Jed Donaldson

Jed has experience guiding all types of stakeholders, including creditors, debtors, asset-purchasers, equipment lessors, trade vendors, committees, landlords, debtor-in-possession lenders,
trustees, and agents. He maintains a national practice and has appeared before bankruptcy and state courts in Virginia, Delaware, Texas, New York, New Jersey, Arizona, Florida, Washington, Massachusetts, and other venues.

Jed represents clients in many industries, including retail, aviation, coal, energy, construction, and hospitality. Jed has particular experience representing equipment finance, leasing, and manufacturing companies. Jed currently serves on the Complex Chapter 11 Local Rules Committee for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. 

Jed graduated cum laude from the University of Richmond School of Law, where he earned the American Bankruptcy Institute Medal of Excellence, was a senior staff member of the Journal of Law & Technology, and was awarded the CALI Excellence for the Future Awards for Corporate Fraud & Litigation and Ethics in Civil Litigation. While in law school, he served as an extern law clerk to Judge Kevin R. Huennekens of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia’s Richmond Division and as an intern law clerk to Magistrate Judge Dennis W. Dohnal of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia’s Richmond Division.

Jed is a regular speaker at the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors’ Annual Bankruptcy & Restructuring Conference and a contributing author to the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal.

• Unconditional Love, Inc. (d/b/a Hello Bello), et al. (Bankr. D. Del.) - counsel to equipment lessor and unsecured creditors' committee member.
• Nordic Aviation Capital Pte. Ltd., et al. (Bankr. E.D. Va.) - co-counsel to DIP lender, RSA party.
• Yellow Poplar Lumber Co. (Bankr. W.D. Va.) - counsel to asset purchaser of debtor’s mineral rights and royalty interests.
• Ascena Retail Group, Inc., et al. (Bankr. E.D. Va.) - counsel to foreign trade vendors and unsecured creditors’ committee member.
• Valaris plc, et al. (Bankr. S.D. Tex.) - counsel to debtors’ largest trade creditor and unsecured creditors’ committee member.
• Guitar Center, Inc., et al. (Bankr. E.D. Va.) - co-counsel to administrative and collateral agent for $325 million term loan DIP facility.
• JC Penney Co., Inc., et al. (Bankr. S.D. Tex.) - counsel to foreign trade vendors.
• Lucky Brand Dungarees, LLC, et al. (Bankr. D. Del.) - counsel to foreign trade vendors and unsecured creditors' committee member.
• Chinos Holdings, Inc. (J. Crew), et al. (Bankr. E.D. Va.) - counsel to foreign trade vendors and unsecured creditors’ committee member.
• Gymboree Group, Inc. (Bankr. E.D. Va.) - counsel to trade vendor and unsecured creditors’ committee member.
• Toys “R” Us, Inc., et al. (Bankr. E.D. Va.) - co-counsel to agent and collateral trustee for $375 million DIP facility to debtors’ Asian and European subsidiaries.
• A Southern Season, Inc., et al. (Bankr. E.D. N.C.) - counsel to debtors’ CEO and CFO in litigation with chapter 7 trustee.
• Penn Virginia Corp., et al. (Bankr. E.D. Va.) - co-counsel to unsecured creditors’ committee in chapter 11 cases of oil and gas producers in restructuring of $1.1 billion in prepetition debt.
• Alpha Natural Resources, Inc., et al. (Bankr. E.D. Va.) - co-counsel to asset purchaser in chapter 11 § 363 sale of debtors’ natural gas assets.
• Patriot Coal, et al. (Bankr. E.D. Va.) - counsel to asset purchaser acquiring substantially all assets of coal companies via chapter 11 plan sale and post-confirmation litigation, including enforcement of plan injunction.
• River City Renaissance, et al. (Bankr. E.D. Va.) - counsel to chapter 11 debtors in § 363 sale of multi-family housing portfolio backed by approximately $40 million in CMBS loans.
• James River Coal Co., et al. (Bankr. E.D. Va.) - co-counsel to asset purchaser acquiring substantially all assets of coal companies via chapter 11 § 363 sale.
• Virginia United Methodist Homes of Williamsburg, Inc. (Bankr. E.D. Va.) - counsel to sponsor, DIP lender, and exit-finance lender in chapter 11 reorganization of retirement community with $133 million in prepetition debt.

Recognition

Virginia Super Lawyers “Rising Star," Creditor/Debtor Rights, 2015-2020

Virginia Business “Legal Elite,” Bankruptcy/Creditors’ Rights, 2019-2023

Clerkships

Honorable Frank J. Santoro, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Norfolk Division

Education

University of Richmond School of Law, J.D., cum laude

University of Richmond, B.A.

Admissions

Virginia

U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Western District of Virginia

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. District Court, Western District of Virginia

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit

• American Bankruptcy Institute, Secured Credit Committee Co-Chair
• Association of Insolvency & Restructuring Advisors
• Richmond Bar Association, Bankruptcy Section
• VCU, Massey Cancer Center, Community Advisory Board of Directors