Professional Biography

Alan D. Smith Partner

  • Seattle

    D +1.206.359.8410

    F +1.206.359.9410

    Seattle

    1201 Third Avenue, Suite 4900

    Seattle, WA 98101-3099

    +1.206.359.8410

    ADSmith@perkinscoie.com

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Overview

Experience

Bankruptcy & Workouts

London Fog Group

General bankruptcy counsel to privately owned licensing and distributing company, including auction sales of assets and resolutions of inter-creditor disputes. (D. Nev.)

Advance Science Technologies

General bankruptcy counsel to corporate family in complex prepackaged restructuring. Plan confirmed less than six weeks from filing. (S.D.N.Y.)

State Fish Company

General bankruptcy counsel to privately owned fish wholesaler. (C.D. Cal.)

Pederson’s Fryer Farms

General bankruptcy counsel to family owned poultry processor, resulting in sale of business to Foster Farms. (W.D. WA)

Troutman Investment Company d/b/a Troutmanʹs Emporium

General bankruptcy counsel to family owned chain of 34 retail stores, resulting in liquidation sales and payout of over 65% to general unsecured creditors. (D. Ore.)

Qimonda

Counsel to Fortune 50 U.S. manufacturer in dispute with German insolvency trustee over license rights; client and other U.S. entities obtained leading opinion from Fourth Circuit on Chapter 15, license rights, and §365(n). (E.D. VA; 4th Cir.)

Abeinsa Holdings/Abengoa

Counsel to U.S. project owner in Chapter 11 and Chapter 15 cases of failed multinational contractor. (D. Del.)

American Airlines

Counsel to The Boeing Company as a major creditor and member of the Unsecured Creditors’ Committee. (S.D.N.Y.)

Peninsula Airlines

Counsel to largest lessor of aircraft to regional airline. Obtained Chapter 11 trustee. (D. Alaska)

Vanalco

General bankruptcy counsel to owner of aluminum smelter. (W.D.WA)

Forest Products

Acquisition of Canadian and U.S. Facilities by Paper Manufacturing Company

Corporate - Represented a privately held paper manufacturing company in its acquisition of Canadian and U.S. manufacturing facilities.

Trillium Corporation

Represented privately held forest products and investment holding company in numerous matters, including multinational project finance of OSB plant in Venezuela, restructures of equity and debt of subsidiaries with Chilean and Argentine forest lands and operations, and domestic real estate and timber financing and refinancing transactions.

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  • Washington
  • California
  • U.S. Supreme Court
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Education

  • The University of Chicago Law School, J.D., cum laude, Order of the Coif, 1979, Associate Editor, University of Chicago Law Review, 1977 - 79
  • Princeton University, A.B., Chemistry, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1974