David W. Criswell

David W. Criswell is a Portland, Oregon attorney who focuses on business bankruptcy, receiverships, loan workouts and recoveries, loan documentation, and real estate matters. He represents trustees, secured lenders, purchasers, receivers, borrowers, and other participants in complex financial situations. His work also includes advising special servicers, community and regional banks, distressed asset purchasers, and bridge lenders on loan recoveries, asset acquisitions, documentation, and related financial services issues.

David earned a B.A. from Dartmouth College in 1986 and a J.D., cum laude, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1989. His legal education supports a practice that requires careful analysis of financial obligations, secured transactions, insolvency issues, and real estate concerns. He is admitted in Oregon and Washington and has also been admitted in Wisconsin and Illinois, where his status is currently inactive.

David has handled a broad range of bankruptcy and creditors’ rights matters. His experience includes representing a receiver in a cross-border Oregon receivership and CCAA proceeding involving the going-concern sale of a vertically integrated cannabis business. He has represented special servicers in receiverships, foreclosures, and Chapter 11 cases, as well as Chapter 11 trustees in sales involving a senior housing facility and a kit aircraft manufacturer. He has also worked with CMBS lenders, debtors in possession, secured lenders, purchasers, and agricultural businesses in complex insolvency proceedings.

David W. Criswell has received recognition for his bankruptcy and restructuring practice, including Chambers USA recognition as a Leader in Their Field for Bankruptcy/Restructuring in Oregon from 2022 through 2025. He has also been included in The Best Lawyers in America for bankruptcy and creditor-debtor rights since 2015 and selected as an Oregon Super Lawyer for multiple years. His practice combines extensive insolvency experience with practical guidance for clients facing complicated financial and real estate challenges.

Law Office Affiliations

• Partner, Miller Nash LLP
• Member, Oregon State Bar
• Member, Washington Bar Association

Licensed State

• Oregon
• Washington

Education

• University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Juris Doctor (JD) Cum Laude
• Dartmouth College
  Bachelor of Arts

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