Jordan E. Elkin

Jordan E. Elkin is a Restructuring Partner in the Capital Structure Solutions Practice. Based in New York, he has extensive experience advising public and private companies, sponsors and their portfolio companies and lenders in connection with in-court and out-of-court restructurings, including sophisticated chapter 11 proceedings. He counsels clients across various industry sectors, including technology, energy, transportation, healthcare, consumer and retail, and provides strategic guidance on liability management transactions and distressed acquisitions and divestitures.

Notable experience prior to joining Simpson Thacher includes advising:

• Pretium Packaging, L.L.C. and affiliates in their voluntary prepackaged chapter 11 proceedings in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey, a first-of-its-kind expedited prepackaged case in the District
• GLAS Trust Company LLC, as agent to a co-operative group of institutional lenders, in the chapter 11 restructurings of BYJU’s Alpha, Epic! Creations, Neuron Fuel and Tangible Play and related multinational enforcement efforts
• Cineworld Group plc and affiliates, the second-largest cinema chain globally, in their chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas and related cross-border restructuring implementation
• Wheels Up Experience Inc., a provider of on-demand private aviation services, in a debt and equity capital raise, in strategic partnership with a consortium of investors led by Delta Air Lines, Certares Management LLC, Knighthead Capital Management LLC, and Cox Enterprises
• Prowler Super Holding Corp. and affiliates (PSS Industrial Group), an oilfield services provider and value-added distributor in the energy and industrial industries, in connection with its out-of-court restructuring
• Artivo Surfaces, a Transom Capital portfolio company, in its successful acquisition of Walker Zanger, a leading luxury stone and tile distributor, through a section 363 private sale
• Arcadia Consumer Healthcare, a Bansk Group portfolio company, as stalking horse bidder in its successful section 363 purchase of substantially all of the assets of Avrio Health, Purdue’s consumer health products subsidiary
• Northvolt AB and affiliates in their chapter 11 cases filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas and related cross-border restructuring implementation
• SmileDirectClub, Inc. and affiliates in their chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas
• Washington Prime Group Inc. and affiliates in their prearranged chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas
• RGN-Group Holdings, LLC, and affiliates (Regus) in their chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware
• APC Automotive Technologies Intermediate Holdings, LLC and affiliates in their prepackaged chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware
• Destination Maternity Corporation and affiliates, the largest national omni-channel maternity apparel retailer, in their chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware
• California Pizza Kitchen, Inc. and affiliates in their prearranged chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas
• Cyxtera Technologies Inc. and affiliates in their prearranged chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey
• Carestream Health, Inc. and affiliates in their prepackaged chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware
• Neiman Marcus Group LTD LLC and affiliates in their prearranged chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, restructuring over $5.5 billion of funded indebtedness in under five months
• Central Security Group, Inc., one of the nation’s largest providers of home and business security and automation, in an out-of-court debt-for-equity exchange

Jordan earned his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, in 2019 where he was Order of the Coif, Associate Editor of the California Law Review and Senior Executive Editor of the Berkeley Journal of International Law. He was also recognized with the Jurisprudence Award in Secured Transactions and Criminal Law and received the Prosser Prize in Advanced Legal Writing, Civil Procedure and Property. Jordan earned his B.A. from the University of Michigan, with Distinction, in 2014. He is admitted to practice in New York.