Biography
D. Ethan Jeffery
Shareholder / 617 226-3410 / Email / PDF
Office: Boston
Experience
Mr. Jeffery’s practice is focused on representing debtors, trustees, and creditors in complex Chapter 11 cases, and the representation of debtors and creditors in non-bankruptcy restructurings and workouts. Mr. Jeffery has represented debtors, creditors committees, and secured and unsecured creditors in bankruptcy and other insolvency proceedings in courts in most states along the Atlantic seaboard. Mr. Jeffery represents plaintiffs and defendants in commercial litigation in bankruptcy proceedings and other litigation matters relating to the debtor-creditor relationship.
Representative Engagements
- Counsel to operators of large retail chains in Chapter 11 proceedings.
- Representation of debtors and court appointed representatives in Chapter 11 proceedings and out of court litigation and insolvency proceedings related to large scale environmental liability.
- Counsel to debtors in out-of-court workouts involving construction, real estate, retail, and manufacturing enterprises.
- Representation of real estate holding enterprises in Chapter 11 proceedings.
- Counsel to creditors and/or creditors’ committees in, among others, the health care, high tech, telecom, and clothing industries.
- Counsel to estate representative in bankruptcy of manufacturing enterprise conducting a complex multi-million dollar ponzi scheme.
- Representation of secured creditors in bankruptcy proceedings involving, among others, the printing, telecom, and real estate industries.
- Representation of estate representatives, plaintiffs, and defendants in lawsuits involving breaches of fiduciary duty by officers and directors, preference and fraudulent conveyance litigation, litigation arising from leveraged buyouts, breach of contract, unfair and deceptive business practices, and construction claims.
Bar and Court Admissions
- Massachusetts
- Pennsylvania
- U.S. District Court, Districts of Massachusetts, New Jersey, and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- U.S. Court of Appeals, First and Third Circuits
Professional Involvement
- American Bar Association
- Boston Bar Association
- American Bankruptcy Institute
Publications
- Personal Liability of a Bankruptcy Trustee since Midlantic National Bank & New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection: The Environmental Law and Bankruptcy Code Conflict Threatens to Engulf Bankruptcy Trustees, 2 Villanova Environmental L.J. 403 (1991).
