Jonathan P. Friedland

Jonathan P. Friedland, born on September 13, 1970 in Suffern, New York, is an American attorney, legal scholar/author, and entrepreneur and is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School (1994). He is the grandson of David B. Friedland.
Friedland’s seminal treatises are Strategic Alternatives For and Against Distressed Businesses and Commercial Bankruptcy Litigation. Friedland has authored over 100 articles that have been cited in academic journals such as the Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal, the Fordham Law Review, the Kentucky Law Journal, the Michigan Journal of Private Equity & Venture Capital Law, the Minnesota Law Review, the Review of Financial Studies, the Stanford Journal of Law & Business, the University of Illinois Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, and the Virginia Law Review.
Friedland joined the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis in 2000. During his tenure, Friedland had a leading role in representing several high-profile companies in chapter 11 bankruptcy, including Cable & Wireless; Globe Manufacturing Corp.; HomeLife Corp.; Musicland Holding Corp.; Polymer Group, Inc.; and W.R Grace.
Other chapter 11 cases in which he served as lead counsel to the debtor have included Agri-Fine, Inc.; Chellino Crane, Inc.; GEM Hospitality (d/b/a/ as the Pere Marquette Hotel & Convention Center); Home Owners Bargain Outlet; Hydraulic Technologies, Inc.
Friedland was part of the team of attorneys that represented Mar-Bow Value Partners LLC (an entity controlled by Jay Alix, founder of AlixPartners) in 2019 against McKinsey & Co. in the Chapter 11 case of power plant operator Edison Mission Energy.
Friedland was an early entrant into the area of representing commercial litigation funding firms in the United States. In 2016, he represented Gerchen Keller Capital, LLC in its $26.2 million purchase of a portion of the trustee’s net recovery from a $213 million judgment against The Renco Group, Inc. and Ira L. Rennert following a jury trial in federal court in New York, in the bankruptcy case of Magnesium Corporation of America and Renco Metals Inc. He has since represented some of the largest participants in the burgeoning field of third-party litigation funding.
Friedland served in 2006 as the inaugural “Clayton Center for Entrepreneurial Law Visiting Professor” at the University of Tennessee College of Law, where he taught courses on corporate law (covering, among other topics, entity formation, fiduciary duties, securities regulation, and mergers and acquisitions) and chapter 11 restructurings.
Friedland served from 2007 through 2009 as an Adjunct Professor of Strategic Management, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. In this capacity, co-taught (with James H.M. Sprayregen) course titled “Failure - Grave to Cradle Corporate Restructuring.”
Friedland is founder and CEO of DailyDAC, LLC, a company he founded in 2010.

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