Mark Berman

Mark N. Berman is a Partner in the Financial Restructuring & Bankruptcy Practice Group and supports the Securitization and Structured Finance Team, the Leveraged Finance Team and the Public Finance Group at Nixon Peabody in Boston, Massachusetts. Over his more than 30 year career, Mr. Berman has represented virtually every kind of interest that might be involved with a financially troubled business or individual. He also participates in the firm's Hedge Fund Initiative. He supports those groups by applying his bankruptcy expertise to their transactional efforts. Mr. Berman assists in structuring the transaction, drafting appropriate disclosure materials, working with rating agencies to create acceptable bankruptcy remote entities, as well as with "true sale" "nonconsolidation" and other bankruptcy opinions. In that capacity, his work has included the financing of stadiums, regional malls, military housing, tobacco securitizations and gas prepay facilities. Mr. Berman regularly writes about and speaks on bankruptcy and commercial law subjects in various parts of the country, including “LLC Member Interest and Bankruptcy: Courts Begin to Sort Things Out,” “Buying and Selling a Distressed Business,” and "Hedge Funds Meet the Bankruptcy Process." He received his BA from Northwestern University and his JD from Boston College Law School. (This is me - Update Profile)