Jason P. Rubin
Partner
Areas of Focus
- Financial Restructuring
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Media, Entertainment & Sports
- Technology
- Digital Assets, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain
- Film, Television & Digital Media
- Advises on distressed debt investment and restructuring of distressed companies.
- Significant experience in restructurings in the oil and gas sectors.
Jason Rubin assists clients in corporate restructurings and creditors’ rights. He represents debtors, secured and unsecured lender groups, and official committees of unsecured creditors in large, complex Chapter 11 cases and out-of-court restructurings. Jason also works frequently with private equity investors pursuing strategies in distressed assets.
Jason is solution-focused and extremely responsive to his clients’ concerns and business imperatives. He is skilled in negotiating and finding creative solutions in highly charged business decisions involving corporate reorganizations.
Jason handles restructurings in industries including:
- Energy, in particular, oil and gas
- Retail
- Manufacturing
- Telecommunications
- GWG Holdings: Counsel to the Official Committee of Bondholders in the chapter 11 cases of GWG Holdings and its affiliates, a financial services firm that invests in secondary life insurance assets and sells life insurance-backed bonds, involving over $2 billion in liabilities.
- Aeroméxico: Counsel to an ad hoc group of senior noteholders of Aerovías de México in the chapter 11 cases of Aeroméxico and its affiliates, Mexico’s flagship airline, involving $2 billion in liabilities.
- Global Eagle Entertainment: Counsel to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the chapter 11 cases of Global Eagle Entertainment and its affiliates, a provider of media services and satellite Wi-Fi to aircraft, boats and remote locations, involving approximately $1.1 billion in liabilities. Successful Restructurings of the Year (Turnarounds & Workouts)
- CEC Entertainment: Counsel to an ad hoc group of first lien lenders in the chapter 11 cases of CEC Entertainment and its affiliates, the parent company of Chuck E. Cheese and Peter Piper Pizza, involving $2 billion in liabilities.
- Sanchez Energy: Counsel to the debtor, an upstream energy company, in its chapter 11 cases involving approximately $2.3 billion in liabilities.
EducationJ.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School, cum laude, 2004
B.A., University of Pennsylvania, magna cum laude, 2001
J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School, cum laude, 2004
B.A., University of Pennsylvania, magna cum laude, 2001
Bar AdmissionsNew York
New York
- The Legal 500 US, Corporate Restructuring (including Bankruptcy), 2018.