Philip W Allogramento
Phil.Allogramento@kennedyslaw.com
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Education
- Emory University School of Law, JD, 2003
- Hamilton College, BA, 2000
Phil Allogramento is a partner in the New Jersey office. He focuses his practice on bankruptcy, creditors’ rights and commercial law, banking law and finance and commercial litigation. Phil regularly handles both litigation and transactional work, including the representation of debtors and creditors in chapter 7 and 11 bankruptcy cases and with respect to assignments for the benefit of creditors.
Phil has represented individuals, corporations and financial institutions in matters concerning secured transactions, asset sales/purchases, commercial foreclosures/evictions and workouts. He has litigated complex matters in state and federal courts, including fraudulent transfer, preference actions, negotiable instrument litigation and shareholder disputes. He has also assisted debtors with the wind-down of businesses outside of the bankruptcy filing process and represented secured and unsecured clients in all aspects of insolvency law.
Memberships
- New Jersey State Bar Association, Banking Law Section
- The Association of the Federal Bar of New Jersey
- Essex County Bar Association
- American Bankruptcy Institute
- Turnaround Management Association, Trustee
Qualifications and admissions
- New Jersey
- New York
- Pennsylvania
- US District Court for the District of New Jersey
- US District Court for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York
- US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- US Court of Appeals for the Second and Third Circuits
- US Tax Court
Market recognition
- Recognized in Best Lawyers in America: Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law and Litigation – Bankruptcy (2024-2025)
Work highlights
- Served as co-counsel to the debtor in a large chapter 11 hospital bankruptcy.
- Represented one of the largest suppliers of merchandising, assembly and installation services in the United States as a chapter 11 debtor that resulted in a successful sale of the debtor’s assets.
- Served as counsel for the debtor in a successful pre-packaged chapter 11 bankruptcy for a real estate holding company.
- Represented a commercial real estate landlord in a bankruptcy dispute involving contested ownership of a liquor license.
- Represented banking institutions and insurance companies in check fraud, unauthorized banking transactions and other issues arising from the Uniform Commercial Code and Federal Regulations.
Presentations and publications
- “Commercial leases and bankruptcy protection,” published in New Jersey Law Journal (February 2022)
- “Introduction to UCC Article 9 – Creation, perfection, priority and enforcement of liens,” In-House Client Training (November 2019)
- Co-author, “Common business defenses to preference claims,” published in New Jersey Lawyer Magazine (February 2019)
- Co-author, “Want to make a stand? You may not have standing,” published in American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) Journal (August 2015)
Banking and finance