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Categories: Banking & Finance Banking & Insolvency This title is part of the Bankruptcy Primer and Smart Management list. Of Interest: The Executive Guide to Corporate Bankruptcy - Second Edition Bankruptcy Investing: How to Profit from Distressed Companies Corporate Recovery: Companies in Distress Corporate Turnaround: How Managers Turn Losers Into Winners! Distressed Securities: Analyzing and Evaluating Market Potential and Investment Risk Logic and Limits of Bankruptcy Law Taking Charge: Management Guide to Troubled Companies and Turnarounds The PRC Enterprise Bankruptcy Law: The People's Work in Progress The Turnaround Manager's Handbook Why Companies Fail: Strategies for Detecting, Avoiding, and Profiting from Bankruptcy

Navigating Today's Environment: The Directors' and Officers' Guide to Restructuring is a colossal undertaking with a unique format. Consulting Editor John Wm. "Jack" Butler, Jr., co-leader of Skadden's global Corporate Restructuring practice, convened the leading voices of the U.S. restructuring community to engage and inform directors and officers of U.S. corporations. The result is a series of forty five independent "conversations" with veteran financial advisors, investment bankers, investors, lawyers, and turnaround managers in the restructuring community. Each contributor writes with the objective of promoting corporate governance best practices. Each voice speaks to those companies that are undergoing rapid change and/or are at risk of becoming, or have already become, distressed business enterprises. It is intended to help facilitate corporate preparedness and is best consumed before it is needed.

As Mr. Butler says in his introductory remarks, "....one of the greatest contributions directors and officers can make to their company and their stakeholders is to detect and mitigate distress at its earliest stages."

John Wm. ("Jack") Butler, Jr.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, & Flom LLP
Partner - Corporate Restructuring

Jack Butler co-leads Skadden, Arps' global corporate restructuring practice where he focuses primarily on advising companies and investors with respect to complex business reorganizations, troubled-company M&A, debt restructurings and financing matters, including cross-border transactions; and advising officers and directors on corporate governance and fiduciary duty matters. He has assisted many global businesses restructure outside the US, execute cross-border financing and privatization transactions, and divest various business lines and entities. His representative engagements include transformational restructurings in the airline, automotive, energy, healthcare, manufacturing, media and telecommunications, retail and utilities industries. Mr. Butler also participates regularly in pro bono legal programs, including acting as a guardian ad litem in contested guardianship cases in Cook County, Illinois.

Mr. Butler was named one of the decade's forty most influential lawyers by The National Law Journal in March 2010, and is one of two practicing lawyers and ten inductees in the inaugural class of the Turnaround, Restructuring and Distressed Investing Industry Hall of Fame. He was one of The American Lawyer's Dealmakers of the Year in 2010 and 2004, and also received the ILO Client Choice Award 2010 based on client nominations for excellent client care and quality of services rendered. In 2008, Mr. Butler received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, which is awarded to Americans who exemplify outstanding qualities in both their personal and professional lives, while continuing to preserve the richness of their particular heritage.

Mr. Butler has been regularly recognized as a leading lawyer by Chambers Global; Chambers USA; The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers; Who's Who Legal USA; Who's Who Illinois; The Best Lawyers in America; Euromoney and Legal Media Group's Expert Guide to the World's Leading Insolvency and Restructuring Lawyers; IFLR 1000; Global Counsel (PLC Which Lawyer?); and The Lawdragon 500: Leading Lawyers in America. He also has been included regularly in the K&A Restructuring Register, the peer group listing of the top restructuring attorneys and financial advisors in the United States, and Turnarounds & Workouts' ranking of the outstanding restructuring lawyers in America.

In addition to his consulting editor responsibilities for Navigating Today's Environment: The Directors' and Officers' Guide To Restructuring, Mr. Butler has published frequently on corporate governance best practices including, most recently, Preserving State Corporate Governance Law in Chapter 11: Maximizing Value Through Traditional Fiduciaries (18 Am Bankr Inst L Rev 337 [2010]) and Corporate Governance of Troubled Companies and the Role of Restructuring Counsel (63 Bus Law 855 [2008]).

Mr. Butler served as Chairman of the Turnaround Management Association for two years in 1996 and 1997, and is a fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy and International Insolvency Institute. A past director of the American Bankruptcy Institute, he founded INSOL's Group of 36 and has served many other industry organizations, including the American Board of Certification, Commercial Finance Association Education Foundation and the New York Institute of Credit.

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