Jason DeJonker, Esq.

Jason J. DeJonker is a Corporate partner with Seyfarth Shaw LLP in Chicago, where he assists clients with creditors’ rights, bankruptcy and transactional matters for private-equity investors, secured lenders, special servicers, Fortune 500 corporations, trustees and receivers. He also chairs the firm’s Restructuring & Insolvency practice group. Mr. DeJonker’s experience includes lender and borrower-side loan workouts (particularly involving CMBS and collateralized loan obligations), representations of debtors and secured creditors in chapter 11 bankruptcy cases (including DIP and exit finance) and the plan confirmation process, commercial real estate and UCC foreclosures, and complex collection and judgment collection matters (including receivership proceedings in federal and state court). Out of the courtroom, he provides advice to corporate management and boards of directors on fiduciary duty and risk issues, counsels clients on structuring and closing distressed transactions (including traditional M&A and commercial real estate transactions involving all asset types), and helps private-equity and traditional lender clients in structuring commercial real estate and operating company loans (both balance sheet and ABI loans). Mr. DeJonker began his career as an M&A and finance attorney and previously held leadership positions with the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA), the Asian American Bar Association of Chicago (AABA), the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) and the Chicago Committee for Minorities in Large Law Firms. He received his B.A. in 1997 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his J.D. cum laude in 2000 from the University of Illinois.