Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Peter Benvenutti has practiced bankruptcy and creditors' rights law since 1974. In the bankruptcy courts, he has represented secured and unsecured institutional lenders, reorganization trustees, debtors in possession, creditors' committees, real and personal property lessors, asset acquirers, and venture capital investors in reorganization cases as well as parties in litigation. Peter has represented financial institutions and borrowers in workout negotiations involving real estate and commercial loans. He also develops and advises on restructuring strategies and provides transaction and litigation counsel concerning bankruptcy and creditors' rights.

Peter's experience includes a myriad of cases, with an emphasis on complex business reorganizations, and he has negotiated favorable resolutions of litigated disputes with creditors' committees. Peter has often handled restructuring plans in settings in which speed was essential to a settlement. For example, he represented the debtor in possession of a designer and manufacturer of specialty apparel and negotiated and confirmed a successful restructuring plan less than five months after the client's chapter 11 case was filed. Peter's representations also include a major investment bank in highly litigated bankruptcy cases of U.S.-based holding companies owning Polish real estate development companies that involved cross-border issues, extensive contempt proceedings, and numerous appeals. In addition, he represented the chapter 11 trustees of a card club/casino in litigation before an administrative agency and in state court over challenges to gaming ordinance restrictions and a $350 million supply chain management business, including the successful sale of the business through a highly competitive auction.

Peter has given numerous talks and panel presentations on bankruptcy and financing issues. He is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. He is a member of the State Bar of California, the American Bar Association (Business Law Section and Business Bankruptcy Committee), the Bar Association of San Francisco (arbitrator, Attorney Fee Dispute Committee, 1985-present), the California Bankruptcy Forum (director, 1991-1995 and president, 1993-1994), the Bay Area Bankruptcy Forum (director, 1991-1994 and president, 1991-1992), and the American Bankruptcy Institute (Committee on Professional Compensation). He was a lawyer representative of the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, 1994-1997 (chair of North District of California Delegation, 1995-1997 and member, Conference Executive Committee, 1997-2000) and board member of the Ninth Circuit Advisory, 2001-2003.

Areas of Practice

• Business Restructuring & Reorganization

West Practice Categories

Business & Commercial Law, Business Organizations

Bar Admissions

• California

Education

• U of California - Berkeley

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