Fred Neufeld is a senior associate in the financial restructuring group at Milbank Tweed, where he began his practice in 1990. He is a 1969 graduate of Columbia College (where he was a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow) and a 1990 graduate of Harvard Law School (cum laude). Fred regularly writes and speaks on bankruptcy topics and commercial law, and his articles have appeared in the Banking Law Journal and the American Bankruptcy Law Journal and have been cited with approval by several federal court decisions. He has made presentations on U.S. financial restructuring law to members of the National People's Congress of the P.R.C. responsible for reforming China's bankruptcy laws (2004), and to members of the civil division of the highest courts of Tunisia (2006). In June 2007, Fred led a program on bankruptcy basics for a diverse group of investment bankers, hedge fund managers and bank work-out officers in New York.
Fred has a diverse practice representing banks, hedge and private equity funds, syndicates of lenders and official creditors committees in chapter 11 cases in NY, Delaware, California, Michigan and Nevada. Most recently, he represented the successful bidder at the auction for the assets of chapter 11 debtor Radnor Holding Corp., and the related "loan-to-own" and "zone-of-insolvency" litigation reported at 353 B.R. 820 (Bankr. D. Del. 2006). Fred has also served as a member of the California State Bar Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct. |