Allen Moreland LLC is the private transactional practice of Allen Moreland, a lawyer with two decades of experience in cross-border finance, structured transactions, and complex corporate advisory work. The firm advises financial institutions, corporate clients, and sophisticated parties on matters that typically involve multiple jurisdictions, non-standard structures, or opinion-level scrutiny.
Mr. Moreland is admitted in Oregon and New York and registered as a foreign law consultant in São Paulo, Brazil. He is a dual United States and Brazilian citizen, fluent in Portuguese and German, and conversational in Spanish.
Atendimento em português
Fluente em português e alemão. Atendo empresas brasileiras e clientes de língua portuguesa nos EUA em contratos comerciais, operações de crédito e pareceres jurídicos — diretamente, sem intermediários.
About
Allen Moreland has practiced transactional law for more than twenty-five years, principally in cross-border finance and structured transactions.
He was previously a partner or counsel at Mayer Brown, Thacher Proffitt & Wood, Hunton & Williams, and Greenberg Traurig, and most recently served as partner and head of the corporate group at AXS Law Group in Miami and as a partner in the business, finance, and tax practice at Berger Singerman. Between his New York and Miami careers, he was an investment banking partner and inside counsel at Base Capital Partners in Rio de Janeiro, where he structured and advised on private equity and M&A transactions with counterparties including Bertelsmann, the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank.
His work has concentrated on syndicated and secured lending, asset-backed facilities, securitizations (including future receivables, export receivables, and payment rights), sovereign debt issuances, and cross-border restructurings. He represented the Government of Belize in five sovereign bond offerings and in related litigation, and has advised issuers, underwriters, and financial institutions on capital markets transactions under Rule 144A and Regulation S. In recent years his practice has expanded to include DIP financing, acquisition finance, mezzanine real estate finance, whole-loan and portfolio sales, and Chapter 15 restructurings.
Mr. Moreland also serves as Deputy City Attorney for Medford, Oregon, where he advises the City on public contracting, land use, urban renewal finance, and civil governance. That role is a separate public-sector engagement and is distinct from the firm's private practice. Allen Moreland LLC does not accept municipal clients or matters related to Mr. Moreland's public role.
He integrates AI tools into his practice for research, drafting, and document analysis, with a lawyer's discipline around accuracy and professional responsibility. The objective is better work product, not shortcuts. A fuller statement appears on the page titled On AI in Legal Practice.
(Consultor em Direito Estrangeiro, OAB-SP)
Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
Northwestern University, B.A. in History and German
Graduated With Highest Distinction · Phi Beta Kappa
Spanish (conversational)
Scope of Practice. The firm accepts engagements by referral and from existing relationships. It does not handle litigation, personal legal matters, or consumer disputes.
Practice Areas
Cross-Border Finance
The firm advises on syndicated and secured lending, asset-backed facilities, and securitization transactions, including future receivables, export receivables, and payment rights structures. Mr. Moreland has represented issuers, underwriters, arrangers, and financial institutions on debt issuances under Rule 144A and Regulation S, including sovereign bond offerings and Yankee and Global Bond programs. The practice has particular historical depth in Latin America and the Caribbean, and Mr. Moreland's OAB-SP registration and Portuguese fluency remain available to clients with Brazil-related matters.
Structured and Complex Transactions
The firm handles transactions that do not fit standard templates: DIP financing, acquisition finance, mezzanine real estate finance, whole-loan and portfolio sales, and Chapter 15 restructurings. This work typically arises when a conventional capital structure is inadequate, when multiple creditor classes or jurisdictions must be coordinated, or when a matter involves distressed or non-performing assets. Mr. Moreland has advised on intermingled-asset and fraudulent-conveyance questions arising from cross-border insolvencies, and on the domestication and enforcement of foreign judgments.
Opinion Work
The firm issues third-party legal opinions for financial institutions and corporate clients on transactional matters, including cross-border enforceability, UCC questions, and corporate authority. Opinion work is accepted on a matter-by-matter basis and is subject to the firm's standard review and diligence requirements.
Corporate Governance and Contracts
The firm drafts and negotiates operating agreements, shareholder agreements, unanimous written consents, and board and shareholder resolutions and minutes, and advises closely held companies on general transactional and governance questions. This work is generally accepted as an extension of existing client relationships rather than as a standalone practice.
Representative Matters
The following matters are representative of the firm's and Mr. Moreland's prior transactional work. Some predate the formation of the firm and were handled in Mr. Moreland's capacity as a partner or counsel at other firms.
- Representation of the Government of Belize in five sovereign bond offerings and in related litigation involving the Belize national telephone company.
- Representation in a 16-nation collateralized loan facility.
- Representation of the Inter-American Development Bank in a Dollar-denominated receivables warehousing facility backed by Real-denominated Brazilian mortgages.
- Representation on export receivables and payment rights securitizations for Brazilian issuers.
- Representation in a Chapter 15 restructuring of international bonds.
- Representation in the untangling of intermingled assets and related fraudulent conveyance analysis for a Brazilian cell phone tower operator.
On AI in Legal Practice
A short statement on how this firm uses artificial intelligence.
I use AI tools in my legal practice. I use them for research, for first-draft generation, for document review and analysis, for translation work across the languages I practice in, and for the kind of structured thinking that used to require a junior associate and a long afternoon. I have used these tools long enough and carefully enough to have opinions about what they do well and what they do badly, and I think those opinions are worth stating on a firm website rather than leaving implicit.
What AI does well, in my experience, is accelerate the parts of legal work that are labor without being judgment. Pulling a precedent together, summarizing a long document, identifying the ten clauses in an agreement that need human attention, drafting a clean first version of a routine instrument. That work used to take hours and now takes minutes, and the client benefits from the time savings.
What AI does badly is anything that requires a lawyer's professional judgment about what the client actually needs, about what risk is acceptable, about what a court or regulator will do, or about the specific facts of the matter in front of us. It also hallucinates, confidently, on questions of law and fact. Every output requires verification by a lawyer who knows the subject area well enough to catch the errors. That verification is not a formality. It is the work.
The professional responsibility posture is straightforward. The client pays for a lawyer's judgment. AI tools change how I produce work product but do not change what I am responsible for. If the work is wrong, I am wrong, regardless of how it was generated. The client is entitled to expect that standard and I hold myself to it.
The net effect, at least so far, is that the tools have made the practice better. Faster on the labor, sharper on the judgment, more time available for the questions that actually matter. That is the goal.
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AdmittedOregon · New York
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Foreign ConsultantSão Paulo, Brazil (OAB-SP)
The firm accepts engagements by referral and from existing relationships. It does not handle litigation or personal legal matters.