Mr. John J. Monaghan

John J. Monaghan is a partner in Holland & Knight LLP?s Boston office and serves as the co-national practice group leader of the firm?s Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Creditors? Rights Practice Group. He is particularly focused on representing major case participants in complex commercial insolvency and restructuring matters, with a particular focus on chapter 11 cases. Mr. Monaghan represents both U.S.-based companies as debtors in chapter 11 and non-U.S. companies in both in-court and out-of-court cross-border insolvency proceedings. His creditor representations focus on matters involving senior lenders, both in syndicated and single-lender deals, and he has experience representing creditors? committees, equity committees, purchasers of assets, landlords, licensors, trustees, parties to pre-petition contracts and leases, defendants in adversary proceedings and unsecured creditors. Mr. Monaghan?s experience crosses a broad array of industries, including finance, manufacturing, real estate, technology, telecommunications, retail, health care, resort and hospitality, franchise, food service, leasing, maritime and aviation. His experience includes advising for-profit and nonprofit boards in connection with governance issues, as well as in litigating director and officer fiduciary duty issues for estate representatives and for directors and officers. Mr. Monaghan?s litigation experience also includes defending and prosecuting fraudulent transfer and other avoidance actions, as well as numerous cross-border insolvency proceedings centered in a number of countries, and he has represented companies or creditors in cases centered in Singapore, the U.K., Canada, Switzerland, Greece, the Caribbean, Bermuda, Brazil, theCzech Republic, Taiwan and other countries in matters involving shipping, finance, aviation, energy, manufacturing and hospitality companies. Mr. Monaghan has been named a top bankruptcy lawyer by numerous ranking publications, and in 2008, he was inducted as a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy. In 2010, he was named as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation (ABF), and he was named to the International Insolvency Institute (III) in 2016. A frequent lecturer on bankruptcy is-sues, Mr. Monaghan has presented seminars on the Bankruptcy Code safe harbors for financial industry transactions, constitutional issues arising from the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA), litigating contested plan confirmation proceedings, the purchaser?s perspective in transactions with a chapter 11 debtor, cross-border issues in energy industry insolvencies, and maritime insolvency issues for organizations including ABI, the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, theInternational Bar Association, Marine Money and the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors. He received his B.A. cum laude from Middlebury College and his J.D. cum laude from BostonUniversity School of Law.

John J. Monaghan