Robert K. Sahyan

Robert Sahyan is an associate in the Finance & Bankruptcy Practice Group in the firm's San Francisco office.

Areas of Practice

Mr. Sahyan specializes in bankruptcy, creditor rights, workouts and foreclosures. His practice includes representing debtors, creditors and committees in bankruptcy, as well as representing lenders in workouts and foreclosures. Mr. Sahyan's practice also includes real estate and asset based financing.

Education

• J.D., University of California, Hastings College of the Law, Staff Editor, Hastings Business Law Journal
• Licentiate in Law, Damascus University, Faculty of Law
• B.A., California State University, Fullerton, summa cum laude

Clerkships

• Full-Time Extern for the Honorable Maxine M. Chesney, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Admissions

• California

Represented official committee of unsecured creditors in the Chapter 11 case of Doyle D. Heaton and Mary K. Heaton, real estate developer.

Represented official committee of equity security holders of Tvia, Inc., a semi conductor company.

Represented Chapter 11 debtor Humboldt Creamery, LLC, a dairy producer.

Represented Chapter 11 debtor The Billing Resource dba Integretel, a billing aggregator.

Represented Chapter 11 debtor, Diablo Grande Limited Partnership, a real estate developer.

Representation of lenders in real estate and asset based lending transactions.

Articles

• May 6, 2010, Bankruptcy & Restructuring Blog, When Are Goods Received For The Purpose Of Asserting Administrative Priority Status Under Section 503(b)(9) Of The Bankruptcy Code? (Also published on Bankruptcy Law360)
  
• February 18, 2010, Bankruptcy & Restructuring Blog, Equitable Subordination of a Creditor's Secured Claim when such Secured Creditor is, itself, in Bankruptcy
  
• Robert K. Sahyan, Note, The Myth of the Zone of Insolvency, Production Resources Group v. NCT Group, Hastings Business Law Journal, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Fall 2006).