Andrew K. Alper
Mr. Alper has the A.V. Rating with Martindale Hubbell and has been representing equipment lessors, funding sources and other financial institutions since 1978. 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, equipment lessors and other financial institutions and creditors in the area of commercial litigation, insolvency, secured transactions, banking law, real estate, and business litigation. Mr. Alper has also represented Trustees as special counsel and has represented Creditors Committees. Mr. Alper also lobbied legislators on behalf of the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association of America with respect to the Bankruptcy litigation specifically to codify the result in Claremont Acquisition Corp. which has since been codified in the Bankruptcy Code. Mr. Alper has also been a member of the Insolvency Committee for the State Bar of California.
Mr. Alper has authored the chapter on Equipment Leasing for the California Continuing Education of the Bar in its book Financing and Protecting California Business. He has written numerous articles in the areas of insolvency, secured transactions and equipment leasing and is one of two legal writers for the national equipment leasing newspaper The Monitor.
Mr. Alper has been on the Board of Directors for the United Association Equipment Lessors and spoken on numerous occasions for the United Association of Equipment Lessors, (and the Western Association of Equipment Lessors before the name change), the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association of America (formerly the Equipment Leasing Association of America) ("ELFA") at its Credit and Collections Conference and Legal Forum, and the National Association of Equipment Leasing Brokers. Mr. Alper presently is on the ELFA Legal Committee, the ELFA Legal ListServ Subcommittee formed to give legal assistance for ELFA members involved in the leasing industry, and the Amicus Brief Subcommittee. Mr. Alper has also been an instructor for ELFA at its Principles of Leasing class. He has spoken on such topics as "Revised Article 9 of the Commercial Code", "Legal Documentation", "Developments in Product Liability for Equipment Lessors", "Equipment Lease Documentation Issues", "Mixed Collateral Issues", "Unusual Clauses in Lease Documentation", "Broker/Lessor Issues", "Complex Litigation Issues", "The Bankruptcy Reform Act", "Issues relating to Norvergence", "Complex Bankruptcy Issues for ELFA, the "Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005", and Fraud. In March, 2006, Mr. Alper presented a seminar on Equipment Leasing for the Los Angeles County Bar Association.
Mr. Alper is a member of the State Bar of California, the Los Angeles County Bar Association (Commercial and Bankruptcy Sections), the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association of America, the Financial Lawyers Conference, and the United Association of Equipment Lessors.
Mr. Alper represented The Western Association of Equipment Lessors (which is now UAEL) on an amicus curiae basis to overturn the decision in Enterprise Leasing Corporation v. Epstein which was an unfavorable decision for the equipment leasing industry involving the liquidation of collateral. The decision was ultimately decertified. Commercial Code Section 9501 was ultimately amended to eliminate the Court's decision in Enterprise Leasing Corporation v. Epstein. Mr. Alper has also lobbied for the equipment leasing industry during ELFA's Capitol Hill Day in order to assist the industry in changing laws concerning bankruptcy and product liability issues as they relate to equipment lessors and other lenders.
Mr. Alper's practice emphasis is:
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