Overview

Joshua Gross is an associate in Mayer Brown’s Chicago office and a member of the firm’s Restructuring practice. He represents creditors, debtors, purchasers, and other interested parties in all aspects of in-court and out-of-court restructurings. Joshua also advises companies on a wide range of insolvency considerations in non-distressed settings including consumer finance, insurance, securitization, and real estate transactions.

In addition, Joshua regularly advises corporate trustees and administrative agents in a variety of matters, including with respect to new debt issuances, debt restructuring and refinancing, and the post-closing administration and wind-up of asset-backed securitizations.

Prior to joining Mayer Brown in 2017, Joshua served as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Mary Gorman in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of Illinois.

Areas of Focus

Practices

Experience

Joshua’s representative matters include:

  • GWG Holdings, Inc. and certain of its subsidiaries, a publicly-traded life settlements and alternative investments company with approximately $2.1 billion in debt at the time of filing, as debtors’ counsel, in connection with their chapter 11 cases.
  • The original administrative agent and lead lender, under a $200 million multi-lender first lien secured facility to FrontPoint Security Solutions, LLC, a major alarm security company, and its affiliates. This transaction was awarded “Industrials Deal of the Year” at The M&A Advisor’s 2021 Turnaround Awards.
  • The administrative agent and largest lender under the $500 million syndicated multi-lender pre-petition revolving credit facility to Brazos Electric Power Cooperative, Inc. in its chapter 11 case.
  • School Specialty, Inc., a leading provider of educational products and services to the Pre-K- 12th grade market in the U.S. and Canada, in its successful out-of-court restructuring of more than $300 million of debt and consensual sale of substantially all of its assets to an entity formed by TCW Asset Management Company, LLC, Cerberus Capital Management, and Lantern Capital Partners.

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Education

Northeastern Illinois University, BA, summa cum laude

University of Illinois, MBA
Academic Excellence Award

University of Illinois, JD, summa cum laude
Order of the Coif

Admissions

  • Illinois

Court

  • US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
  • US District Court for the Central District of Illinois
  • US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit