Edward E. Neiger

Biography

Ed is one of the few nationally recognized leaders in both bankruptcy and mass tort law.

He started off his career as a bankruptcy attorney, training under the legendary Harvey R. Miller, at the bankruptcy and litigation powerhouse Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. At Weil Ed earned his stripes working on the bankruptcies of Enron and WorldCom. In 2008, he founded his own law firm which then merged with ASK LLP in 2012.

Ed is currently co-managing partner of ASK, one of the leading mass tort, sexual abuse and bankruptcy law firms in the country, with client recoveries and settlements totaling more than $500 million.

Mass disaster and bankruptcy case involvement includes:

• PG&E, where Ed represented one of the former executives of The City of Paradise, ground zero for the California wildfires, and sat on the Official Torts Committee. He was one of six members of the settlement subcommittee which extracted a $12 billion settlement on behalf of wildfire victims;

• Boy Scouts of America, where he was one of the founders of the Coalition for Abused Scouting for Justice and helped negotiate a $2.8 billion settlement on behalf of sex abuse victims;

• Purdue Pharma and Mallinckrodt, where he successfully represented the Ad Hoc Committee of Individual Victims, comprised of over 60,000 victims of the opioid crisis, and helped negotiate a $1 billion settlement on their behalf.

Ed has devoted his career to standing up to powerful people, entities and government, taking an aggressive stance to fight and recover money for victims, including:

• Wildfire victims who experienced loss of family members and property;
• Prisoners sexually abused by prison guards;
• Children abused by clergy and other people in positions of power;

• Victims of the opioid crisis and their families;
• Victims of cancer-causing fire-foam and other “forever” chemicals;
• Teenage victims of Juul who became addicted;

Among many others.

Ed is also one of the nation’s leading attorneys representing creditors in bankruptcies. He has represented clients on over two hundred Official Committees of Unsecured Creditors, including in the bankruptcies of Revlon, The Weinstein Companies and J.C. Penney.

Education

Edward graduated from Touro College summa cum laude, where he served as the president of the Pre-Law Society and editor-in-chief of the Pre-Law Journal. He was awarded the Touro College Service and Leadership Award at graduation.

At Fordham Law School, he served on the Law Review and received the Archibald R. Murray Award for Public Service.

Affiliations

Edward is admitted to practice law before the Supreme Court of the United States, the Southern District of New York, the Eastern District of New York, and in the State of New York.

Ed is a former member of the board of the New York Institute of Credit, which awarded him with the first Annual Future Leader Award.

He is also on the Professional Ethics Committee and Bankruptcy Committee of the New York City Bar, and on the Unsecure Trade Creditors committee of the American Bankruptcy Institute.

Ed is an affiliate member on the Bankruptcy & Corporate Reorganization Committee