Friedman Kaplan proudly announces that Lawrence S. Robbins has joined the firm as a partner effective August 23, 2022. Mr. Robbins’ work includes sophisticated, high-stakes complex commercial litigation and bankruptcy litigation, as well as high-profile white collar and investigations representations, including appeals. More

Eric Corngold, Edward Friedman, Bruce Kaplan, and Eric Seiler are each recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® guide’s 2023 New York, NY listings. Mr. Corngold is recognized in the white collar criminal defense category, while Mr. Friedman, Mr. Kaplan, and Mr. Seiler are listed in the commercial litigation category. Mr. Seiler also is recognized in arbitration and bankruptcy litigation. More

As part of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity’s Leaders at the Front initiative, Friedman Kaplan Management Committee member Mala Ahuja Harker made a public pledge of her personal and the firm’s commitment to DEI, which details specific, meaningful, and measurable goals to advance diversity in our firm and the legal profession. More

Friedman Kaplan partner and Management Committee member Mala Ahuja Harker was recognized by Crain’s New York Business in its inaugural Notable Diverse Leaders in Law list. More

Friedman Kaplan is recognized in the 2022 edition of The Legal 500 United States in its general commercial disputes listing as well as in the corporate investigations and white collar criminal defense section, in which the firm is ranked in the “advice to individuals” category as well as recognized as a firm to watch in the “advice to corporates” category. More

Friedman Kaplan is ranked in the 2022 edition of Chambers USA in its General Commercial Litigation and White-Collar Crime and Government Investigations categories in New York. Further, partners Anne Beaumont, Edward Friedman, and Eric Seiler are recognized individually for Commercial Litigation, and partners Eric Corngold, Mala Ahuja Harker, and Mary Mulligan and counsel Bonnie Baker are individually listed in the White-Collar Crime and Government Investigations category. More

Litigation partner Stan Chiueh has been selected as a member of Law360's 2022 Bankruptcy Editorial Advisory Board, and litigation associate Anil Vassanji has been selected to Law360's 2022 Access to Justice Editorial Advisory Board. More

Three Friedman Kaplan associates have been selected to participate in the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) 2022 Fellow and Pathfinder programs. Elizabeth Bierut will join LCLD’s 2022 class of Fellows, and Bria D. Delaney and Dielai Yang have been selected to join LCLD’s 2022 class of Pathfinders. More

Friedman Kaplan, along with the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown University Law Center, obtained a major pro bono victory affecting millions of people around the world when the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia vacated a rule implemented by the Trump Administration that significantly hampered the Diversity Immigrant Visa program.  More

Friedman Kaplan senior counsel Steven M. Pesner, P.C. has been named to the 2022 list of Client Service All-Stars by The BTI Consulting Group. Now in its 21st year of publication, BTI’s Client Service All-Stars list is based solely on unprompted feedback from in-depth telephone interviews with top legal decision makers at large and Fortune 1000 organizations. More

Friedman Kaplan obtained a decisive victory on behalf of certain former directors and officers of generic pharmaceutical distributor Aceto Corp. by obtaining the dismissal of a putative shareholder class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, which was then upheld on appeal. More

Friedman Kaplan represented sub-meter resolution satellite imagery collection leader Satellogic in connection with a $150 million investment by private equity firm Liberty Strategic Capital (“Liberty”), founded and led by former U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin. More

Friedman Kaplan recently advised its clients PAVmed Inc. and its majority-owned subsidiary Lucid Diagnostics Inc. (“Lucid”) on various aspects of Lucid’s recently consummated initial public offering.  Corporate partner Michael Gordon led Friedman Kaplan’s representation on the transaction. More

Friedman Kaplan is proud to announce Priyanka Wityk has been promoted to counsel. Ms. Wityk, who joined the firm as a litigation associate in 2016, represents financial institutions and public and private companies in connection with complex commercial disputes involving antitrust, contract, securities, bankruptcy, and other issues. More

Friedman Kaplan, along with Greenberg Traurig, LLP, represented Nettar Group, Inc. d/b/a Satellogic ("Satellogic"), a leader in high-resolution satellite data collection, in connection with the execution of a definitive business combination with CF Acquisition Corp. V, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) sponsored by Cantor Fitzgerald. More

Friedman Kaplan is pleased to announce that the firm has been recognized in the 2021 edition of The Legal 500 United States in its Corporate Investigations and White Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Individuals category. More

Friedman Kaplan has joined the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD), an organization committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in the legal profession. Priyanka Wityk was selected to join LCLD's 2021 class of Fellows, and Anil Vassanji and Danielle Tepper were selected to participate in LCLD's 2021 Pathfinder program. Mala Ahuja Harker will serve as the firm's Management Committee representative to LCLD. More

Litigation partner Stan Chiueh has been selected as a member of Law360's 2021 Bankruptcy Editorial Advisory Board. More

Friedman Kaplan is proud to welcome two new associates to our litigation group, Bria Delaney and Dielai Yang More

Friedman Kaplan’s LIBOR Transition Task Force head and litigation partner Anne E. Beaumont recently commented on developments in the transition away from LIBOR in multiple publications, including Bloomberg, Risk.net, and IFLR Practice Insight. More

Friedman Kaplan is proud to announce our participation in the newly formed Law Firm Antiracism Alliance (LFAA). More

Friedman Kaplan partners Eric Corngold and Anne E. Beaumont represented Freedom House, a nonprofit organization, in obtaining access to a fund that had been restricted pursuant to a 2006 court order. More

Friedman Kaplan is proud to announce the election of Stan Chiueh and Andrew Englander to the partnership as well as the promotions of Jamuna Kelley, Alexander Levi, and Michael Palmieri to counsel. More

In a recent Wall Street Journal article, Friedman Kaplan litigation partner and leader of its LIBOR Transition Task Force Anne Beaumont discussed the impact of the Federal Reserve's decision to abandon a requirement that loans issued under the Main Street Lending Program use the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) to set the rate of interest. More

In a recent webinar hosted by the Investment Management Due Diligence Association, litigation partners Anne Beaumont  and Scott Berman discussed key considerations for private fund investors navigating the coronavirus crisis, a summary of which was then published by the Hedge Fund Law Report. More

Friedman Kaplan litigation partner Anne Beaumont was quoted extensively in two articles in ACA Compliance Group’s January 6, 2020 issue of ACA Insight. More

A matter in which Friedman Kaplan Partner Mary Mulligan, Counsel Bonnie Baker, and Associate Nora Bojar recently represented a UK national in defense of charges of fraud, bribery, and money laundering has been nominated by Global Investigations Review for its Most Important Court Case of the Year award. More

After a lengthy trial spanning almost three years and including the testimony of 73 witnesses, a Greek court today acquitted Friedman Kaplan's client, a UK national, of charges of fraud, bribery, and money laundering. More

New York’s Court of Appeals has issued a landmark decision in favor of Friedman Kaplan’s clients regarding the interpretation of New York statutory law. More

On April 29 and 30th, Friedman Kaplan partners Anne Beaumont and Asaf Reindel spoke at the GAIM Ops Cayman conference. Ms. Beaumont moderated a panel titled "You Will Be Hacked: Practical Lessons in Preparing for and Responding to Cyber Incidents," and Mr. Reindel spoke at a speaker-hosted lunch table titled "How Fund Managers Can Prepare for the Anticipated End of LIBOR."  More

Friedman Kaplan client, FlightSafety International Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway company, has formed a joint venture with TRU Simulation + Training Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company. The new company will provide training services for Textron Aviation‘s broad product line of business and general aviation aircraft. It will offer training for 48 aircraft models at 16 locations, using a fleet of 89 simulators. More

SDNY Chief Bankruptcy Judge Cecelia Morris has issued a decisive ruling in favor of Friedman Kaplan client the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust (the “Manville Trust”), resolving in the Manville Trust’s favor a series of legal questions arising from a claim made by Thorpe Insulation Company Asbestos Settlement Trust (the “Thorpe Trust”), seeking indemnification for millions of dollars in payments it had made to approximately 5,000 asbestos health claimants in California between 2010 and 2017. More

The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York has confirmed Nine West Holdings' Third Amended Joint Plan of Reorganization after nearly eleven highly contentious months of proceedings. Friedman Kaplan represented the indenture trustee for Nine West’s $250 million senior unsecured notes due in 2034. More

Friedman Kaplan is pleased to announce the promotion of Andrew Englander to Counsel. Mr. Englander joined the firm as an Associate in 2013, and since that time has represented major public and private companies as well as officers and directors in connection with complex commercial litigation matters, including with regard to issues of fiduciary duty. He also represents companies and individuals in internal investigations and in white collar criminal matters. More

Friedman Kaplan has formed a LIBOR Transition Task Force, led by litigation partner Anne Beaumont, to study and prepare for the expected cessation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), which will occur no later than the end of 2021—and perhaps sooner. Given LIBOR’s pervasive use, the consequences of its permanent discontinuation will be felt—for better or worse—throughout the financial markets. As one market participant recently observed, “a misstep could have substantial consequences for investors globally.” More

Effective December 21, 2018, Friedman Kaplan partners Anne E. Beaumont, Michael A. Gordon, Mala Ahuja Harker, Jason C. Rubinstein, and Jeffrey R. Wang will join the firm’s newly formed Management Committee, taking over responsibility for firm management from longtime Managing Partner and founder Eric Seiler. More

Friedman Kaplan is pleased to announce that Joel I. Frank has joined our partnership. Mr. Frank will be a partner in our corporate department and will focus on securities matters. More

The Wireless History Foundation inducted FK partner Barry Adelman into its Hall of Fame at its Awards Dinner in Los Angeles on September 12th. More

Justice Saliann Scarpulla of the Supreme Court of New York, New York County, issued a decision handing a resounding victory to Friedman Kaplan’s client All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd. and its affiliates (together, “ANA”) in a case filed against ANA, Japan’s largest airline, by a former supplier, Kyowa Seni, Co., Ltd. (“Kyowa”).  More

Friedman Kaplan partner Christopher Colorado on June 27 participated in an American Bar Association Section of Litigation panel entitled Virtual Currency: Current Regulatory and Civil Litigation Trends.  More

Michael Miller, President of the New York State Bar Association, announced today that Friedman Kaplan partner and former New York Court of Appeals Judge the Hon. Robert S. Smith (Ret.) and former New York State Supreme Court Justice the Hon. Barry Kamins (Ret.) will co-chair a task force on wrongful convictions for the bar association. Their mission will be "to update the 2009 report with recommendations based upon new developments, technology, science, experience and judicial decisions, and make affirmative recommendations to reduce the likelihood of wrongful convictions," said Mr. Miller. More

Friedman Kaplan client PAVmed Inc., a multi-product medical device company, announced it has finalized a definitive licensing agreement with Case Western Reserve University to develop and commercialize its EsoCheck technology, a rapid office-based alternative to diagnostic endoscopy that combines a non-invasive cell sampling device with a DNA biomarker test. More

Mr. Reindel, who will lead the firm's Israel practice, represents public and private companies in connection with domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and debt financings, and private equity funds and hedge funds in connection with their investments, contracts, and compliance issues.  More

On May 11, Friedman Kaplan partner Ricardo Solano, Jr. was honored by Seton Hall Law School with its Exemplary Service Award. The award recognizes alumni who have been especially involved with and supportive of Seton Hall Law following their graduation.  More

Friedman Kaplan is proud to announce that staff attorney Bonnie Baker has been promoted to counsel.  More