Neff, David M.

Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

David M. Neff has a sophisticated practice encompassing both litigation and transactions.

He represents debtors, lenders, individual creditors, and creditors committees in all types of bankruptcies throughout the country. He is a past president of the Chicago Bar Association Bankruptcies and Reorganization Committee and has spoken often at the Norton Bankruptcy Litigation Institute and for the American Bankruptcy Institute. David has particular experience in the hotel industry, where he has represented major parties in more than 30 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 often represents landlords in major retail bankruptcies. David also has authored law review articles on hotel bankruptcies, professional partnership bankruptcy and dissolution matters, and landlord-tenant bankruptcy issues.

In addition to his bankruptcy practice, David is one of the leading lawyers in the country in the hotel industry, representing some of the largest hotel owners, franchisees, and management companies in all types of matters, including litigation, strategic planning, acquisitions and contract negotiations and drafting. He has authored numerous articles for hotel industry publications and has spoken frequently at hotel industry conferences. Also, David is a former chairman of the International Society of Hospitality Consultants and a current member of the Hotel Development Council of the Urban Land Institute.

David has been designated an Illinois Super Lawyer in 2005, 2006 and 2007, as the result of research projects conducted jointly by Law & Politics and Chicago magazines. In 2007, the respected English publisher Chambers and Partners listed him in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business as one of the leading hotel lawyers in the country, commenting that he possesses "a knowledge of all of the nuances of the industry, not just of the law." Chambers also listed him as one of the leading bankruptcy lawyers in Chicago.

Areas of Practice

• Real Estate
• Litigation
• Arbitration
• Corporate Finance
• Hotels & Leisure
• Bankruptcy & Workouts

West Practice Categories

Lending & Secured Transactions, Bankruptcy Law, Creditors' Rights

Bar Admissions

• Illinois

Professional Associations and Memberships

• International Society of Hospitality Consultants (President)
• American Bar Association, Probate and Trust Law Section (Hotel and Hospitality Issues, Subcommittee of the Real Property)
• American Bar Association, Litigation Section (Co-Chair, Publications, Bankruptcy and Insolvency Subcommittee)
• Forum on Franchising
• Illinois Bankruptcy Liaison
• Seventh Circuit Bar Association
• American Bankruptcy Institute
• Chicago Bar Association, 1998 - 1999 (Past Chair, Bankruptcy and Reorganization Committee)

Past Employment Positions

• Hon. Robert E. Ginsberg, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Illinois, Law Clerk, 1985 - 1986

Education

• DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, Illinois, 1985
  J.D.
• Northwestern University, 1982
  B.S.J.

Address

131 South Dearborn Street
Suite 1700
Chicago, IL 60603-5559

Phones

(312) 324-8689

Faxes

(312) 324-9689

Emails

dneff@perkinscoie.com

Websites

http://www.perkinscoie.com