Friedman Kaplan, together with the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, filed an amicus brief on behalf of 15 leading Founding Era historians in the landmark United States Supreme Court case Trump v. United States. More

Partners Anne E. Beaumont, Stan Chiueh, and Mala Ahuja Harker have been selected as members of Law360’s 2024 editorial advisory boards, through which they will provide Law360 with input and feedback on its coverage and share insights on how to best shape future coverage in their respective areas. More

Friedman Kaplan proudly announces that Rahul Agarwal has returned to the firm as a partner following twelve years of government service in New York and New Jersey. Rahul is an accomplished trial lawyer and a seasoned litigator with a multi-faceted practice focused on representing corporate and individual clients in a variety of white collar defense and investigations matters as well as in connection with complex commercial litigation and crisis management. More

Friedman Kaplan is proud to announce that David J. Ranzenhofer has become a partner of the firm and that Geoffrey Cajigas and Anil K. Vassanji have each been promoted to counsel positions. More

Friedman Kaplan is proud to announce the promotion of litigator Blair Albom to counsel. “Blair has been an invaluable contributor to our firm for many years, both by virtue of her exceptional work on behalf of our clients and because of her deep dedication to the firm’s culture. She is a talented lawyer and wonderful colleague, and we are thrilled to recognize her with this well-deserved promotion,” said Management Committee member Jeffrey Wang. More

Eric Corngold, Edward Friedman, Lance Gotko, Bruce Kaplan, and Eric Seiler are recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® guide’s 2024 New York, NY listings, and Elizabeth Bierut, Bria Delaney, Alexandra Elenowitz-Hess, and Jake Lewis are recognized in the New York, NY listings of the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America. More

Partner Priyanka Wityk has joined the editorial board of the Women Lawyers Journal, which focuses on issues relevant to women in the law and strives to drive coalition and community among women lawyers across the country and the world. More

Friedman Kaplan partner and Management Committee member Mala Ahuja Harker was recognized by Crain’s New York Business in its 2023 Notable Women in Law list, which highlights 100 leading female lawyers in the New York City metropolitan area. More

Friedman Kaplan senior counsel Steven M. Pesner, P.C. has been named to the 2023 list of Client Service All-Stars by The BTI Consulting Group. Among those recognized, Steve is one of only 83 attorneys in the country designated as an “Elite MVP” for earning All-Star status in two consecutive years. More

Friedman Kaplan is recognized in the 2023 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 2023 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, Jason Rubinstein, and Eric Seiler are recognized individually for Commercial Litigation, and partners Eric Corngold, Mary Mulligan, Mala Ahuja Harker, and counsel Bonnie Baker are individually listed in the White-Collar Crime and Government Investigations category. More

Litigation associate Scott Henney was recently elected to serve on the Board of Directors for the New York County Lawyers Association (NYCLA). Scott also serves as co-chair to NYCLA’s Appellate Courts Committee, which received NYCLA’s 2023 Eppler Prize. More

BTI Consulting Group has recognized Friedman Kaplan as part of its Client Service 200 list in its recently released report, BTI Client Service A-Team: Survey of Law Firm Client Service Performance 2023. Friedman Kaplan was also one of only 50 law firms named as BTI Midsize Client Service Masters. More

Friedman Kaplan’s client, the Official Stanford Investors Committee, achieved a series of major settlements to end long-running litigation arising out of R. Allen Stanford’s Ponzi scheme, which ended in 2009 and was one of the largest financial frauds in U.S. history. More

With great pleasure, we announce that our firm will now be known as Friedman Kaplan Seiler Adelman & Robbins LLP. The addition of partner Lawrence Robbins to the firm’s name recognizes his stellar career as a renowned litigator with a multi-faceted practice including high-stakes complex commercial and bankruptcy litigation, high-profile investigations, twenty arguments before the United States Supreme Court, and many important pro bono matters, as well as Larry’s major contributions to our firm since joining the partnership last year. More

Friedman Kaplan is pleased to announce that partner Mary Mulligan will be co-head of the firm’s Chambers and Legal 500-recognized white collar criminal defense practice. She has distinguished herself as a leader in the white collar defense bar and joins partner Eric Corngold in overseeing the group. More

Friedman Kaplan is proud to announce the promotions of Elizabeth Bierut and David Ranzenhofer to counsel. More

Litigation associates Scott H. Henney and Alexandra G. Elenowitz-Hess helped author a recent report issued by the Appellate Courts Committee of the New York County Lawyers Association (NYCLA). The report provides non-partisan, objective information about each of the seven candidates in consideration to be nominated by New York Governor Kathy Hochul to fill the Chief Judge vacancy on the New York Court of Appeals. More

Friedman Kaplan is proud to announce that litigators Timothy Haggerty, Alexander Levi, Michael Palmieri, and Priyanka Wityk have been named to the partnership of the firm. More

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

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

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

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