Alan Kan’s practice focuses on corporate and business transactions, bankruptcy, and civil litigation. Mr. Kan routinely represents clients in a variety of matters ranging from business acquisitions, commercial litigation, and consumer and commercial bankruptcy. Mr. Kan’s practice entails extensive experience in business formations, the purchase or sell of businesses of various size, and also negotiating and drafting corporate documents and agreements, including software, technology and other intellectual property licenses, vendors and other professional services agreements, and franchise agreements.
Mr. Kan also serves as outside counsel for various business clients, including advising on corporate governance, regulatory compliance and other business issues. Additionally, he counsels clients in commercial and consumer lending and collections matters, including advising on issues relating to the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act, Fair Credit Reporting Act, and the Truth-in-Lending Act. Mr. Kan’s experience also extends to representing debtors (commercial and consumer) and creditors in restructuring loans (workouts) as well as in various receivership and bankruptcy proceedings. He has also advised clients on multi-state licensing and compliance issues. In the litigation context, Mr. Kan also has strong commercial litigation and trial experience including representing various clients with damages in excess of $1 million. Mr. Kan has managed many difficult cases from inception through completion successfully obtained favorable results for many of his clients.
Before forming Kan Clark LLP, Mr. Kan worked as an associate in the Corporate and Business Transactions Group in the Atlanta office of Dow Lohnes, PLLC where he advised, negotiated, and closed merger and acquisition, leveraged buyout, and secured and non-secured financing transactions in excess of a billion dollars. Prior to joining Dow Lohnes, Mr. Kan practiced with the firm of King & Spalding in Atlanta, where he represented both lenders and borrowers in both secured and unsecured financing deals ranging from $15 million to $800 million. Mr. Kan also gained invaluable insight into the civil and criminal litigation process while serving as a law clerk for the Honorable Justice Hugh Thompson of the Georgia Supreme Court and the Honorable Judge W.N. Dettmering in the Douglas County State Court. Additionally, Mr. Kan sharpened his criminal law skills while working in the Dekalb County Public Defender’s Office and litigation experience while working at the Turner Environmental Law Clinic.
Membership and Activities:
- Associate Editor-Georgia State University Law Review
- Atlanta Bar Association
Education:
- University of Georgia, B.B.A. in Finance and Risk Management, cum laude, 2003
- Georgia State University, College of Law, Juris Doctorate, magna cum laude, 2006
Bar Admissions:
- Georgia 2006