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 litigation associate Danielle Tepper has been appointed co-chair of the New York County Lawyers Association’s Committee on Women in the Law. More

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

The Hedge Fund Law Report has published an article by Friedman Kaplan litigation partner Anne Beaumont discussing requirements of and protections for investment managers from advice-of-counsel defense provisions.  More

What’s happening right now in the world of LIBOR transition?  Friedman Kaplan’s LIBOR Transition Task Force sees five major themes More

Law360 has published an "Expert Analysis" article co-authored by Friedman Kaplan litigation partner Anne Beaumont and Janine Alexander and Audrey Favreau of UK law firm Collyer Bristow LLP.  The article provides a comparative analysis of legislative and regulatory proposals in three jurisdictions – the US, UK and EU – which attempt to address so-called “tough legacy” contracts, which have no or inadequate LIBOR fallback provisions, and are extremely difficult or impossible to amend in advance of the end of LIBOR in 2021.  More

Friedman Kaplan attorneys Asaf Reindel, Stan Chiueh, and Jessica Julich share findings from a review of the LIBOR fallback and other provisions in 300 recent loan and credit agreements, which were extracted using Eigen Technologies’ natural language processing platform. More