Taylor Jones

Associate New York
Taylor Jones

Taylor Jones is an associate in the Restructuring Department of Weil’s New York office. 

Prior to joining Weil, Taylor served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Robert D. Drain in the Southern District of New York, and previously served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Brian D. Lynch in the Western District of Washington. Taylor received his J.D. from the University of Oregon School of Law, where he graduated Order of the Coif and served as an associate editor on the Oregon Law Review. Taylor received his B.S. in Chemistry, magna cum laude and with honors, from Appalachian State University.

Taylor has been a member of teams representing various parties in a number of restructurings, including:

Debtor/Company-Side Experience:

  • Terraform Labs Pte. Ltd., a Singapore-based software developer in its chapter 11 cases, involving billions of dollars in claims asserted by the S.E.C. in ongoing litigation. Terraform Labs is a software development company that develops and supports (i) software used to create and run the Terra blockchain network, a unique decentralized digital ledger of peer-to-peer transactions involving digital assets, and (ii) an entire suite of tools, protocols, and applications that operate on the Terra blockchain.
  • Sunlight Financial Holdings Inc. and its debtor affiliates, a leading solar financial services company, in connection with its prepackaged chapter 11 cases and acquisition by a consortium of established investors in the solar financing industry and its senior secured lender.
  • Ruby Pipeline, LLC, a developer and operator of interstate natural gas pipeline and supplier of natural gas to consumers in California, Nevada, and the Pacific Northwest, in connection with its chapter 11 case.
  • Kabbage, Inc. d/b/a KServicing, and its debtor-affiliates, an online loan service provider for over $7 billion of loans issued to small businesses under the Paycheck Protection Program, in their chapter 11 cases.

Creditor/Sponsor/Other Party Experience:

  • An ad hoc group of secured noteholders in the chapter 11 cases of 99 Cents Only Stores, a discount retailer.
  • DIRECTV as a major commercial counterparty and creditor in connection with the chapter 11 cases of Diamond Sports Group, a regional sports network affiliate of Sinclair Broadcasting Group. Diamond operates 19 individual regional sports networks that serve as the TV home to more than half of all MLB, NHL and NBA teams based in the United States.
  • Digital Currency Group, Inc. (parent of Genesis Capital) in connection with the chapter 11 cases of Genesis Global Holdco, LLC with approximately $3.4 billion in debt, as well as the BVI Liquidation Proceeding and chapter 15 case of Three Arrows Capital, Ltd. with approximately $3.5 billion in debt.
  • The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in connection with the chapter 11 cases of Cineworld Group PLC with approximately $5.35 billion in total funded debt obligations.