For over 25 years, Alan served as chairman of the firm’s Committee on Opinion Letters Rendered in Commercial Transactions. He has been a member of the firm’s Professional Conduct Committee for nearly 30 years.
Client Work
Alan regularly represents institutional lenders and borrowers in loan transactions (including financings of receivables for government contractors), restructurings of problem financings (he has appeared in bankruptcy court on behalf of both creditors and debtors), and asset securitizations.
He also actively participates in venture capital transactions, intellectual property licensing arrangements, equipment leasing transactions, and merger and acquisition transactions. He has represented several professional sports teams in connection with their debt financing transactions.
Alan routinely delivers substantive non-consolidation opinions and true sale opinions in various structured financing transactions, both for clients for whom the Firm is handling the underlying transactions and for clients of other firms that look to Alan for his specialized knowledge in these areas.
Some of Alan’s recent major engagements are:
- Representation of a healthcare provider in a $900 million accounts receivable securitization facility, which requires, in addition to the customary negotiations concerning deal terms, the delivery of true sale and substantive non-consolidation opinions.
- Representation of a major distributor of wines and spirits in connection with its multi-bank approximately $400 million asset-based facility to finance its inventory and receivables.
- Representation of an AmLaw 100 law firm in multiple equipment leasing transactions (all of the law firm’s IT equipment).
