For over thirty years, Alan Gover has advised clients in the legal response to serious business crises of all sorts in diverse industry and financial sectors, around the world. He is committed to being where he is needed for as long as the problem requires. His engagements have ranged from serving as the lead attorney whose strategies assisted one of the largest investor owned utilities in the United States in recovering over $10 billion in shareholder equity lost in regulatory and financial struggles, to directing the successful Chapter 11 reorganizations of important American corporations as independent entities, to addressing the mass tort litigation brought against an international financial institution, to advising governments and state owned lenders about global financial upheaval. His practice has embraced bankruptcy and reorganization, litigation and transactional projects. All considered, his assignments have represented well in excess of $120 billion in client risk.

Selected representations:

• Debtors and their equity owners, in or out-of-court: Pacific Gas and Electric (largest US investor-owned utility); National Energy Group (second largest US independent power company); The Seattle Times and Affiliates (one of the largest independently owned newspaper chains in the US); InterGen (a large US independent power producer and marketer); Greyhound Lines (the only nationwide inter-city US bus carrier); Zale (the largest US retail jeweler); Kaiser Aluminum; Pacific Lumber/Scotia Pacific; and HealthVest.
• Primary creditors and bank groups in: Abitibi/Bowater (paper/pulp); Tracor (defense/high-tech); Continental Airlines (first and second filings and its subsequent restructuring); TWA; Aeromexico/Mexicana Airlines; Taesa (airlines); America West Airlines; Avianca Airlines (Colombia); Delta Airlines; Raymond International/Kaiser Engineering (engineering/heavy construction); Maher Terminals (ports); OmniPort (ports); Salander-O'Reilly Gallery (art); U.S. Homes (homebuilder); Seiscom Delta (oilfield services); Tomlinson Interests (gas exploration /production).
• Mr. Gover serves as an advisor to boards of directors and managements and financial and strategic investors, including sovereign wealth funds and other global financial and business institutions. He has also been lead M&A counsel in major transactions in the utility industry, including PG&E's US$3 billion acquisition of the generating assets of New England Electric Systems, the precedent setting disaggregation transaction in the industry.

Mr. Gover writes and speaks on strategic planning and reorganization and bankruptcy. He has been acknowledged in many professional rankings, including recognitions in "Best Lawyers in America" for the past 15 years.

Bars and Courts
New York State Bar
Texas State Bar
District of Columbia Bar
US Supreme Court
US District Court for the Southern District of New York
US Southern, Northern and Eastern District Courts
US Court of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fifth, Ninth, Eleventh and District of Columbia
US District Court for the Southern, Northern, and Eastern Districts of Texas

Education
JD, Georgetown University Law Center, 1973
BA, Tufts University, 1970

Professional Associations and Memberships
Member, The Salvation Army of Great New York Advisory Board (Present)
President, Congregation Beth Israel, Houston, Texas (2001-2003)
Trustee, St. John's School, Houston, Texas (1996-2004)
Member,The Salvation Army of Harris County, Texas Advisory Board (2003-2005)

Publications
"Improving Governance of Chapter 11 Debtors", The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, October 14, 2010
"In Re Yellowstone Mountain Club LLC—The Pitfalls of 'Equitable Subordination' for the Unwary Lender", White & Case Financial Markets Developments – Client Alert, June 4, 2009 (co-authored with White & Case Bank Finance partners Eric Berg and Alan Rockwell)
"Hitting the Brakes on Legislative Interference with the Property Rights of Automakers' Secured Creditors", White & Case Insolvency Notes, January 29, 2009 (co-authored with White & Case associate Andrew Zatz)
"Bankruptcy not a good option for the auto industry," Crain's Detroit Business, December 8, 2008

Languages
English

Citizenship
United States