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Mr. Alper has the AV Rating with Martindale Hubbell and has been representing equipment lessors, funding sources and other financial institutions since 1979. Mr. Alper obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science, Magna Cum Laude, from the University of California at Santa Barbara and received his Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School making the Dean's List.

Mr. Alper's practice emphasizes the representation of equipment lessors and funding sources in all aspects of equipment leasing including litigation, documentation, insolvency, and transactional matters. Besides representing equipment lessors and funding sources, Mr. Alper represents banks and other financial institutions in the area of commercial litigation, insolvency, secured transactions, banking law, real estate, and business litigation. Mr. Alper has also been appointed to the Insolvency Committee for the State Bar of California.

Mr. Alper is one of two persons who writes the Legal Column for the national leasing newspaper The Monitor on various legal topics in the area of Equipment Leasing, bankruptcy, and other related topics and is authoring the Equipment Leasing section of the California Education of the Bar book entitled Forming and Protecting California Businesses.

Mr. Alper is currently on the Board of Directors for the United Association Equipment Lessors and has been a speaker for the United Association of Equipment Lessors, (and the Western Association of Equipment Lessors before the name change), the Equipment Leasing Association of America ("ELA") at its Credit and Collections Conference and Legal Forum, and the National Association of Equipment Leasing Brokers. Mr. Alper presently is on the ELA Legal Committee and the ELA Legal ListServ Subcommittee formed to give legal assistance for ELA members involved in the leasing industry. Mr. Alper has also been an instructor for ELA at its Principles of Leasing class and has presented seminars on Equipment Leasing for the Los Angeles County Bar Association and elsewhere.

Mr. Alper is a member of the State Bar of California, the Los Angeles County Bar Association (Commercial and Bankruptcy Sections), the Equipment Leasing Association of America, the Financial Lawyers Conference, and United Association of Equipment Lessors.


Mr. Alper's practice emphasis is:

Financial Services
Creditors Rights and Commercial Litigation
Equipment Leasing
Bankruptcy and Business Reorganizations
Business Litigation
Secured Transactions in Real and Personal Property
Prejudgment Remedies