Alan regularly represents institutional lenders and borrowers in loan transactions, restructurings of problem financings (he has appeared in bankruptcy court on behalf of both creditors and debtors), and asset securitizations. He also actively participates in venture capital transactions, intellectual property licensing arrangements, and mergers and acquisitions transactions. He has represented several professional sports teams in connection with their debt financing transactions.

Alan is a member of the Maryland, District of Columbia, and American Bar Associations.

Alan frequently lectures on commercial law topics, with specific emphasis on secured transactions, fraudulent conveyances, negotiable instruments, letters of credit, and other issues arising under the Uniform Commercial Code. He has lectured on a variety of commercial law topics and has published various articles on this subject.

• Alan published a guest article on security interests in cash collateral in Clarks’ Secured Transactions Monthly (November 1999).
• He appeared as a panelist at the International Film and Television Finance Summit in New York in June 1993, where he delivered a lecture on the application of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code to various types of financing transactions of interest to film producers.
• He delivered a lecture on “Fundamentals of Business Acquisition Transactions,” in June 2006, sponsored by Lorman Education Services.
• He appeared as a guest panelist at the 2006 Fall Commercial Financial Services Meeting in Washington, DC (with US Third Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Thomas J. Ambro), where he delivered a paper on multiple party financing transactions.
• He published an article in 2009 concerning foreclosures of UCC security interests on equity pledged by mezzanine borrowers; the article, “UCC Remedies Concerning LLC Interests Pledged To Secure A Mezzanine Loan – A Very General Outline.”
• He delivered another lecture sponsored by Lorman Education Services in May 2010, “Commercial Lending Opinion Letters: Rights, Obligations and Expectations.”

Within the firm, Mr. Dubin frequently lectures on commercial law topics, with specific emphasis on opinion letters delivered at loan closings, substantive non-consolidation and true sale opinions, secured transactions (primarily Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code), fraudulent conveyances, negotiable instruments, letters of credit, and other commercial law issues.