JESSEY KREHL
Member of the Florida and New York Bar
Having served as a summer law clerk for Chief Judge Mark Walker in the Northern District of Florida and an intern in the Director’s Office of Bureau of Competition at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., Jessey Krehl seamlessly navigates extremely complex business law and restructuring issues. Clients can expect solutions other attorneys simply have not thought of from him and the Firm.
BIO
Credentials
Experience
BIO
Jessey Krehl’s vast experience at Pack Law has provided him with a competitive advantage over his peers, resulting in a tangible client benefit that is measurable through efficiency and quality. As an Associate at Pack Law who began working at the Firm since it opened its doors in 2020, Mr. Krehl has represented debtors, stalking horse bidders, debtor-in-possession lenders, liquidating trustees, unsecured creditor committees, as well as individual secured and unsecured creditors and equityholders in bankruptcy, and both plaintiffs and defendants in litigation matters.
Mr. Krehl is highly regarded in Florida and nationally. He was one of only eight statewide chosen as a 2024-2026 Florida Business Law Section “Fellow” and assists teaching the Applied Bankruptcy Class at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. The Chief Bankruptcy Judge of the Southern District of Florida said it best and succinctly: “I am impressed.”
Mr. Krehl graduated from Florida State University with majors in Physics and Astrophysics and Religion. He then attended the University of Florida Levin College of Law, graduating magna cum laude where he earned the CALI Award in Creditors’ Remedies and Bankruptcy and the highest grade in each of Applied Bankruptcy and Advanced Contracts: Sales of Goods and Real Property.
Credentials
JD, University of Florida, magna cum laude
BS, Physics and Astrophysics and Religion, Florida State University
Florida State Bar
New York State Bar
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Florida
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Colorado
Industry Accolades:
Fellow, Business Law Section of the Florida Bar(One of Eight Selected Statewide, 2024-2026)
Annual Adjunct Professor Assistant, University of Florida Levin College of Law, Applied Bankruptcy
Chair, American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, Bankruptcy Law Committee (2022-2023)
Member, The Order of the Coif
Member, American Bankruptcy Institute
Member, Southern District of Florida Bankruptcy Bar Association
Experience
Debtor Representations
Hurdl
Represented Hurdl Inc., a leading live events marketing company through which communications between artists and brands and their customers, respectively, are driven through high-tech LED bracelets, in its prepackaged chapter 11 case in the Southern District of New York, through which Hurdl shed its multi-million dollar liability and effectuated a debt-to-equity plan that confirmed in only 37 days.
Aloft Brickell
Pack Law currently represents Mary Brickell Village Hotel, LLC, the owner of the Aloft Marriott Hotel located in Miami FL, in its Chapter 11 case.
Metronomic Holdings, LLC
Pack Law currently represents the limited liability holding company, in its Chapter 11 case, through which it has so far effectuated the sale of over 20 parcels valued excess of $20 million.
Bensalz Productions
Moved chapter 11 case venue to the Southern District of New York defeating argument that equityholder contacts to the jurisdiction of Florida was enough nexus to keep the case pending in Florida.
Banyan Cay Resort & Golf
Represented debtor in possession in chapter 11 in $115 million hotel and golf course development, ultimately sold to the Witkoff Group through the effectuation of a credit bid process.
Senior Nannies
Represents Senior Nannies and Healthcare Holdings of Florida in their Chapter 11 cases, which entities operate a private in-home health services operation, employing over 1,400 healthcare workers across dozens of locations around the state of Florida.
Star Transportation
Represents Star Transportation PA Inc., a trucking business based out of Miami, Florida, in its effort to restructure over $27 million of debt through a going-concern reorganization of a 400+ fleet of trucks and trailers
Unsecured Creditor Committee Representations
Red Lobster
Florida Counsel to Red Lobster UCC
Bang Energy
Currently representing UCC member and class representative for class action plaintiffs alleging purchases induced by fraudulent labeling.
DIP LENDER, BUYER AND CREDITOR REPRESENTATIONS
Gorham Paper
Represented the Behrens Investment Group, as DIP Lender and Stalking Horse Bidder and ultimately, the Successful Buyer, in its acquisition of the Gorham Paper manufacturing mill, a co-generation facility previously managed and owned by Lynn Tilton and The Zohar Funds, located in Gorham, New Hampshire.
Lemnature Aquafarms Corp.
Currently representing principal of Taconic Capital, owner of the largest bond in a multimillion dollar, multi-creditor dispute in a Chapter 7 biotech failure based out of Central Florida.
Virginia True Corporation
Represented seller and holder of seller financing note in a 900 acre Virginia property, challenging an insider-sponsored 363 process, defeating exclusivity and soliciting creditor sponsored plan, ultimately resulting in a competing debtor liquidating plan that confirmed on creditors’ terms, capturing millions of dollars of value for creditor in defeat of insider sale stalking horse.
Tree Lane (Hadid)
Represented DIP Lender related to Los Angeles Mansion.
State Court Business Litigation
Bank of New York (Florida State Court)
Ongoing lawsuit against Bank of New York related to wrongful, unnoticed foreclosure against luxury condominium in Sunny Isles, Florida.