Jonathan M. Landers joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in 1986 as the founding partner of its San Francisco office, and is now resident in the New York office and co-chair of the firm's Business Restructuring and Reorganization Practice Group.  He is a nationally recognized authority in bankruptcy and insolvency law, and has extensive experience in bankruptcy, insolvency, restructuring, financing transactions, purchase/sale of assets and bankruptcy and insolvency litigation matters, representing debtors, lenders and lending syndicates, large creditors, litigation defendants and asset sellers and purchasers.  He is one of only sixty-five members of the prestigious National Bankruptcy Conference, a member of the American College of Bankruptcy (founding class), and has been recognized repeatedly in The Guide to the World's Leading Insolvency Lawyers and The Best Lawyers in America – most recently in the 2009 edition.  Mr. Landers was listed in The Legal 500 US, 2008 edition, as a leading corporate restructuring attorney.  Mr. Landers was also featured as a "Mover of the Week" in Daily Bankruptcy Review Small-Cap (Dow Jones & Company, Inc., April 29, 2005).

Mr. Landers was lead counsel for the debtors in The Finova Group, Inc., Odyssey Group (North Face and Head Sportswear), Divi Hotels and S.S. Retail Stores; lead counsel for secured lenders in Insilco and Concap I, II, IV, and V (involving real estate loans aggregating $500+MM); represented Merrill Lynch in the Enron and Adelphia bankruptcies, Wells Fargo Bank in the Placid and Penrod bankruptcies, and Dial Corporation in the Greyhound and Bergner bankruptcies; represented asset purchasers in the U.S. Aggregates, Greate Bay Casinos, Liquor Barn, Sonic Telecommunications, Grand Palais Riverboat and Rivermeadows (Crescent H Ranch) bankruptcies; and was lead counsel for lending groups in numerous workout and restructuring transactions, including Wells Fargo Bank, Bank of Montreal, Bracton Corporation (successor to Crocker National Bank) and Citibank in connection with the liquidation and bankruptcy of a major U.S. law firm.

He graduated from Colgate University where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and magna cum laude from the Harvard Law School, where he was an Editor of the Harvard Law Review.  Mr. Landers has been a Professor of Law at the Universities of Kansas and Illinois, a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, a Visiting Scholar at the American Bar Foundation, a Visiting Professor at the University of California Law School (Boalt Hall), and the Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of San Francisco Law School. 

Mr. Landers is the co-author of books on bankruptcy/creditors' rights and civil procedure, and the author of more than 25 published articles on bankruptcy, creditors' rights and other areas, has testified a number of times before congressional committees, and is a frequent speaker before bar associations and continuing legal education institutes.  Recent presentations include programs on buying and selling distressed businesses, out of court restructuring transactions, bankruptcy issues in lending to professional firms, legal and structural issues in distressed debt transactions and recent bankruptcy developments, at programs sponsored by the Norton Bankruptcy Institute, American Bankruptcy Institute, Mid-South Commercial Law Institute, ABA Business Bankruptcy Section, Strategic Research Institute and Institute for International Research.  His publications include Selling an Operating Business, 33 UCC Law Journal 387 (2001); Agenda for the Bankruptcy Commission, 1995 Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law 665; Parents, Subsidiaries and Affiliates in Bankruptcy, 42 U. Chi. L. Rev. 589 (1975) and 43 U. Chi. L. Rev. 527 (1976); and The Shipowner Becomes a Bankrupt, 39 U. Chi, L. Rev. 490 (1972).  He is a Contributing Editor of Norton on Bankruptcy, and a member of the Board of Editors of the Norton Bankruptcy Law Advisor.

Speaking Engagements in 2006 - 2007

Other Presentations

Partial Bibliography

• Landers & Coleman, Selling an Operating Business in Bankruptcy, 33 UCC L.J. 387 (2001).
  
• Landers & Coleman, An Agenda for the Bankruptcy Commission, 1995 Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law 665.
  
• Landers & Dunwoody, Postpetition Financing:  Lending Money to a Company in Bankruptcy, 2 Faulkner & Gray's Bankruptcy Law Review 5 (1990).
  
• Landers, Reorganizing a Farm Business, 5 J Ag. L & Tax. 11 (1983).
  
• Landers & Rohner, A Functional Analysis of Truth in Lending, 26 U.C.L.A. L. Rev. 711 (1979).
  
• Landers, Open-End Disclosure Requirements Under the Truth in Lending Act, 52 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1005 (1979).
  
• Landers, The Scope of Coverage of the Truth in Lending Act, 1976 A.B.F. Res. J. 565.
  
• Landers, Another Word on Parents, Subsidiaries and Affiliates in Bankruptcy, 43 U. Chi. L. Rev. 527 (1976).
  
• Landers, A Unified Approach to Parent, Subsidiary, and Affiliate Questions in Bankruptcy, 42 U. Chi. L. Rev. 589 (1975).
  
• Landers, Of Legalized Blackmail and Legalized Theft:  Consumer Class Actions and the Substance-Procedure Dilemma, 47 So. Cal. L. Rev. 842 (1974).
  
• Landers, The New Bankruptcy Rules:  Relics of the Past as Fixtures of the Future, 57 Minn. L. Rev. 827 (1973).
  
• Clark and Landers, Sniadach, Fuentes and Beyond:  The Creditor Meets The Constitution, 59 Va. L. Rev. 355 (1973).
  
• Landers, By Sleight of Rule:  Admiralty Unification and Ancillary and Pendent Jurisdiction, 51 Tex. L. Rev. 50 (1973).
  
• Landers, The Shipowner Becomes a Bankrupt, 39 U. Chi. L. Rev. 490 (1972).
  
• Epstein & Landers, Debtors and Creditors:  Cases and Materials (2d ed. West 1982).
  
• Friedman, Landers & Collins, The Law of Civil Procedure (West 2002).
  
• Landers & Martin, Civil Procedure (Little, Brown & Co. 1981) (now in fifth edition).