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Provided by Steven Jakubowski
Insolvency & Financial Law
Commercial Finance
Litigation
Government & Regulatory Law
Fiduciaries, Receivers & Trustees
Alternative Lenders
Financial Institutions Law
Distressed Financings & Workouts
Chapter 11 Representation of Debtors and Creditors’ Committees
Steve Jakubowski is a Partner in the Firm’s Chicago office. He is a member of the Insolvency & Financial Law, Commercial Finance, Litigation, and Government, Regulatory & Administrative practice groups, with his main practice concentration being in distressed workouts, bankruptcies, receiverships, and related ancillary litigation.
He has served as lead and co-lead counsel in bankruptcy cases nationwide from Delaware to Hawaii on behalf of chapter 11 debtors, official and ad hoc creditors’ and equity committees, distressed asset acquirors, and post-confirmation litigation trustees. These matters have involved him in a variety of industries, including: biotech; commercial real estate; premium fitness clubs; dairy and pig farms; chicken and beef slaughterhouses; farming; department stores; restaurant chains; convenience stores; metal fabricators; equipment lessors; and wholesale food manufacturing, packaging, and distribution.
Steve has remained a corporate lawyer to several companies following their out-of-court restructuring or bankruptcy reorganization.
He also is the founder of the Bankruptcy Litigation Blog, the internet’s first bankruptcy blog (2005), which has over one million page views to date.
Since 2009, Steve has advocated in the bankruptcy court, the Court of Federal Claims, and the Federal Circuit for estate representatives and severely injured accident victims whose product liability claims against General Motors were left behind to receive pennies on the dollar by the federal government in the GM bailout. https://forgottengmbailoutvictims.org/. The federal legislation he drafted to compensate the accident victims for the losses they sustained in the bailout, titled “The Auto Bailout Accident Victims Recovery Act of 2024,” was introduced in the 118th Congress on a bipartisan basis as H.R. 8440 and is expected to be reintroduced in the 119th Congress.
Member, American Bankruptcy Institute
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Steven Jakubowski, of Buchalter, has an active insolvency litigation practice focusing on Chapter 11 proceedings, restructurings and distressed transactions. He serves an array of clients from manufacturing to financial technology and food and beverage.
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Steven is very strategic and forward thinking. He looks at matters from a legal, financial and liability compliance perspective and is great at communication.
He is a consummate professional with deep experience and knowledge in bankruptcy and reorganizations.
He is well connected and understands the impact of different legal and business changes, and how these lead to different business structures.
Steven is very strategic and forward thinking. He looks at matters from a legal, financial and liability compliance perspective and is great at communication.
He is a consummate professional with deep experience and knowledge in bankruptcy and reorganizations.
He is well connected and understands the impact of different legal and business changes, and how these lead to different business structures.