Mr. Graham is a member of the Firm's Financial Restructuring and Insolvency Practice Group in New York, having recently returned from the Firm's Hamburg office.  He focuses his practice on Chapter 11 proceedings, multinational bankruptcy cases and out of court restructuring transactions.  He has extensive experience representing both debtors and secured and unsecured creditors in Chapter 11 cases.  Current and recent matters in which Mr. Graham has been involved include the representation of lenders in the HomeBanc Mortgage bankruptcy and of various aircraft finance parties in the Northwest Airlines Corporation Chapter 11 case. 

Prior to joining White & Case, Mr. Graham practiced from 2002-2005 as an associate at the New York office of another leading international law firm, where he was involved in representing Chapter 11 debtors WorldCom, Inc., Sunbeam Corp. and International Wire Group, Inc., as well as numerous creditors and investors in other cases.  Mr. Graham has also provided bankruptcy-related consumer finance law advice to large credit institutions.

Before moving to New York, Mr. Graham clerked for Chief Judge Philip H. Brandt of the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit and the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Washington and, still earlier, for Judge Lee M. Jackwig of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Iowa.

Mr. Graham was an active duty officer in the United States Army from 1991-1996 and remains a reserve member of the Judge Advocate General Corps.

Bars and Courts
Washington State Bar, 2000
New York State Bar, 2003
US District Court for the Southern District of New York, 2003

Education
JD, University of Washington School of Law, 1999
BS, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, 1991

Publications
Books
Co-author, Part IV (UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency and Chapter 15 of the United States Bankruptcy Code) of the four-part treatise, European Insolvency Regulation (ed. K. Pannen) (De Gruyter 2007) (with Evan Hollander)

Law Review Articles
Co-author, "US Bankruptcy Court Refuses to Defer to Law of Foreign Main Proceeding," International Corporate Rescue, January 2012 (with Evan Hollander)
Co-author, "US Bankruptcy Court Rules on Extraterritorial Scope of Automatic Stay Arising upon Recognition of Foreign Main Proceeding," International Corporate Rescue, October 2011 (with Evan Hollander)
Co-author, "Enforcement by US Courts of Releases Granted in Foreign Insolvency Proceedings," International Corporate Rescue, Vol. 8, Issue 4, August 2011 (with Evan Hollander)
"Is Getting US Recognition of an Off-Shore Fund Insolvency Proceeding Now Almost Impossible?" Law360, August 2008
Co-author, "US Recognition of Non-US Insolvency Proceedings: More Than a Rubber Stamp," published in Euromoney Global Insolvency & Restructuring Review 2008/09 (with Evan Hollander and Daniel Ginsberg)
Co-author, "Foreign Insolvencies Need Not Be Recognized," Law360, November 2007 (with Brian L. Holman)
Co-author, "Lessons From Precision Industries: Commercial Lessees Must Rise Early to Protect Their Interests," Pratt's Journal of Bankruptcy Law, Pages 513-521, January/February 2006 (with Evan Hollander)

Languages
English
German

Citizenship
United States