Mr. David M. Neff

David M. Neff is a partner in the Chicago office of Perkins Coie LLP, where he focuses on both litigation and transactions and represents debtors, lenders, individual creditors and creditors? committees in all types of bankruptcies throughout the country. In 2012, he argued for the petitioner in front of the U.S.Supreme Court in RadLAX Gateway Hotel v. Amalgamated Bank. That same year, he also obtained a damage claim of almost $125 million for a client in the MSR Resorts bankruptcy case after two trials.Mr. Neff is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and an adjunct professor at NorthwesternUniversity Pritzker School of Law. He has been designated an Illinois Super Lawyer from 2005-17, andChambers USA has listed him as one of the leading Chicago bankruptcy lawyers from 2007-17. Mr. Neffis a past president of the Chicago Bar Association Bankruptcies and Reorganization Committee and has spoken often at the Norton Bankruptcy Litigation Institute and for ABI. He has particular experience in the hotel industry, where he has represented major parties in more than 50 hotel bankruptcy cases throughout the country and many out-of-court restructurings. He also has a specialty in professional partnership dissolutions and bankruptcies and has represented five law firms in such matters. In addition, he has authored law review articles on hotel bankruptcies, professional partnership bankruptcy and dissolution matters, and landlord/tenant bankruptcy issues. Mr. Neff received his B.S. in journalism from Northwestern University in 1982 and his J.D. from DePaul University College of Law in 1985.