Samir D. Parikh
Professor
Current Position
Professor
Wake Forest School of Law
1965 Wake Forest Road
Law School
Winston-Salem, NC 27901
USA
Tel: 3108010627
Email: sparikh@lclark.edu
Scholarship:
Professor Parikh's research and writing focus on a variety of business law and bankruptcy issues, including mass tort restructurings, fraudulent transfer law, forum shopping, and municipal distress.
Professor Parikh is a nationally recognized expert on mass tort restructurings and business reorganizations. Cornell Law Review recently selected him as a co-organizer for its 2024 symposium, "Mass Torts Inferno: New Battle Lines in the Resolution Debate." He has also served as a co-organizer for symposia hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and Fordham Law Review.
His scholarship has been published in leading law reviews, including the Yale Law Journal Forum, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Duke Law Journal Online, and Fordham Law Review.
In 2022, Professor Parikh was invited to join both the American Law Institute and the American College of Bankruptcy. He is one of fewer than 15 individuals to be admitted to both organizations.
On September 19, 2023, Professor Parikh testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the hearing topic, "Evading Accountability: Corporate Manipulation of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy." Further, On February 8, 2022, Professor Parikh was invited to testify before the Senate Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights. He provided a Written Congressional Statement on the hearing topic, "Corporate Efforts to Side-Step Accountability Through Bankruptcy." He frequently provides expert commentary for national media, including The Wall Street Journal, 60 Minutes (on background), The New York Times, Bloomberg News, NBC News, Law360, The Financial Times, and The Deal.
Professor Parikh's 2020 article, Bankruptcy Tourism and the European Union's Corporate Restructuring Quandary: The Cathedral in Another Light, was published in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law and is the culmination of his work as a Fulbright Schuman Scholar at Oxford University. The article was one of eight articles selected to be part of the Oxford Business Law Workshop Series (Trinity Term).
Professor Parikh is the Editor-in-Chief and an original contributing author for Bloomberg Law Bankruptcy Treatise.
Pro Bono Service and Academic Events:
Professor Parikh serves on the Fulbright Commission’s Peer Review Selection Committee and plays an integral role in awarding grants through the Fulbright program.
Along with Professors Robert Rasmussen and Michael Simkovic, Professor Parikh is a founding member of the Financial Restructuring Roundtable hosted by the University of Chicago Booth Business School, Duke Law School, USC Gould School of Law, and Wake Forest School of Law. The annual, invitation-only event brings together recognized business law scholars and practitioners to explore varied perspectives on financial restructuring issues.
Background:
Before joining the faculty at Lewis & Clark Law School, Professor Parikh practiced complex financial restructuring at Latham & Watkins and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in Los Angeles, California and Baker Botts in Houston, Texas. While in private practice, Professor Parikh’s representations included the following engagements:
In re Lehman Brothers Holdings (counsel to official committee of unsecured creditors)
In re Aloha Airlines (counsel to acquirer of assets)
In re Station Casinos (counsel to debtors)
In re Adelphia Communications Corp. (counsel to financial advisor)
Virgin Airlines (bankruptcy advisor)
In re Kmart (counsel to primary landlord)
Professor Parikh holds a JD from the University of Michigan Law School. After graduation, he was a law clerk for the Honorable Alan M. Ahart of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California.