Assistant Professor of Law

• Banking Law and Regulation
• Bankruptcy and Debtor/Creditor
• Corporate Reorganizations Seminar
• Business Associations I

Before joining the faculty at Lewis & Clark Law School, Samir D. Parikh practiced complex financial restructuring at Latham & Watkins and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in Los Angeles, California and Baker Botts in Houston, Texas.  Professor Parikh’s practice focused on the representation of corporate debtors and secured and unsecured creditors in both transactional and litigation-related engagements, including the representation of parties that acquire assets through plans of reorganization and section 363 asset sales.  While in private practice, Professor Parikh’s representations included the following engagements:

• In re Lehman Brothers Holdings (counsel to official committee of unsecured creditors)
• In re Trump Hotel & Casino Resorts (counsel to debtors)
• In re Aloha Airlines (counsel to plan co-sponsor and acquirer of assets)
• In re Station Casinos (counsel to debtors)
• In re Adelphia Communications Corp. (counsel to M&A financial advisor)
• In re Leap Wireless International (counsel to debtors)

Prior to working in private practice, Professor Parikh was a law clerk for the Honorable Alan M. Ahart of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California.

Professor Parikh’s research and writing focus on promoting uniformity in the decision-making processes behind key forms of relief in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in order to eliminate debtor forum shopping – a significant problem due to the relative freedom the Bankruptcy Code affords corporate debtors in selecting venue. 

Professor Parikh’s recent publications are Saving Fraudulent Transfer Law, 86 Am. Bankr. L.J. ____ (2012), The Improper Application of the Clear and Convincing Standard of Proof:  Are Bankruptcy Courts Distorting Accepted Risk Allocation Schemes? 78 U. Cin. L. Rev. 271 (2009) and Preventing Management’s Misconduct From Leading to the Appointment of a Chapter 11 Trustee, Am. Bankr. Inst. J., Vol. XXVII, No. 6 (July/August 2008).

Professor Parikh received his JD from the University of Michigan Law School and his BBA from the University of Miami.