Jeff Hokanson

Jeff Hokanson is a commercial attorney in Ice Miller’s Business Group, with broad experience in matters involving all manner of contract formation and disputes. In this regard, he advises clients on a wide spectrum of issues related to their contractual relationships with suppliers, vendors and customers, including in particular secured transactions and other issues addressed by the Uniform Commercial Code. Jeff’s practice includes guiding and representing secured and unsecured lenders in the creation and enforcement of their loan documents and security instruments, and he has litigated commercial disputes in state and federal courts within Indiana. Secondarily, Jeff is experienced with disputes involving real estate, including enforcement of purchase agreements, easements, and commercial landlord tenant disputes.

Notably, Jeff is a career-long bankruptcy/insolvency law practitioner, having represented corporate debtors, creditor committees and trustees, landlords and tenants, and supplier/creditors in many of the major bankruptcy cases filed in Indiana, and in out-of-court workouts. Jeff has extensive experience representing individuals with significant direct liability or guarantee obligations arising from corporate insolvency proceedings. Jeff’s work in the insolvency field has included numerous asset purchase and sale transactions involving insolvent sellers, and representing the interests of parties to the transaction, or parties affected by those transactions.