Jeffrey M. Levinson, Partner

Business Reorganizations and Financial Restructurings

Jeffrey is experienced in all aspects of reorganization practice, having represented debtors, creditors' committees, secured and unsecured creditors, agented bank groups, individual banks, debtor in possession lenders, acquirors, and investment banks in workouts, restructurings, recapitalizations, bankruptcies and structuring of mergers and acquisitions of distressed assets in and out of bankruptcy. Jeffrey has worked on restructurings in a number of different industries, including manufacturing, retail, insurance, transportation, internet, real estate, mining, lodging and entertainment. Jeffrey was the 2004/2005 chair of the Bankruptcy & Commercial Law Section of the Cleveland Bar Association and was a Vice-President and Member of the Board of Trustees of the Cleveland Restoration Society. He was designated by Turnaround & Workouts as one of the twelve outstanding young bankruptcy lawyers nationally in 2000. Jeffrey has received an AV® peer review rating indicating a Very High to Preeminent Legal Ability rating and a Very High General Ethical Standards rating. He has co-chaired the Cleveland Bar Association’s Wm. J. O'Neill Bankruptcy Institute 1999 and was a member of the Special Legislative Committee of the Cleveland Bar Association’s Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section for Senate Bill 540 --- Bankruptcy Amendments Act of 1993. In addition, Jeffrey is a 1998 graduate of the Harvard Law School’s Negotiation Workshop.

In 1990, Jeffrey graduated cum laude from Case Western Reserve University Law School. He received his B.A. from Northwestern University in 1987. Jeffrey practiced at Hahn Loeser + Parks LLP and Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Arnoff LLP and from 2002 through 2009 he was a co-founder of a boutique law firm. Currently, Jeffrey heads Levinson LLP.