Jon Gill is a partner in Proskauer’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group. Jon’s practice focuses on advising investment funds that make equity and debt investments in private and public 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.
Jon also advises public and private clients on a wide range of corporate securities matters, including with respect to trading issues, tender offers, rights offerings, confidentiality issues and shareholder and inter-creditor agreements.
Jon’s practice includes representing creditors with respect to enforcement issues, in and out-of-court reorganizations, plan fundings, §363 transactions and DIP financings.
Since 2017, Jon has served as an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law, where he teaches a course on special situations.
- Represented BP Energy Partners in connection with its investments in Novitech, LLC and Smartwires, Inc.
- Represented Madison River Capital in connection with various portfolio company investments including in Follett Corporation, PM Pediatrics, Autism Learning Partners, Community Based Care, Guar Resources, Inc., Legacy Sports, Inc., Sinterfire, Inc., and NE-XT Technologies.
- Represented BC Partners in its $150m convertible preferred unit investment in ContextLogic, a public company.
Education
- Adelaide University, LL.B. (Hons)
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Columbia Law School, LL.M.
James Kent Scholar
Admissions & Qualifications
- New York
Awards & Recognition
The Legal 500 United States: M&A Corporate & Commercial: Private Equity Buyouts: 2025
The Legal 500 United States: M&A Corporate & Commercial: Private Equity Buyouts: M&A Middle Market (Up to $500M) 2025
Matters
Prior Firm Experience
- Represented Sixth Street Partners-backed Legends in connection with its $2.3bn acquisition and related financing of ASM Global, a venue management company and producer of live event experiences.
- Represented the limited partners of Arevon Energy a multibillion dollar infrastructure fund in replacing and insourcing the fund’s general partner to create a joint venture renewables IPP with over 4.5GW in operation.
- Represented Sixth Street Partners in connection with its acquisition of a controlling interest in Legends Hospitality.
- Represented a NY-based hedge fund in respect of its investments in EFH/EFIH (TXU) and its consortium bid for the majority interest in Oncor, the Dallas-area regulated electric utility.
- Represented a NY-based hedge fund in connection with preferred equity PIPE to First Energy Corporation, and CenterPoint.
- Represented Flight Centre Travel Group Limited in various acquisitions of travel-related providers in North America, including Liberty Travel, Inc.
- Represented Blackstone Tactical Opportunities Advisors in its preferred equity investment in Natural Resource Partners, L.P., a NYSE-listed MLP.
- Represented Goldman, Sachs & Co. in a number of structured equity investments in the telecommunications, data center and real estate industries.
- Represented Gawker Media in its §363 auction process and sale to Univision.
- Represented Thunderbird Resources Equity, Inc. in its $250m acquisition of a minority interest in a regasification facility in Mississippi.
- Represented American Media in the sale of several nationally recognized magazine titles.
- Represented a distressed private equity firm in connection with its $1.35bn bid to acquire the operating assets of a bankrupt owner and operator of power plants in the Boston area.
- Represented a publicly held savings bank in the disposition of an approximately $1.4bn commercial loan portfolio.