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 has been named to Bloomberg Law’s inaugural Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) Framework as one of 28 U.S.-based law firms recognized for its level of disclosure of diversity-related metrics and distinguished performance against six core pillars: demographics, leadership and talent pipeline, recruitment and retention, business innovation and strategy, marketing, and diversity & inclusion in the community. 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