Mark A.
Mintz
- Position
- Partner
- Office
- New Orleans
Mark Mintz is co-leader of the firm’s bankruptcy and restructuring team. He advises debtors, creditors, and other stakeholders in bankruptcy, restructuring, and insolvency-related matters.
Mark is co-leader of Jones Walker’s bankruptcy and restructuring team, a national practice whose attorneys regularly handle matters larger and more intricate than those typically seen by firms of comparable size. His own practice centers on debtor and debtor-adjacent representations, with a particular focus on cases marked by financial complexity, intense public scrutiny, and business and reputational consequences that reach well beyond the balance sheet.
Among recent matters, Mark served as lead debtor’s counsel in the mass tort Chapter 11 of a major archdiocese in the southeastern United States, one of the most closely watched religious-institution bankruptcies in the nation. The case gave rise to novel legal questions, contested plan issues, and multiple appeals, and concluded with a resolution comprising hundreds of millions of dollars, including funds for disbursement to abuse survivors, a related bond issue, significant real estate transactions, the sale of a healthcare system, and the transfer of a senior housing authority. In a separate engagement, he represented an association of parishes in the bankruptcy of a New England diocese, which produced the first mass tort bankruptcy plan confirmed following the US Supreme Court’s decision in Purdue Pharma.
Previously, Mark represented a large engineering company on a $25 million claim in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of a Houston-based oil E&P (exploration and production) company that was, at the time, the largest bankruptcy filing in the United States. He successfully recovered 95% of the claim’s value for his client.
Mark has represented clients with interests, investments, and operations in numerous industries and economic sectors, including oil and gas, energy, maritime, banking and financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, construction, and hospitality. He routinely advises debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, creditors’ committees, Chapter 11 trustees, and debtor-in-possession (DIP) lenders in courts across the country. Given the size and scope of his engagements, Mark routinely assembles and directs effective, focused teams that combine the firm’s experienced attorneys with clients’ financial advisors, investment bankers, and other outside professionals, enabling him to coordinate strategy across every workstream of a restructuring.
Mark also works closely with the firm’s corporate finance attorneys on pre-bankruptcy planning and out-of-court restructurings. He believes the best restructuring outcomes begin early — ideally a year or more before financial distress comes to a head — when companies retain the widest range of options and, in many cases, can avoid a Chapter 11 filing altogether. Whether refinancing a struggling business or preparing a company for an orderly reorganization, Mark helps clients treat restructuring as a strategic tool rather than a last resort.
In recognition of the quality of his counsel and his dedication to client service, Mark has been listed by Chambers USA as a Band 1 bankruptcy and restructuring lawyer since 2021. He is also recognized by Super Lawyers, Benchmark Litigation, and New Orleans Magazine as among the nation’s top litigation and bankruptcy practitioners. Mark also was a member of the team that earned the Turnaround Management Association’s 2023 “Mid-Size Company Turnaround & Transaction of the Year.”
Mark joined Jones Walker after serving as a law clerk to the Honorable Carl J. Barbier of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Committed to the ongoing education of attorneys at every stage of their careers, Mark serves as an adjunct professor of law at Tulane Law School, where he teaches business reorganizations, and writes and speaks frequently on a wide range of bankruptcy and restructuring topics.
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