Mr. Jonathan Hayes concentrates his practice in bankruptcy and corporate - business litigation. He has represented many Chapter 11 debtors, businesses and individuals, and effected many successful reorganization plans. Mr. Hayes’ recent chapter 11 cases include representing a clothing manufacturer with 110 employees, a specialty vodka manufacturer, six adult health care facilities, a 66 room hotel in Laguna Beach, a small trucking company, a medical clinic, a company that owed two Baskin Robbins stores, a former major league baseball player with $40 million in assets; a company which had 225 lawsuits pending against it on the date of filing being defended by the debtor’s insurance company; a company which owned 20 oil wells; a company which owned a large hotel in Culver City which was sold during the case for $25 million, a “dot com” company; a Condominium Homeowners Association fending off a $9 million judgment creditor; a furniture manufacturing company ($4 million annual sales); a chain of carpet stores ($10 million annual sales); an employee leasing company ($30 million in annual sales); a wireless entertainment equipment sales company; a litigation attorney; a sunglass wholesaling company; a bait tank and machine shop; and a small commercial center. From 2012 through mid-2016, Mr. Hayes has filed or otherwise taken over approximately 143 chapter 11 cases including 112 cases for individuals primarily trying to save their homes and other real property. In the past, he has represented three franchisees in the Econo-Lube bankruptcy filing adversary proceedings for each demanding more than $10 million in total and settling each successfully. He represented the Creditor’s Committee in the Lucy’s LaundryMart and SBB Roofing chapter 11 cases. He was lead counsel for the Creditor's Committee in the Breath Asure, Inc. Chapter 11 and the B.C. Oil, Inc. Chapter 11.

Mr. Hayes has prosecuted and defended about twenty bankruptcy appeals to the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel, the district court, and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Mr. Hayes has prosecuted and defended complaints to declare debts non-dischargeable, to deny the discharge and other bankruptcy related litigation matters. He has defended several fraudulent conveyance actions brought by trustees in so-called Ponzi schemes. He has filed many Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 petitions for clients and has handled many bankruptcies that are commenced because of tax problems of the debtors.

Loyola University School of Law (J.D., 1977)

Loyola University (B.A., 1971)

Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution of the Pepperdine University School of Law, 30 hours (Certificate received 1995)

Bankruptcy & Insolvency

Business Organizations, Bankruptcy, Taxes, Civil Procedure, Contracts, and UCC.