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Jonathan Gill

Work Department
Corporate; Private Equity/Mergers & Acquisitions
Position
Jon Gill is partner in Proskauer’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group. Jon’s practice focuses on advising investment funds that make debt and equity investments in public and private companies, particularly in distressed and special situations. He provides comprehensive corporate, securities, and bankruptcy law advice throughout the lifecycle of transactions, from pre-commitment and execution to exit. His work includes representing creditor groups in both in-court and out-of-court reorganizations, plan fundings, and debtor-in-possession financings.
Jon also advises public and private clients on a wide range of corporate securities matters, including debt and equity tender offers, rights offerings, confidentiality issues and shareholder and inter-creditor agreements.
Since 2017, Jon has served as an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law, where he teaches a course on special situations.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
Proskauer Rose LLP’s advises clients on middle-market transactions across sports, technology, healthcare, real estate, and consumer goods. With a strong presence in New York and Los Angeles, the firm supports clients throughout the fund lifecycle, from formation to exits. Lauren Boglivi leads the team from New York and handles domestic and cross-border M&A for an extensive roster of financial sponsors, particularly those focused on healthcare, media and entertainment. Co-heads Daniel Ganitsky and Michael Ellis also advise from the New York office and offer particular experience in takeovers, joint ventures, and restructurings. From Los Angeles, Christopher Ahn has recently been active on multiple transactions in the food and drinks sector, while Ben Orlanski underpins his deal-making expertise with skill in corporate governance matters. Also LA-based, Kristian Herrmann’s varied mid-market capabilities include leveraged buyouts, investment deals, and portfolio company sell-side processes. Jonathan Gill and Robb Tretter joined from Ropes & Gray LLP in November 2024 and bring further capabilities in M&A.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Industry focus > Sport
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)