Allan S. Buffenstein is a member of the firm's Corporate, Bankruptcy, Real Estate & Finance and Intellectual Property Practice Groups where he works with clients on general corporate matters, contracts, licensing, business issues, commercial real estate and finance, workouts and restructurings, and bankruptcy law. Allan's practice includes the affordable housing area representing developers, investors and lenders involved in the construction and rehabilitation of new and existing residential communities and in Virginia Housing Development Authority (VHDA) financed projects, in HUD assisted and insured loans, HUD-FHA mortgage insurance program and the Fannie Mae DUS initiative.  His real estate finance practice also includes Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit (REMIC) loans. In the bankruptcy area, he represents financial institutions and businesses as creditors in bankruptcy matters, and clients in reorganizing and restructuring troubled business and real estate situations.  Allan was appointed by the Governor of Virginia, Timothy M. Kaine, to the Virginia Foreclosure Prevention Task Force.  In the bankruptcy area, he represents financial institutions and businesses as creditors in bankruptcy matters, and clients in reorganizing and restructuring troubled business and real estate situations.

He is the director of the firm's Bankruptcy Practice Group. Allan has lectured for various bar associations and the Virginia Law Foundation in continuing legal education programs regarding bankruptcy law.

Allan represents inventors in licensing their inventions and intellectual property, including the inventors and the owners of the worldwide patents for a leading surgical device and procedures used throughout the world in LASIK eye surgery. He has negotiated and prepared license agreements between his clients as licensors and leading national and international companies as licensees.

Allan is a native of Richmond and a member of the American Bar Association (Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section, Section of Business Law and Section of Intellectual Property Law), the Richmond Bar Association, and the American Bankruptcy Institute.

Articles and Publications

• "The Troubled Real Estate Project"
• "Representing the Creditors"
• "Condominiums—Representing the Parties When the Party's Over (The Troubled Project)"
• "The Nuts and Bolts of Representing Debtors and Creditors"
• "What Today's Non-Bankruptcy Lawyer Needs to Know about Bankruptcy"

Martindale-Hubbell AV Peer Review Rated