Mr. Edward Neiger

Edward E. Neiger is a co-managing partner at ASK LLP in New York, where his practice focuses on representing unsecured trade creditors in complex bankruptcy cases and prosecuting and defending large preferences and fraudulent conveyance actions. He is a nationally recognized leader in both bankruptcy and mass tort law. Prior to joining ASK, Mr. Neiger founded Neiger LLP, where he represented clients in the bankruptcy cases of Lehman Brothers, American Airlines and General Motors, among others. Previously, he was in the bankruptcy group of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, where he worked on behalf of such debtors as Enron, Lehman Brothers, GM and PG&E, and he currently represents thousands of victims of Boy Scout sexual abuse, more than 50,000 victims of Purdue Pharma, and hundreds of victims of the Maui wildfires, among other victims in high-profile mass tort cases. Mr. Neiger is on the board of 2EndTheSitgma and works to help those suffering from addiction, including those incarcerated, get the help they need. At the same time, he fights to hold those responsible for the opioid crisis, especially governments and elected officials, accountable. In the past, Mr. Neiger helped Holocaust survivors recover monetary damages from the German government, including his own grandfather (all of his grandparents are Holocaust survivors and came to the U.S. as refugees after the Second World War). He is a member of the New York City Bar Association’s Imperfect History Committee, which explores and uncovers the racist roots of the NYC Bar Association, and in 2020, he was honored as one ABI’s “40 Under 40.” Mr. Neiger is the author of the New York Law Journal’s “Mass Torts Roundup” and “Bankruptcy Update” columns. He received his undergraduate degree summa cum laude from Touro College, where he served as the president of the Pre-Law Society and as editor-in-chief of the Pre-Law Journal, and his J.D. in 2004 from Fordham University, where he served on its law review.