John A. McKenna, Jr.

Managing Director
Miller Buckfire

John A. McKenna, Jr. is a Managing Director and Co-Head of Miller Buckfire. Over the course of his career, Mr. McKenna has advised clients in a broad range of industries on financial restructuring, M&A and financing transactions. Representative experience includes: advising the ad hoc group of first lien noteholders of Caesars Entertainment Operating Company, iPayment on its deleveraging exchange offers and credit facility amendments, Unitek Global Services on its restructuring, LodgeNet Interactive on its restructuring, the unsecured creditors’ committee of Delta Airlines, Deutsche Bank as $850 million (cdn.) standby underwriter of Air Canada’s plan of reorganization, and the Retirement Systems of Alabama in its purchase of US Airways.

Mr. McKenna previously served as co-head of the eastern region of Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin’s financial restructuring group, where he was responsible for business in the Eastern United States, Latin America and the United Kingdom. Prior to that, Mr. McKenna was a member of the financial restructuring group at Wasserstein Perella & Co.

Mr. McKenna previously served on the board of directors of Gategroup Holding, Haights Cross Communications, Second Market, Inc. and US Airways. During his board service, each of these companies completed significant business transformations and/or financial restructurings. Mr. McKenna graduated, with honors, from Claremont McKenna College in 1989.