Friedman Kaplan is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Legal 500 United States, with rankings in three categories: general commercial disputes, corporate investigations and white collar criminal defense – advice to corporates, and corporate investigations and white collar criminal defense – advice to individuals. More

Chambers USA ranks Friedman Kaplan in the “Elite” sections of the General Commercial Litigation and White Collar Crime and Government Investigations categories in New York and in New Jersey’s White Collar Crime and Government Investigations table. Ten Friedman Kaplan attorneys are also individually recognized, with Eric Seiler, Edward Friedman, Anne Beaumont, and Jason Rubinstein ranked for their commercial litigation practices and Mary Mulligan, Eric Corngold, Mala Ahuja Harker, Rahul Agarwal, Tim Haggerty, and Bonnie Baker recognized for their white collar defense practices. More

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was recently arrested by federal agents, detained, and charged by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey by criminal complaint with trespassing at a migrant detention facility in Newark. Friedman Kaplan partner Rahul Agarwal, along with co-counsel Raymond Brown and Wanda Akin, defended Mayor Baraka, ultimately securing the dismissal, with prejudice, of the charge, in just under two weeks. More

A team of Friedman Kaplan litigators led by partner Anne E. Beaumont completed an expedited trial of a Section 225 action in the Delaware Court of Chancery which challenged a 2024 liability management exercise undertaken by Del Monte Foods, Inc. with an ad hoc group of its first-lien lenders. In April 2025, the day before closing arguments, the parties entered into a settlement. More

Mondaire Jones has joined the firm as a partner. A former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Mondaire brings a wealth of legal and public service experience to the firm. He will represent clients across a range of complex commercial litigation and government investigations matters, as well as advise on strategic, policy, and crisis management issues. More

As part of its celebration of Women’s History Month, New York’s Westchester County Board of Legislators honored Friedman Kaplan litigation partner Katherine L. Pringle for her leadership and volunteer efforts for the non-profit organization Bread for the World, and her dedicated community service for local events and programs in Pelham, NY. More

Partners Stan Chiueh, Timothy M. Haggerty, and Mala Ahuja Harker have been selected as members of Law360’s 2025 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 played a critical role in high-profile litigation that followed in the wake of an “uptier” transaction negotiated by distressed bedding manufacturer Serta Simmons Bedding with certain of its lenders under an existing debt facility. The resulting liability management transaction became the subject of hotly contested litigation during Serta’s 2023 Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. Friedman Kaplan, along with Paul Weiss and Porter Hedges, represented a group of excluded lenders in extremely expedited litigation and through trial in Houston, Texas. More

Friedman Kaplan obtained the dismissal with prejudice of an $85 million lawsuit that was initially filed in 2021 by a New York City construction developer against now defunct Signature Bank and several of its subsidiaries. In its decision, a New York federal court enforced several provisions in Signature Bank’s account agreement that barred the developer's claims, and the dismissal is a complete victory for Friedman Kaplan’s client, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation as Receiver for Signature Bank. More

Friedman Kaplan proudly announces that litigator Elizabeth Bierut has become a partner of the firm. More

Friedman Kaplan recently filed an amicus brief on behalf of a coalition of distinguished legal scholars in Smith & Wesson Brands., et. al. vs. Estados Unidos Mexicanos, the first case in which the U.S. Supreme Court will consider the scope of a federal law that provides broad – but not absolute – immunity to gun manufacturers and sellers whose products are used to commit acts of violence. More

Friedman Kaplan mourns the loss of our partner Larry Robbins, who passed away on November 2, 2024. He was 72. More

In March 2024, Friedman Kaplan filed an amicus brief on behalf of the Leadership Now Project advocating in favor of the New York Early Mail Voter Act allowing all New York voters to cast ballots by mail during the early voting period. More

Friedman Kaplan recently obtained the dismissal with prejudice of a lawsuit that was initially filed by plaintiff HK Capital LLC against now defunct Signature Bank in 2021 – a decisive victory on behalf of its client, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation as Receiver for Signature Bank (“FDIC-R”). More

Friedman Kaplan filed an amicus brief on behalf of a group of institutional investors representing more than $2 trillion in assets under management in support of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s recently adopted climate disclosure rules for public issuers. More