A partner with the Firm since 1986, John Whitlock has more than thirty years experience representing lenders, indenture trustees, and borrowers in secured and unsecured financing transactions, including syndicated bank loans, stand-by letters of credit, securitization transactions, and subordinated and senior bonds, including tax-exempt bonds. He has also represented creditors, trustees, creditors' committees, and debtors in bankruptcy and workout matters, including transactions involving the purchase or sale of assets by or from insolvent companies in or outside of bankruptcy, the reorganization of business organizations and restructuring of debt including foreclosures on collateral by secured creditors including indenture trustees. He has also advised bankers and other lenders on compliance with consumer banking and consumer disclosure laws. John has been listed by The Best Lawyers in America in Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law for over 20 years.
Notable Experience
· Acted as a bankruptcy trustee and as an examiner in cases under the Bankruptcy Code.
· Represented a publicly held energy company and its principal subsidiaries in public bond (taxable and tax exempt) and syndicated loan financings.
· Represented a publicly held energy company in a $2.6 billion project financing for the development of two electric power plants.
· Represented an indenture trustee in bankruptcy proceedings of an energy and waste disposal company and its operating subsidiaries.
· Represented banks and other institutional lenders in financings secured by federal government receivables.
· Represented an indenture trustee of debt secured by aircraft in the bankruptcy reorganization of two major airlines, including foreclosures and sales of aircraft, and restructuring of publicly financed and privately financed aircraft.
· Represented banks and other lenders in syndicated loan financing for energy services company.
Recent Speaking Engagements and Publications
· "Is that Claim Really Secured and Unavoidable," speaker, American Bankruptcy Association Northeast Regional Conference, Newport, Rhode Island, July 21-23, 2011.
· "Banking - Collateralization," speaker, National Association of State Treasurer's 2009 Treasury Management Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, May 12 - 15, 2009.
· "Fundamentals of Loan Workouts," presenter, MIT Center for Real Estate's Professional Development Institute's Cornerstone Course, March 27, 2009.
· Panelist, Understanding the Credit Crisis program sponsored by the Bankruptcy and Business Law Sections of the Boston Bar Association, Boston, Massachusetts, November 3, 2008.
· "A Sampling of Subprime-Related Litigation Faced By Mortgage Lenders in Bankruptcy," co-author, First Focus: The Subprime Crisis, A Thomson West Report, March 12, 2008.
News & Publications
August 10, 2010, Sixty EAPD Attorneys Recognized by the Best Lawyers in America
September 1, 2009, 62 EAPD Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers in America 2010
July 10, 2009, Boston's Best Lawyers Recognizes 29 EAPD Attorneys
February 4, 2009, 57 EAPD Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers in America 2009
January 23, 2009, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge Represents Maiden Holdings In $260 Million Trust Preferred Securities Transaction
October 7, 2008, Update on Lehman Brothers Insolvency Proceedings in the US, UK and Japan
October 7, 2008, Financial Crisis Update
October 1, 2008, Client Advisory - Senate Rescue Bill
March 12, 2008, A Sampling of Subprime-Related Litigation Faced By Mortgage Lenders in Bankruptcy
Thomson West
October 10, 2007, 57 EAPD Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers in America 2008
September 5, 2006, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge Attorneys Recognized as "Best Lawyers in America"
Events
July 21 - 24, 2011, Newport, RI, 18th Annual Northeast Bankruptcy Conference
May 12-15, 2009, Atlanta, GA, 2009 Treasury Management Conference
March 27, 2009, Cambridge, MA, Fundamentals of Loan Workouts
November 3, 2008, Boston, MA, Understanding the Credit Crisis
Industries
· Energy, Infrastructure & Cleantech
· Banking & Financial Institutions
· Tax-Exempt Organizations
· Aviation and Aerospace
Memberships
· American Bar Association
· Boston Bar Association, Member - Bankruptcy Law Section, Business Law Section (former co-chair), Ethics Committee (former chair)
· American Bankruptcy Institute
· Chair, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's Standing Advisory Committee on Rules of Professional Conduct
· Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers