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

News

Insights

  • 09.2018
    Strategic Alternatives - Receiverships and Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors
    Lawyer Publications

    Westlaw
    Deskbook.

  • 12.2016
    Washington Secured Transactions Under Revised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code: Forms and Practice Manual
    Lawyer Publications

    Data Trace Publishing

    Deskbook (first published in 2002; annual updates since).

  • 10.2015
    Washington Secured Transactions Under Revised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code: Forms and Practice Manual

    Data Trace Publishing

    Deskbook (first published in 2002; annual updates since)
  • 2010
    Debtor-in-Possession and Exit Financing
    Lawyer Publications

    "Financing the Debtor in a Difficult Market" Inside the Minds Series, Aspatore Books

  • 03.30.2010
    Third Circuit Curtails Secured Lenders' Credit Bid Rights in Philadelphia Newspapers Case
    Updates
    The ability to credit bid is a valuable right for secured lenders.  With a credit bid, a secured lender may participate in an auction of assets by bidding up to the amount of its secured claim merely by giving credit against the secured claim – that is, the lender need not come up with any additional cash in order to compete in the sale. 
  • 10.2015
    Ethics Issues for Land Use Lawyers
    Land Use Law: Current Issues in Subdivision, Annexation and Zoning
    NBI Seminars
  • 02.2014
    Governance Issues for Troubled Nonprofits
    Nonprofit Transitions: Mergers and Dissolutions
    WAACO [Wayfind] Panel

RELATED INFORMATION

Bar and Court Admissions

  • Washington
  • California
  • Supreme Court of the United States
  • 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