Neil Lieberman represents financial institutions and other clients in complex commercial disputes before state and federal courts, 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 named a Future Star by Benchmark Litigation and New York Metro Super Lawyers for several years. Recently, Neil was named a Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyer.
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 successfully 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. The summary judgment win was affirmed by the Second Circuit.
Neil also represents investors in distressed debt and fund litigation, including the recent cutting-edge bankruptcy litigation surrounding “uptiering” transactions, a form of corporate debt restructuring that has exploded in popularity. In 2024, Neil served as co-lead trial counsel for participating lenders in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas concerning the validity of a restructuring undertaken by Incora. And in 2023, Neil was lead trial counsel for lenders that challenged an uptiering transaction by Serta Simmons Bedding LLC. Recent rulings by the Fifth Circuit and District Court for the Southern District of Texas in favor of HSG’s clients regarding the Serta and Incora transactions, respectively, will have major implications for corporate restructurings. He also represented holders of defaulted Argentine debt 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 was co-lead 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, for which IRAP recognized Neil and his HSG colleagues with an Excellent Litigation Team Award in 2024. He 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.
Updated Sep 2025
- Bankruptcy
- Commercial
- Commercial disputes
- Securities
- Banking
- Financial services
- J.D. - Columbia Law School
- Columbia Law School James Kent Scholar
- Columbia Law School Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
- Submissions Editor - Columbia Business Law Review
- B.S. in Accounting - Pennsylvania State University
- New York