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Michael J. Parise

Shareholder
(907) 263-7268
Anchorage
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Practice Areas

• Banking and Commercial Finance
• Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights
• Commercial Transactions
• Real Estate and Land Use Law

Mr. Parise's practice focuses on commercial law, secured lending, bankruptcy, real estate foreclosures (judicial and nonjudicial), loan restructuring agreements, real estate transactions and litigation, and litigation under Articles 3, 4, and 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code.

Education

• Boston University School of Law (J.D., 1978)
• Williams College (B.A., cum laude, 1975)

Admitted to Practice

• U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First and Ninth Circuits
• U.S. Court of Federal Claims
• U.S. District Courts for the Districts of Alaska and Massachusetts
• Alaska
• Massachusetts

Awards and Honors

• Ranked in Chambers USA, America's Leading Business Lawyers
• Phi Beta Kappa
  
• Honors in English, Williams College
• James Phinney Baxter, III, Honor Scholarship

Selected Clients

• Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority
• KeyBank National Association
• General Electric Capital Corporation
• Inlet Fisheries, Inc.
• GMAC-RFC
• Nationsbanc Mortgage Corporation of New York
• Association of Flight Attendants
• Norwest Financial Alaska, Inc.
• Fleet Mortgage Corporation
• Alaska Communications Systems
• Trans Union, LLC
• U.S. Small Business Administration

Representative Matters

• Represented lender in federal contract claims proceeding as assignee of claims on third-party-financed Over the Horizon-Backscatter radar construction project for the Department of the Air Force.
• Represented lenders in multi-million dollar construction and development projects throughout Alaska, including the wood chip loading and shipping facility in Homer, the Mount Roberts Tramway and tourist facilities in Juneau, the waterfront development project in Unalaska, and the Section 801 housing construction at Eielson Air Force Base.
• In re E. Brown Incorporated (secured lender's counsel in Chapter 11 of construction company)
• In re Kake Tribal Corporation (secured lender's counsel in Chapter 11 of an Alaska Native corporation)
• In re Wave Wholesale (secured lender's counsel in Chapter 11 of food wholesale distributor in rural Alaska)
• In re Pacific Forest Products (debtor's counsel for Chapter 11 of sawmill)
• In re Southeast Timber (creditor's counsel in logging company reorganization involving issues of first impression concerning setoff and recoupment)
• In re Glacier Bay Airways (counsel for creditor aircraft lender in Chapter 11 case)
• In re Rocky Mountain Helicopters (counsel for timber owner in Chapter 11 proceedings involving bankruptcy jurisdiction issues and Hunters Run lien issues)
• In re MarkAir (counsel for flight attendants' union and for an indenture trustee in two Chapter 11 cases)
• In re Inlet Fisheries, Inc. (represented seafood processor in successful reorganization under Chapter 11)

Professional and Community Activities

• Alaska Bar Association, Bankruptcy Law Section, committee member responsible for amending the Local Bankruptcy Rules for the District of Alaska to comply with the substantial amendments to the Bankruptcy Code effective October 2005.

Speaking Engagements

• "Representing Secured Creditors in Bankruptcy Proceedings," National Business Institute