Neil E. Herman is a partner in Morgan Lewis Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Practice. For more than 25 years, Mr. Herman has represented debtors, as well as financial institutions, Official Creditors Committees, trustees and creditors in out-of-court restructurings and in bankruptcy matters. In addition, he has experience in representing landlords, real estate developers, and shopping center owners in bankruptcy matters. A substantial portion of his practice involves representing buyers of assets out of bankruptcy.Mr. Herman has lectured on bankruptcy topics at New York Law School, Hofstra Law School, and Columbia Business School and has been a panelist on numerous bankruptcy programs and seminars sponsored by the New York Law Journal, the Practicing Law Institute, the American Bar Association and the International Council of Shopping Centers. He has written and co-written numerous articles on bankruptcy and is the author of the extensive chapter on Retail Bankruptcies in the most recent Colliers on Bankruptcy treatise.Mr. Herman is a member of the Turnaround Management Association and has been recognized each year by New York Super Lawyers and was previously selected by Turnarounds and Workouts as a Top 40 under 40 practitioner. Mr. Herman has also been rated as AV Preeminent Peer-Review which is the highest rating available by Martindale-Hubbell.Mr. Herman received his J.D. from Hofstra University School of Law in 1985, where he was the recipient of the Benjamin Weintraub and Alan Resnick Bankruptcy Law Prize. He received his B.A. from Johns Hopkins University in 1981.Mr. Herman is admitted to practice in New York.