Neal D.  Colton, Esq. Cozen O'Connor, Philadelphia Mr. Colton is a Shareholder and Senior Member of Cozen and O’Connor as well as Co-Chairman of Cozen and O’Connor’s Insolvency, Bankruptcy and Restructuring Group. Mr. Colton’s practice involves a broad range of corporate and litigation matters with special emphasis in international and domestic insolvency, creditors’ rights, bankruptcy, restructuring, reorganization, nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations, aircraft financing and aviation matters. He actively represents corporate debtors, secured and unsecured creditors’ committees, foreign representatives, landlords, equipment lessors and investors in large Chapter 11 cases throughout the United States, including debtor-in-possession lenders. Mr. Colton represents purchasers of entire businesses or business segments of troubled or failing enterprises both in and out of Chapter 11, institutional mortgages in major commercial real estate insolvencies and restructurings, as well as Leveraged Buy Outs, both in and out of Chapter 11. His practice also includes the counseling of lenders on lender liability matters and equitable subordination issues for which he has been an expert witness. In addition to being a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, the Commercial Law League of America and INSOL, Mr. Colton is a member of the American Bar Association’s Section of Business Law, Business Bankruptcy Committee and its subcommittees on Chapter 11, Executory Contracts and Secured Creditors, and the Section’s Commercial Financial Services Committee, and its subcommittees on Creditors’ Rights and Aircraft Financing. He also is a member of the American Bar Association’s Section of Litigation and its Bankruptcy and Insolvency Committee. Mr. Colton is currently an adjunct Professor of Law at Temple University School of Law, where he has taught the course on Chapter 11 Reorganizations since 1989. He is a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School Graduate Entrepreneurial Center, the American Bankruptcy Institute’s, the Philadelphia Bar Association’s and the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s Continuing Legal Education programs and the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ educational programs. Mr. Colton was a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s task force assigned to redraft Pennsylvania’s Fraudulent Transfer Act and has been selected as a panelist by the Third Circuit Judicial Conference. From 1970 until September, 1995, he practiced law with the Philadelphia-based law firm of Dechert Price and Rhoads where he became partner in 1978 and from that time to his joining Cozen and O’Connor, he was Chairman of its Bankruptcy Department. Mr. Colton has been certified as a Business Bankruptcy Specialist by the American Board of Certification, and is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy, a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a member of the Council of Certified Bankruptcy Specialists, a Mediator for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, a Director of the Consumer Bankruptcy Assistance Project, a Member of the Steering Committee of the Eastern District Bankruptcy Conference, a Trustee of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Greater Delaware Valley Chapter, and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America. Mr. Colton graduated from the University of Pittsburgh (A.B., 1965), Columbia University Graduate School of Business (M.B.A., 1967), and Temple University School of Law (J.D., 1970).