Brad Erens

Brad B. Erens is a partner with Jones Day in Chicago, where he oversees its Business Restructuring & Reorganization Practice. He focuses his practice on corporate restructurings, workouts and bankruptcy matters, and he has substantial experience in representing companies, bank groups, other secured and unsecured creditors, committees, asset-purchasers, and other interested parties in a wide variety of re- structuring matters. Mr. Eren's engagements include Aetna and Zenith Industries (purchaser), Amfac Hawaii (company), Borden Chemicals and Plastics (company), Boscov's Department Store (company), Carmike Cinemas (bank group), Circuit Systems (secured creditor), Collins & Aikman (purchaser), Detroit (debtor), El Camino Resources (secured lender), FLYi/Independence Air (company), General Growth Properties (DIP lender), Harry & David (company), Hollinger Inc. (primary secured bondhold- er), Hotel 71 (first-lien mortgage lender), Leasing Solutions (securitization lender), National Equipment Services (bank group), National Jockey Club (first-lien secured lender), NII Holdings (parent company), NRG Energy (company), Penton Media (company), Pittsburgh Corning Corp. (DIP lender), PLVTZ (company), Rohn Industries (bank group), Snyder's Drug Stores (bank group and DIP lender), Teleglobe (company), Tribune Co. (Special Committee of Board of Directors) and USG Corp. (company). He is also an adjunct professor at DePaul University College of Law and Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he teaches corporate reorganizations. Mr. Erens is featured in Illinois Super Lawyers and Chambers USA and is rated as one of the best bankruptcy lawyers in Chicago by the PLC Cross-border Restructuring and Insolvency Handbook. He received his B.A. summa cum laude in 1988 from Yale University and his J.D. in 1991 from the University of Chicago, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif.