Peter Michael Allen, Adjunct Professor, Foreign Attorney (New York)

Peter represents startup companies, multinational companies, venture capital companies, hedge funds, private equity funds and other investment vehicles for corporate deals and business planning. His background focuses on matters concerning institutional investors, corporate finance and special situations & restructuring involving legal, deal structuring and valuation matters. He has worked at law firms in New York City as an attorney and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as a legal extern while in law school at Georgetown University. Since 2011, he has worked on fifteen (15) bilingual Japanese-English language based cross-border litigation & Department of Justice investigation cases defending Japanese companies for antitrust (e.g. regulation of mergers & acquisitions), and other matters.

He is a graduate of San Diego State University (SDSU) (B.A.S. in International Business, Japanese language emphasis; Honors: Distinction in International Business major). While at SDSU, he received several Japanese language study awards including the Kyocera award for Best Student for Japanese Newspaper Reading 422 and Graduate Level Japanese. Peter speaks and reads Japanese fluently and has studied Japanese language since 2000.

He holds law degrees from Georgetown University Law Center (LL.M. in Securities & Financial Regulation), St. John’s University School of Law (LL.M. in Bankruptcy; with a focus on Corporate Bankruptcy & Restructuring; Honors: Dean Merit Scholar), and University of San Diego School of Law (J.D.). He is a member of the bar of New York and has held Series 7 and 63 licenses.

Peter studied at Temple University, Japan, Beasley School of Law during his J.D. study and has studied abroad in Tokyo at Waseda University and at Osaka International University during his undergraduate studies and has lived in Japan for several years.

PUBLICATIONS

“Private Equity Firms & Hedge Funds’ Distressed Investments in JC Penney’s Chapter 11 Case and Overview of Distressed Retailers and Malls during the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic,” The Investment Lawyer, May 2022

“MBS Meltdown Imminent (Again) and CLO Bubble: Hedge Funds Short on Malls’ CMBS Bonds Just the Beginning of Signs of Distress as the End of the “Easy Money” Era Will Add Pressure to the CMBS and CLO Bubbles,” The Investment Lawyer, August 2022