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David
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Neff
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Firmwide Co-Chair, Hotels & Leisure Practice
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, 2007, 2008, and 2009 as the result of research projects conducted jointly by Law & Politics and Chicago magazines. The respected English publisher Chambers and Partners commented that he possesses "a knowledge of all of the nuances of the industry, not just of the law," and listed him in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business as one of the country’s leading hotel lawyers and one of Chicago’s leading bankruptcy lawyers in 2007, 2008, and 2009.
Professional Recognition
Professional Leadership
- Certified by the Institute for Conflict Management as a mediator and an arbitrator
- HotelNewsNow.com, Columnist
- Hotel Development Council of the Urban Land Institute, Member
- International Society of Hospitality Consultants, Chairman, 2005 - 2006
- American Bar Association Forum on Franchising, Member
- American Bankruptcy Institute, Member
- Chicago Bar Association, Bankruptcy and Reorganization Committee, President, 1998 - 1999
Related Employment
- DLA Piper, Partner, 2002 - 2007
- Jenner & Block, Partner, 1992 -2001
- Jenner & Block, Associate, 1986 - 1991
Clerkships
- Hon. Robert E. Ginsberg, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois, 1985 - 1986
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- DePaul University College of Law, J.D., 1985
- Northwestern University, B.S.J., 1982
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