Allen D. Moreland

Allen Moreland is a partner at Berger Singerman who is part of our Business Reorganization and Business, Finance and Tax teams. Allen is a highly accomplished lawyer with over 30 years of law experience advising on a wide range of highly sophisticated, cross-border Latin American and Caribbean financing and corporate transactions.

Allen concentrates his work on providing legal counsel on cross-border bonds, structured finance transactions (including future-flow receivables and pre-export transactions), and all types of lending transactions. Additionally, Moreland advises on mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions. Allen has over 10 years of experience practicing law in Brazil where he is a naturalized Brazilian who speaks fluent Portuguese.

Some of Allen’s career accomplishments include structuring and negotiating export receivables securitizations in excess of $1 billion involving the Brazilian steel industry; advising a Brazilian upstream oil and gas company on the institution of Chapter 15 proceedings in New York requiring the restructuring of $48 million of global notes; representing a major Brazilian aircraft manufacturer in a $100 million monetization of an aircraft sale agreement; helping an investment bank in Brazil to domesticate and execute a Brazilian final judgment in Florida worth over $30 million; and representing the purchasers/borrowers in a leveraged buyout worth $370 million involving security located in 16 separate Caribbean jurisdictions.

In addition to being fluent in Portuguese, Allen speaks fluent German and is proficient in Spanish.

Pending Florida Bar Admission. 

J.D., Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, Columbia University School of Law
B.A., summa cum laude, Northwestern University

• Phi Beta Kappa

New York
Oregon
São Paulo, Brazil (OAB-SP) as a Consultor em Direito Estrangeiro

Business, Finance & Tax

Private Equity & Venture Capital
Mergers & Acquisitions
International & Cross Border Transactions
Corporate
Securities & Capital Markets
Latin America & Caribbean Practice