Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Mark Cody's practice focuses primarily on corporate bankruptcy, restructuring, and other insolvency-related matters. In recent years he has been involved in Jones Day's representation of debtors, lenders, creditors' committees, and other parties in large corporate restructurings across the country, including the representation of the debtors in the chapter 11 cases of Performance Transportation Services, Slater Steel, NationsRent, FLYi/Independence Air, National Century Financial Enterprises, Laidlaw, USG Corporation, Loewen Group (n/k/a the Alderwoods Group), Imperial Home Decor, Montgomery Ward Holding Corp., Purina Mills, and Tultex Corporation; the official committee of retired employees in the chapter 11 cases of Tower Automotive; the official committee of unsecured creditors in the chapter 11 cases of MobileMedia Communications and Mercury Finance; and the administrative agent to the pre- and postpetition secured lenders in the National Equipment Services cases.

Other chapter 11 cases in which he has been involved include Edison Brothers Stores (1999 filing), The J. Peterman Company, and NutraMax Products. He also has provided insolvency-related advice to Firm clients in the litigation and transactional contexts, including fraudulent conveyance and preferential transfer matters and distressed acquisition transactions.

Mark is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, the Illinois State Bar Association, and The Chicago Bar Association. He is admitted to practice at the federal level in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

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

Representative Cases

• In re Montgomery Ward Holding Corp., et al. - Jointly administered Case No. 97-1409 (PJW) - U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware
• In re National Century Financial Enterprises, Inc., Case No. 02-65235, (Bankr. S.D. Ohio)
• Chapter 11 / Case Administration
• Chapter 11 Asbestos Case
• Chapter 11 cases
• Chapter 11 Debtor Representation
• Chapter 11 Debtor Representations
• Chapter 11 Debtor Representations
• Chapter 11 Debtor Representations
• Chapter 11 Debtor Representations
• Chapter 11 Debtor Representations
• Chapter 11 Debtor Representations
• Chapter 11 Debtor Representations
• Chapter 11 Debtor Representations
• Chapter 11 Debtor Representations
• Chapter 11 Debtor Representations
• Edison Brothers Stores, Inc.
• Global Restructuring Matters – Cross-Border Reorganizations
• Global Restructuring Matters – Cross-Border Reorganizations
• Global Restructuring Matters – Cross-Border Reorganizations
• Hotel 71
• Mercury Finance Corp.
• MobileMedia Communications, Inc.
• National Equipment Services, Inc.
• Significant Creditor Representations
• Tender Offer , (2008)

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

• St. John's University

Published Works

• Delaware Bankruptcy Court Denies Debtors the Ability to Assume and Reject Individual Leases Under A Master Lease Agreement, 2008

Address

77 West Wacker
Chicago, IL 60601-1692

Phones

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Websites

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