Neil Lieberman represents financial institutions and other clients in complex commercial disputes, including contract, securities, bankruptcy, and ERISA matters. Neil also has represented financial institutions and individuals in wide-ranging investigations by federal and state regulators, including the Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, and the New York Attorney General, and has advised on related internal investigations. Neil was named an Elite Boutique Trailblazer by The National Law Journal and has been recognized by Benchmark Litigation for several years.
Neil’s complex financial litigation docket includes representing investors and bank trustees in RMBS repurchase litigations as member of the trial team that obtained a verdict of $2.4 billion from the Lehman estate. He also obtained summary judgment in favor of Freddie Mac in a CMBS dispute over the allocation of proceeds from the $5.3 billion sale of Stuyvesant Town—Peter Cooper Village, the largest multifamily housing project in New York City, which was affirmed by the Second Circuit. Neil also represents investors in distressed debt and fund litigation, including most recently as co-trial counsel for participating lenders in an “uptiering” transaction by Incora in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas and as trial counsel for lenders that challenged an uptiering transaction by Serta Simmons Bedding LLC. Neil also represented holders of defaulted Argentine debt as settling plaintiffs in the Southern District of New York and the Second Circuit, in support of the Republic of Argentina’s contested effort to lift the pari passu injunction that “holdout” bondholders had obtained against Argentina in the wake of its default.
Neil recently was co-trial counsel in a pro bono bench trial challenging the State of Arkansas’ methods of electing appellate judges under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and worked with the International Refugee Assistance Program for nine years to reunite an Iraqi refugee with his family in the United States.
Neil served as Holwell Shuster & Goldberg’s administrative partner from 2017 to 2021.
Prior to joining HSG, Neil was a litigation associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. Before law school, Neil worked for over a decade as an accountant for public accounting firms and in private industry.
Key Practice Areas: Banking & Financial Services; Business & Commercial; Securities; Trials
Year Joined Firm: 2013
Education/Alumni: Columbia Law School (J.D.), James Kent Scholar, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, submissions editor of the Columbia Business Law Review; Pennsylvania State University (B.S.)
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