David M. Neff has a national practice encompassing both litigation and
transactions. In 2012, he argued for the petitioner in front of the U.S. Supreme
Court in the case of RadLAX Gateway Hotel v. Amalgamated Bank. He also
obtained a damage claim of almost $125 million for a client in the MSR
Resort bankruptcy case after two trials.
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 40 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' from 2005 through 2012 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 from 2007 through 2012.