Mr. Jon T. Pearson

Jon T. Pearson is an associate with Ballard Spahr LLP in Philadelphia and Las Vegas, where he con- centrates on representing and advising debtors, secured creditors, DIP lenders, creditors' committees, trustees and purchasers in complex chapter 11 reorganization and liquidation proceedings, including prepackaged and pre-negotiated restructurings. He also has significant experience litigating complex commercial issues, including contract interference, officer and director liability, and contract interpreta- tion and enforcement; fraudulent conveyance and lender-liability cases; oppressed and dissenting share- holders actions; creditor remedies; and all aspects of bankruptcy litigation. Mr. Pearson is a member of ABI and the American and Clark County Bar Associations, as well as the State Bar of Nevada. He was named among "Southern Nevada's Top 100 Attorneys" in Nevada Business magazine's Legal Elite 2011, as well as named among Mountain States Super Lawyers "Rising Stars" 2012 in the area of bank- ruptcy. Mr. Pearson is admitted to practice in Nevada, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and before teh U.S. District Courts for the Districts of Nevada and New Jersey, and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He received his B.M. in 2001 from Temple University and his J.D. in 2006 cum laude from California Western School of Law, where he was an as- sociate editor of the California Western Law Review.