Practice Areas
Business Law
Securities Law
Additional Practice Areas
  • Financial Restructuring & Bankruptcy
  • Hedge Funds
  • Leveraged Finance
  • Public Finance
  • Securitization & Structured Finance
  • Sports & Entertainment
  • Subprime Task Force
Professional Experience
Partner
Nixon Peabody LLP
Current
Education
Boston College Law School
J.D.
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Northwestern University
B.A.
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Professional Associations
Current
Activities: Mr. Berman is an active member of the Boston Bar Association, where he served as chairman of the Business Law Section from 1995 to 1997; Chairman of the Bankruptcy Law Committee from 1990 to 1992; a member of the Legislation Committee from 1999 to 2000; and where he is currently a member of the Bankruptcy Law Section’s Steering Committee. Mr. Berman is also a member of the American Bar Association, the Loan Syndication & Trading Association and the Turnaround Management Association. He is a Fellow of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation and is active in the American Bankruptcy Institute, where he is a member of the ABI World Editorial Board and co-chair of the 2003, 2004, and 2005 Northeast Bankruptcy Conferences. Recent articles prepared for the Journal of the American Bankruptcy Institute and presented at the American Bankruptcy Institute's Winter Leadership Conference in 2005 and 2006 have involved the subject intercreditor agreements and Second Lien Financings. Mr. Berman was appointed by the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to serve a five-year term as a member of the Client Security Board from 1997 to 2002, where he also served as Vice Chairman, Secretary, and Treasurer. Mr. Berman has taught courses on Business Law and Credit Law for the New England Chapter of the National Credit Institute (an affiliate of the National Association of Credit Management) and currently teaches an online course in those subjects for the National Association of Credit Management. He regularly writes about and speaks on bankruptcy and commercial law subjects in various parts of the country.
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Websites & Blogs
Website
Website
Contact & Map
100 Summer Street
100 Summer Street
Boston, MA 02110
Telephone: (617) 345-6037
Fax: (866) 382-5868