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Peter Antonelli

Of Counsel

Fort Myers
1617 Hendry Street
Suite 400
Fort Myers, FL 33901
P: 239.427.3118 239.427.3118
F: 239.337.0970
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Peter provides clients with valuable, results-driven advice and zealous representation, handling varied and complex business disputes, commercial matters and bankruptcy and non-bankruptcy litigation and appellate matters. During his two decades of practice, Peter has litigated regularly in federal, bankruptcy, appellate and state courts across the country, representing investors, companies, bankruptcy trustees, institutions, and individuals. He has prosecuted fraudulent transfer actions, cross-border arbitral and judgment enforcement actions, commercial business disputes, complex real estate litigation, fraud claims, bankruptcy avoidance, recovery, dischargeability and discharge actions and many other types of cases. Peter is experienced in multi-jurisdictional asset recovery and judgment enforcement both in the US and across non US jurisdictions. Many of his cases have involved novel and complex legal issues and theories, complicated factual circumstances, difficult procedural, evidentiary and discovery issues and jurisdictional and cross-border conflicts.

Experience
  • Briefed and argued successful appellate opposition on appeal of federal trial verdict and judgment in cross-border fraudulent transfer action that affirmed $20 million plus jury trial award to Connecticut bankruptcy trustee and further successfully opposed petition for certiorari in US Supreme Court. Coan v. Dunne (In re Sean Dunne), 2023 U.S. App. LEXIS 28592 (2d Cir. Oct. 27, 2023) (cert. denied June 24, 2024)
  • Represented creditor in cross-border foreign arbitral award recognition action under FAA in connection with $30 million UK seated arbitral award, with further parallel proceedings in Europe. RSS Judgment Enforcement LLC v Symbion Power Tanzania Limited et al. (S.D. N.Y. 2021)
  • Litigated and tried complex land use and tidelands dispute on behalf of historic Boston waterfront condominium association enforcing deed use restrictions, covenants and easement against abutting hotel marina. Commercial Wharf E. Condo. Ass'n v. Mumford, 24 LCR 776 (Mass. Land Ct. 2016) (affirmed, in part, 93 Mass. App. Ct. 523 (2018))
  • Briefed successful appellate oppositions in the Second Circuit and Southern District of New York to bankruptcy court’s trial judgment in complex bankruptcy debtor’s alter ego fraud case, establishing binding bankruptcy law precedent. Gasson v. Premier Capital, LLC (In re Gasson), 43 F.4th 37 (2d Cir. 2022)
  • Successfully obtained summary judgment exceeding million dollars in Massachusetts District Court in UCC sale of goods merchant dispute and on-brief in successful First Circuit Court of appeals decision that affirmed summary judgment and conducted further proceedings to collect from judgment debtor. ITV Direct, Inc. v. Healthy Sols., LLC, 445 F.3d 66 (1st Cir. 2006)
  • Represented government of Ireland's bank restructuring agency NAMA in Chapter 7 bankruptcy of prominent Irish developer Sean Dunne, aka "The Baron of Ballsbridge", with debts in excess of 900 Million Euro and prosecuting § 727 fraudulent concealment litigation that led to Debtor waiving his bankruptcy discharge. In re Dunne (Bankr. D. Conn. 2013-2018)
  • Briefed successful appellate opposition in Massachusetts Supreme Judicial to judgment creditor’s attempts to challenge trial court proceedings. Suburban Elec. Contracting, Inc. v. Ozdemir, 492 Mass. 1016, 209 N.E.3d 537 (2023)
  • Represented foreign purchaser of intellectual property assets in § 363 sale of pharmaceutical debtor's Chapter 7 liquidation. In re Gelesis Holdings, Inc. (Bankr. Del. 2024)
  • Represented secured creditor in lien dispute with IRS and Chapter 7 Trustee and with credit bid for IP assets in liquidation of debtor as well as in separate § 727 trial of debtor's guarantor principals denying discharges in their personal bankruptcy cases. In re Sky-Skan, Inc. (Bankr. D. N.H. 2023)
  • Tried and successfully defended appeals in First Circuit Court of Appeals and District Court affirming bankruptcy court judgment after conducting trial in bankruptcy fraud case. Premier Capital, LLC v. Crawford (In re Crawford), 841 F.3d 1 (1st Cir. 2016)
  • Tried and successfully defended appeal in District Court affirming Bankruptcy Court’s judgment after trial in bankruptcy fraud case. Premier Capital, LLC v. Zahoruiko (In re Zahoruiko), 518 B.R. 160 (D. Mass. 2014)
  • Obtained Federal District Court appellate reversal of adverse Social Security disability decision by Administrative Law Judge against client and on remand obtained benefit award for client before ALJ. Sullivan v. Saul, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 134339 (D. Mass. July 29, 2020)
  • Successfully tried bankruptcy fraud case denying discharge to debtor for concealing assets. Sutherland Asset I, LLC v. Franco (In re Franco), 2021 Bankr. LEXIS 3343 (Bankr. D. Conn. Dec. 8, 2021)
  • Represented individual in suit against historic cooperative apartment building and board members for alleged wrongful denial of purchase of coop unit in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood with case settling during jury trial. Walsh v. Winthrop (Mass. Super. Ct. 2008)
Languages
  • Italian