Paul Manasian
E-mail: manasian@mrlawsf.com
Paul Manasian is a fixture in the San Francisco Bay Area legal community, having nearly 15 years’ experience in complex commercial litigation, bankruptcy, and insolvency counseling. He has appeared in state and federal courts throughout the Western United States.
Mr. Manasian’s litigation clients have included major financial institutions, leasing companies, business and individuals in nearly every type of commercial dispute. His experience extends from the representation of businesses in real property litigation — including recent litigation involving a $21 million sale of raw land in San Jose, California — to commercial landlord/tenant litigation, to enforcement of creditors’ rights, to complex litigation involving contract disputes. He has particular skill in counseling financial institutions and businesses — from publicly traded companies to small emerging businesses — in litigation concerning personal and real property secured transactions.
Mr. Manasian’s experience in bankruptcy and insolvency counseling is equally extensive. He has represented bankruptcy trustees, major financial institutions, creditors and debtors in numerous workouts and complex reorganizations and liquidations. For example, he served as the lead bankruptcy counsel for a bank committee in the landmark Fillmore Center Chapter 11 bankruptcy case in San Francisco, which involved a multi-unit project of several thousand apartments and over $110,000,000 in bank debt. He has advised both creditors and debtors in numerous single asset real estate bankruptcy cases and restructurings, has counseled commercial landlords and tenants in bankruptcy matters, and has represented creditors and debtors alike in bankruptcy adversary proceedings.
Mr. Manasian is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, the State Bar of California (Business and Litigation Sections), and the Bay Area Bankruptcy Forum. He graduated, Magna Cum Laude, from the University of Massachusetts in 1982, and from University of California’s Hastings College of the Law, where he was Order of the Coif, in 1987.
