Practices:

• Litigation
  • Bankruptcy, Creditors' Rights and Insolvency-Related Litigation
  • Business Disputes / Commercial

Industries

• Distressed Transactions, Workouts and Bankruptcy

Experience

John McJunkin's practice focuses on business bankruptcies and commercial litigation. Mr. McJunkin works extensively with creditors in protecting their rights during workouts, litigation, foreclosures, and bankruptcy.

On behalf of his clients, Mr. McJunkin regularly coordinates bankruptcy representation and related litigation in jurisdictions across the nation.

Mr. McJunkin's commercial litigation experience includes the prosecution and defense of numerous lawsuits and arbitrations arising out of disputes related to various lending issues as well as contractual matters, real estate disputes, franchise issues, title insurance matters and business torts. In particular, Mr. McJunkin has considerable experience litigating technology licensing issues, sales of assets and cash collateral matters in the context of Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 bankruptcies.

Mr. McJunkin has been identified as one of America's Leading Lawyers for Bankruptcy Litigation by Chambers USA.  For the past two years, he has also been named a “Super Lawyer” in Virginia and the District of Columbia.

Notable Engagements

• Lead counsel for senior secured lender in a converted Chapter 7 case involving $95 million in secured loans.
• Coordinated auction sale of going concern in Chapter 7 and litigated 506(c) and administrative claim issues related to operations of debtor.
• Lead U.S. counsel in the loan workout/restructuring of a multinational corporation with substantial assets in Argentina and Brazil.
• Negotiated treatment of $260 million in secured debt in a proposed pre-arranged plan of reorganization.
• Lead bankruptcy and litigation counsel on behalf of a securitized loan servicer on $300+ million in loans secured by commercial real estate in multiple states.
• Lead counsel for vendor financier in Chapter 11 cases of telecommunication companies around the country (California, Washington, D.C., New York, Colorado, Delaware, Arizona, and Virginia).
• Lead lender's counsel on numerous HUD-insured loans involving litigation and bankruptcy related to large apartment complexes in Virginia, Illinois, South Carolina, Connecticut, and the District of Columbia.
• Lead counsel for telecommunications manufacturer in connection with sale of updated telecommunication infrastructure system to Puerto Rican telecom company that filed Chapter 11.
• National coordinating counsel for bankruptcy matters for an international hotel franchising and management company.

Education

• J.D., University of Cincinnati 1987 Order of the Barristers
• B.A., Hampden - Sydney College 1984 summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Admitted

• District of Columbia
• Maryland
• North Carolina
• Virginia