Michael W. Jones

Michael W. Jones is a partner in the Corporate Practice of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP. Mr. Jones concentrates his practice in mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions. He regularly represents a variety of private equity funds in connection with new platform and minority investments, add-on acquisitions, senior and mezzanine credit facilities, recapitalizations, restructurings and exit transactions in a wide range of industries, including extensive transactional and financing experience in the waste services industry. Mr. Jones also does general corporate work on behalf of the portfolio companies for such private equity funds. Mr. Jones also has a broad range of transactional experience in complex corporate restructurings and bankruptcies, including representing debtors and buyers in Section 363 sales as well representing a variety of official creditors’ committees.

Mr. Jones earned his law degree in 1999 from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. He also pursued doctoral studies in economics at Washington University in St. Louis. Mr. Jones graduated, summa cum laude, from Missouri State University in 1993 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics, mathematics and philosophy with distinction in the Honors College.

Mr. Jones also was an adjunct professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where he taught a course on bankruptcy. He is admitted to the bar in Illinois (2001) and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.