John B Hutton III

Practice Areas

Restructuring & Bankruptcy

Hospitality

Corporate Trust Services

Career

John B. Hutton III is a restructuring advisor and a bankruptcy litigator who has spent his entire career with Greenberg Traurig since joining the firm in 1993. He has wide-ranging experience representing debtors, trustees, secured and unsecured creditors, asset purchasers, indenture trustees and bondholders across various industries, with a particular focus on municipal finance/ tax-exempt bonds, real estate, and hospitality. John litigates issues involving cash collateral, adequate protection, valuation, stay relief, feasibility and plan confirmation treatment. In his early years with the firm, John played a key role in the Southeast Banking Corporation bankruptcy case, one of the largest bank holding companies in Florida, which returned over 100 percent to creditors, along with post-petition interest. He has also had multiple Committee representations, including Mission Health, where the recovery for unsecured creditors was increased from a projected 10 percent to 90 percent. The U.S. Trustee called it the "most aggressive" Committee she had seen in her career. John has broad experience in handling indenture trustee and bondholder representations involving tax-exempt community development district bonds and the issues arising in such cases.

Concentrations:

Bankruptcy, reorganization and restructuring

Bond debt restructuring

Municipal finance/tax exempt bonds

Bankruptcy litigation

Purchase and sale of assets of financially distressed companies

Hospitality industry bankruptcies

Health care bankruptcies

Creditor/debtor rights

Financial institution liquidation

Commercial litigation

Professional Memberships

Member, Commercial Finance Association

Member, Turnaround Management Association

Member, American Bankruptcy Institute; Southeast Advisory Board Member; Planning Committee, Southeast Bankruptcy Workshop

Asset Sales Committee, American Bankruptcy Institute; Former Co-Chair and Education Director

Former President and Current Member, Bankruptcy Bar Association for the Southern District of Florida

Past Board Chairman and Current Board Member, Family Resource Center of South Florida, Inc.

Member, American Bar Association

Member, Dade County Bar Association

Member, Business Law Section of the Florida Bar; Chair, Study Group on Uniform Voidable Transactions Act; Vice Chair, Bankruptcy / UCC Committee; Judicial Liaison Committee

Publications

Listed, Chambers USA Guide, 2005-2022

Personal

J.D., Columbia Law School, 1991

B.A., Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, 1988