Jon Chesman is a director in the Restructuring & Insolvency Practice Group based in the Leeds office.
He has a broad restructuring and insolvency practice and provides contentious and non-contentious insolvency advice to management teams, insolvency practitioners, sponsors, companies and creditors.
In particular, Jon has extensive experience in advising PE-backed groups in stressed or distressed scenarios, as well as acting for PE-houses, PE-portfolio entities and trade buyers in bolt-on acquisitions of distressed assets.
Jon was shortlisted in the Young Lawyer of the Year category of the Insider Young Professional Awards 2024 and has been ranked as an Associate to Watch in Chambers UK for the last 3 years. Commentators say Jon “can only be described as a practitioner with brilliant legal knowledge, and yet a very personable individual. He deserves the success he achieves, and works hard for his client”, “an individual that never ceases to impress” and “wise beyond his years and always very calm under pressure”.