Real Estate Accounting

P. PETER SHAHRAM

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EXPERIENCE

CARLEBACH LAW GROUP, New York, NY

Bankruptcy & Restructuring Associate, May 2013 – June 2014

Represented debtors, creditors and lenders in corporate reorganization cases, liquidations, and out-of-

court workouts. Experienced in all aspects of general bankruptcy practice and insolvency-related

litigation, including researching and composing legal memoranda; drafting pleadings, motions, and

schedules; restructuring debt and negotiating out-of-court workout proposals for clients; and defending

fact and expert witness depositions. Identified the fundamental causes of underperformance, addressed

critical operational and financial issues, improved liquidity and operational results; evaluated capital

structure and debt restructuring alternatives; designed and implemented comprehensive turnaround/

restructuring plans, in Chapter 11 proceedings and out-of-court; analyzed complex damages and disputes,

retained Big Four accounting firm on a bankruptcy fraud matter and assisted with the forensic accounting

investigation.

• Drafted Chapter 11 plan of reorganizations and disclosure statements, motions for relief from automatic

stay, motions for use of cash collateral, and motions for removal of state court appointed receiverships.

• Lead associate attending hearings on approval of disclosure statement and confirmation hearings before

U.S. Bankruptcy Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York.

• Numerous representations on behalf of debtors and creditors in complex single-asset reorganizations

involving commercial and residential real estate.

SULLIVAN & CROMWELL, LLP, New York, NY

Project Attorney, June 2012 - May 2013

Performed extensive due diligence and underwriting analysis in the securitization of client’s residential

mortgaged-backed securities against claims of fraud and misrepresentation for a Fortune 100

multinational investment-banking firm.

• Part of a select group responsible for analyzing and drafting memoranda regarding the confidential and

significant nature of privileged documents for a master privilege-log.

DEILY & GLASTETTER, LLP, Albany, NY

Commercial Litigation Associate, August 2010 - February 2012; Law Clerk, March 2009 - May 2010

Complex commercial litigation experience in both federal and state court, including various matters in

bankruptcy, contract, securitization, and other business disputes. Advised clients in various stages of

litigation, drafted pleadings, managed discovery and prepared appellate briefs. Drafted provisional

remedies, including motions for prejudgment attachment, preliminary injunction, and replevin.

• Performed legal research and drafted memoranda as special counsel to bankruptcy trustees in Chapter 7

proceedings pertaining to preference claims, recovery of fraudulent transfers, and objections to

dischargeability.

• Complex contractual dispute analysis involving protection of lenders’ interests in perfection and

securitization of high net-worth agricultural/construction equipment under Article 9 of the U.C.C.

• Conducted legal research on threshold issues in various jurisdictions regarding enforcement of master

loan and security agreements, blanket inventory security agreements, and guaranty agreements relating

to dealership floor plan lending for national automotive financing clients.

• Represented national banks at mortgage foreclosure settlement conferences and motions for order of

reference relating to residential mortgage foreclosures.

SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY, CIVIL DIVISION, Trenton, NJ

Judicial Intern, Honorable Wilbur H. Mathesius, May 2008 - August 2008

Drafted bench memoranda, opinions, and orders on motions for summary judgment and reconsideration,

in a wide range of civil matters. Conducted legal research on substantive law and procedural issues for

judicial opinions.

BAR ADMISSIONS

New York, New Jersey, United States District Court for the Northern, Southern and Eastern Districts of

New York, and United States District Court for the District of New Jersey

PUBLICATIONS

Co-Author, “E-Discovery: Attorney and Work-Product Privilege in the Digital Age,” Northern District of

New York Federal Court Bar Association, Inc., NDNY-FCBA CLE, June 20, 2011.

Co-Author, “Basics of Bankruptcy Practice: 2011 Supplement to Basics of Bankruptcy CLE: Voidable

Fraudulent Conveyances,” New York State Bar Association CLE, May 2011.

EDUCATION

ALBANY LAW SCHOOL, Albany, NY - Juris Doctor, May 2010

Honors: Diversity Scholarship; Domenick L. Gabrielli Appellate Advocacy Moot Court Competitor

RUTGERS COLLEGE, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY, New Brunswick, NJ

Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Minor in Political Science, October 2005

Honors: Edgar Harold T. Memorial Scholarship

LANGUAGES

Farsi - (Fluent)

REFERENCES

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