Fred Neufeld is a senior associate in the Los Angeles office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and a member of the firm’s Financial Restructuring Group.
Primary Focus & Experience
Mr. Neufeld has a diverse practice representing debtors and creditors in chapter 11 cases in New York, Delaware, California, Michigan and Nevada. He has represented: companies in the healthcare, auto parts, chemical, mining, restaurant and gaming industries both in chapter 11 proceedings and out-of-court restructurings; agents for large loan syndicates; major banks in restructurings of mortgage-backed securitizations; buyers in Section 363 sales; Official Creditors Committees; and official and unofficial noteholder committees. He represented the successful lender defendants in the “loan-to-own” and “zone-of-insolvency” litigation reported at 353 B.R. 820 (Bankr. D. Del. 2006).
Recognition & Accomplishments
Mr. Neufeld is a graduate of Columbia College, where he was a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, and earned his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He has served as a member of the California State Bar Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct.
Mr. Neufeld regularly writes and speaks on bankruptcy topics and commercial law; 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. In recent years, he has made presentations on US financial restructuring law to: members of the National People’s Congress of the P.R.C. responsible for reforming China’s bankruptcy laws; members of the civil division of the highest courts of Tunisia; and groups of investment bankers, hedge fund managers and bank workout officers in New York.