Howard J. Weg

Throughout Mr. Weg’s career, he has played leading roles in representing debtors, creditors, counter parties to financial contracts, licensees, licensors, investors, buyers, sellers and committees in numerous business workouts and chapter 11 cases.  These include:

• California Power Exchange
• Pacific Gas and Electric
• Portland General Electric
• Applause
• RFB Cellular
• Chantal Pharmaceuticals
• Odyssey International-The North Face
• Neuvant Aerospace
• UniSil Corporation
• Halcyon Holding Group
• Carolco Pictures
• Video City
• Shooting Gallery Pictures
• The Bonaventure Hotel
• Santa Barbara Beach Hotels
• Granada Hills Community Hospital
• Sherman Oaks Health System
• Millennium Pacific

Professional Background and Leadership

Mr. Weg’s many authored articles have been published in the Commercial Law Journal, California Bankruptcy Court Reporter, Real Estate Law Journal, and Business Law News. He has lectured widely for such organizations as the American Bar Association, American Bankruptcy Institute, State Bar of California and Financial Lawyers Conference.

An active member of the Bankruptcy Bar and leader in the legal profession, Mr. Weg serves on the Board of Directors of the American College of Bankruptcy.  He has served on the Executive Committee and as chair of the Education Committee of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California and currently participates in several committees of the American Bar Association.  In addition, Mr. Weg is a past president and member of the Board of Governors of the Financial Lawyers Conference.

Mr. Weg, who is the managing partner of Peitzman Weg LLP, began practicing bankruptcy and commercial law in 1980 after he received his L.L.M. from Yale Law School.  His recognitions include Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The Best Lawyers in America, Southern California “Super Lawyer,” and “Bankruptcy Lawyer of the Year” by the Century City Bar Association.

Publications

• Building Your Bankruptcy Book of Business, Young and New Members Committee ABI Committee News, Volume 9, Number 6 (December 2011)
• Forward Contracts, Bankruptcy Safe Harbors and the Electricity Industry, 51 Wayne L. Rev. 49 (2005)
• Enforcing a Pre-bankruptcy Release of Claims and Rights, Los Angeles Lawyer Volume 23, No. 11 (Feb. 2001)
• Lease Rejection Claims in Bankruptcy, California Real Property Journal (Feb. 2001)
• Revisiting Rents, Issues and Profits in Bankruptcy, 18 Business Law News 3 (Winter 1996)
• Strategies for Obtaining Injunctions in Bankruptcy, 3 Bankr. Litigation 26 (1995)
• A Critical Look at Asset Protection Plans, 13 Estate Planning, Trust and Probate News 46 (1993)
• Introduction to Federal Regulation of Plant Closings and Mass Layoffs, 94 Commercial L.J. 123 (1989)
• The Secured Creditor's Rights to Rents from Real Property, 17 Real Estate L.J. 29 (1988)

Lectures and Speaking Engagements

Programs for the American Bar Association, the American Bankruptcy Institute, Practising Law Institute, Financial Lawyers Conference, the California Bankruptcy Forum, the Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum, the Century City Bar Association, the Beverly Hills Bar Association, the Los Angeles County Bar Association and other organizations

• State Bar of California
  Member, Executive Committee, Business Law Section (1994-1997)
  Chair, Education Committee, Business Law Section (1993)
  Chair, 15th Annual Spring Program, Business Law Section (1993)
• American Bar Association
  Member, Business Bankruptcy Committee (1985-present)
• American Bankruptcy Institute
  Member (1985-present)
• American College of Bankruptcy
  Fellow (2001-present)
  Regent for the Ninth Circuit (2008-2012)
  Board of Directors (2012-present)
• Financial Lawyers Conference
  Member, Board of Governors (1998-present)
  President (2003-2004)