as general counsel and director of business development for Delray Farms, a specialty food retailer in Chicago.

Areas of Practice

• Business Restructuring & Reorganization
• Chapter 11 Debtor Representations
• Official Unsecured Creditors' Committees
• Secured Lender Groups
• Bondholder Committees
• Other Significant Creditor Representations
• Out-of-Court Restructurings
• Distressed Mergers & Acquisitions
• Global Restructuring Matters
• Restructuring-Related Lending & Finance
• Financial Services
• Consumer Products & Retail

Representative Cases

• In re NRG Energy
• Acquisition of Soft Trim
• AES Corporation
• Aetna Industries Acquisition
• Bankvest Capital Corporation
• Boston Chicken
• Calpine Corporation
• Carmike Cinemas, Inc.
• CellPro
• Chapter 11 Asbestos Case
• Chapter 11 Debtor Representation
• Chapter 11 Debtor Representations
• Chapter 11 Debtor Representations
• Chapter 11 Debtor Representations
• Chapter 11 Debtor Representations
• Chapter 11 Debtor Representations
• Circuit Systems
• Collins & Aikman
• Columbia Gas Transmission Company
• Comdisco, Inc.
• Debtor Representation
• Delphi Wheel Bearing Business
• DIP Financing
• Distressed Merger & Acquisition , (2009)
• El Camino Resources
• Enron Corporation
• Financing for Archibald Candy and Sweet Factory, Inc.
• Hollinger, Inc.
• Hotel 71
• Laclede Steel Company
• Leasing Solutions
• National Equipment Services, Inc.
• National Jockey Club
• NII Holdings Inc.
• Pittsburgh Corning Corporation
• Reliance Acceptance Corporation
• Richman Gordman Stores
• Rohn Industries
• Sage Enterprises Chapter 11 Cases
• Snyders Drug Stores/Drug Emporium
• Spiegel, Inc.
• T&W Financial Services Company
• The Lovable Company

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Bankruptcy Law, Business & Commercial Law, Business & Trade, Business Organizations, Collections & Repossessions, Collections & Repossessions, Commercial Bankruptcy, Commercial Leasing, Consumer Bankruptcy, Creditors' Rights, Debt Discharge, Foreclosures, Garnishment, International Law, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Reorganizations, Reorganizations & Restructuring, Securities Law, Workouts

Bar Admissions

• Illinois

Education

• U of Chicago

Published Works

• Delaware Bankruptcy Court Overrules Objection of Lone Dissenting Syndicate Lender to Collateral Agent's Credit Bid, 2009
• Bankrupt Subsidiaries: The Challenges to the Parent of Legal Separation, Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal, 2008
• Second and Seventh Circuits Issue Decisions on Third-Party Releases, 2008
• U.S. Bankruptcy Court Denies Failed Hedge Funds' Request for Chapter 15 Recognition, 2007
• U.S. Bankruptcy Court Denies Failed Hedge Funds' Request for Chapter 15 Recognition, 2007
• Bidders Beware: Private Equity Club Deals Could Be Challenged in Bankruptcy, 2007
• U.S. Won't Rubber Stamp Hedge Funds Under Ch. 15, Bankruptcy Law 360, 2007
• Bidders Beware: Private Equity Club Deals Could Be Challenged in Bankruptcy, 24 The Bankruptcy Strategist 11, p. 1., 2007
• Section 503(b)(9) of the Bankruptcy Code and Preference Liability, 3 Pratt's Journal of Bankruptcy Law, 2007
• Parties Other Than Landlords Have Standing to Prevent Assignment of a Tenant's Lease in Bankruptcy, 2007
• Stock Trading Injunctions in Chapter 11: The Poison Pill Alternative, coauthor, The Bankruptcy Strategist,at 3, 2007
• The Poison Pill Alternative to Stock Trading Injunctions in Chapter 11, 2007
• Confidentiality in Chapter 11, 22 Emory Bankr. Dev. J. 47 (2005), 2005
• New Section 503(c) of the Bankruptcy Code — Who Is an ‘Officer’ Under the KERP Amendment?, Andrews Litigation Reporter, Thomson West, 2005
• The Chapter 11 Debtor and Section 556 of the Bankruptcy Code: Are Your Supply Contracts Safe? Andrews Litigation Reporter - Bankruptcy, 2005
• Significant Business Provisions of Landmark Bankruptcy Legislation, 2005

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