Guest of Honor and Speaker’s Profile

Allan Diamond is a trial lawyer with almost four decades of experience handling complex commercial litigation, business insolvencies, and cross-border litigation. Allan handles many cases with far-reaching domestic and global implications, including distressed financial situations with international cross-border litigation.

Allan has been lead trial counsel in some of the largest corporate fraud cases in history, many of which involved cross-border discovery issues and trial, including LJM2 (Enron), Parmalat, InverWorld, Syntax/Brillian and USA Commercial Mortgage, among many others. He is currently lead counsel in the cross-border environmental litigation case on behalf of the Province of Marinduque, Philippines against Barrick Gold and is lead trial counsel for a multinational supplier of products used in the oil & gas industry in a major litigation in Houston involving cross-border issues in India.

Allan has extensive experience with all aspects of trial procedures and evidence, including the often complex issues surrounding the admission of scientific evidence. Allan has appeared in federal, state, and appellate courts throughout the United States and as foreign co-counsel in many other jurisdictions around the world. He was appointed by the United States Department of Justice and the bankruptcy court in San Francisco as the Bankruptcy Trustee of Howrey, LLP, and also has served as lead special trial counsel to the Dewey & LeBoeuf Liquidating trust, the two largest law firm bankruptcies in history.

Allan has been selected as a Texas Super Lawyer every year since its inception in 2003 through 2017. He served as the former Chairman of the Advisory Board for Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia from 2013-2016, is a member of the Texas Bar Foundation and the Houston, Dallas and New York City Bar Associations. He is an honorary member of the Commercial Bar Association of England, Wales and Scotland, North American Division; a member of the Congress of Fellows for the Center for International Legal Studies in Salzburg, Austria; the International Business Law Consortium; INSOL, (London); the IBA (London); the ABA International Litigation Division, and is very active as a lecturer and author for the American Bankruptcy Institute, the American Bar Association and other associations. He is an advisor to the Uniform Law Commission section on fraudulent transfers.