
As an owner of Deeb Petrakis Blum & Murphy for more than 20 years, Peter J. Deeb has more than two decades’ of trial experience. He serves as head of the Firm’s Workout Group and leads a team of attorneys focused on commercial litigation and transactional practice, with an emphasis on complex commercial matters. Through experience combined with resources, drive and wisdom, Mr. Deeb offers organizations a strategic business advantage.
Mr. Deeb has extensive trial experience in commercial litigation and other forms of complex litigation. He routinely represents clients, such as financial institutions, leasing companies, and other corporations and business entities, in disputes involving breach of contract, interference in contract, and fraud and lender liability. His experience in commercial litigation is as varied as the representation of a software company against a national distributor of its product, to the representation of a facility management company in a dispute with a vendor spanning multiple jurisdictions.
Mr. Deeb also represents financial institutions with respect to creditor’s rights, including negotiation and documentation of workout agreements, protection of collateral and replevin, deficiency litigation against debtors, and guarantors and disposition of collateral. He is experienced in the documentation of equipment lease transactions, program agreements, and the wide variety of documents utilized in the equipment leasing industry.
Finally, Mr. Deeb has defended investigations by the Attorney General’s offices of multiple states, as well as defending litigation instituted by Attorney General’s offices regarding consumer protection statutes. His experience in litigating with the offices of various Attorney Generals includes multi-district litigation and related class actions.