Tel: +1 212-806-5400
Practice Areas: • Corporate and Private Funds • Financial Restructuring • Financial Services Litigation, Regulation and Enforcement • General Litigation and Government Affairs • Insurance and Reinsurance • Intellectual Property / Media and Entertainment • Regulatory, Tax and Private Client Services
Office Locations: Los Angeles, CA Miami, FL Washington, D.C.
For more than 140 years, Stroock has been firmly committed to helping our clients achieve their strategic business goals. Stroock partners with our clients to deliver exceptional advice and achieve outcomes that support their objectives. We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace is essential to providing the highest quality legal services and maximizing opportunities for personal and professional development. We provide strategic transactional, regulatory and litigation advice to advance the business objectives of leading financial institutions, multinational corporations, entrepreneurial businesses and non-profit ventures in the U.S. and globally.
Litigation Overview:
Our litigators, nationally recognized by Chambers USA, The Legal 500 and Benchmark Litigation, represent clients in a range of complex disputes, appearing in federal and state trial courts, appellate courts and before public agencies and arbitration tribunals throughout the country.
We are focused on finding cost-effective solutions, including engaging in pre-litigation dispute resolution, and providing ongoing counsel on minimizing transaction litigation risk and the evolving regulatory environment. Our litigation team also advocates for vulnerable groups and civic, charitable and nonprofit entities, as well as indigent persons; in courts and administrative proceedings through our award-winning pro bono program.
We counsel clients in the following areas:
- Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and ERISA
- Employment and Labor
- Financial Restructuring
- Financial Services Litigation, Regulation and Enforcement
- Insurance and Reinsurance
- Intellectual Property
- Real Estate and Land Use
- Securities and Commodities
- White Collar Criminal Defense
Representative Clients:
- AIG
- American Express
- Arch Insurance Company
- Avaya
- BD Hotels
- Beverly Hills Unified School District
- Citibank
- Families of American Victims of Terrorist Attacks
- Goldman Sachs
- Grant Thornton International
- iPayment
- JP Morgan Chase & Co.
- Mckinsey & Company
- New York City Municipal Labor Committee
- ProSight Specialty Investment
- Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY)
- Transmar Commodity Group Ltd.
- The Orchard
- The Travelers
- Ultimate Software
- Uniformed Sanitationmen’s Association
- United Federation of Teachers
Last updated September 2019
Dispute Resolution
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan is a multidisciplinary firm known for providing legal services to some of the nation’s leading corporations, investment funds, entrepreneurs, and financial institutions. The firm's litigation team is compiled of some of the most skilled trial lawyers in their profession.
Kristopher Hansen chairs the nationwide financial and restructuring group where he specializes in deal-making and bankruptcy and appellate disputes. Hansen is lead counsel to the largest non-insider lender under a second lien credit facility extended to Sears Roebuck Acceptance Corp. and Kmart Corporation in connection with the chapter 11 cases of Sears Holdings Corporation and its affiliated debtors and in connection with their credit-default swap purchases.
Alan Klinger, a noted labor and employment litigation expert and co-chair of the litigation group, lead outside counsel to the Municipal Labor Committee and its constituents in ongoing negotiations for a new multiyear healthcare savings agreement. One client commends the labor practice group, testifying, “The Stroock team is the best for all aspects of public sector labor relations in NYC. They have extensive experience, depth of client knowledge, [and are] very responsive. They provide creative and smart solutions to all manner of disputes and negotiation situations. They always see the bigger picture of client needs and inform their work on any specific matter.” The client continues to praise the “depth of knowledge of substance, players and client needs” and adds, “They win. They play a major role in achieving our goals.” Another client notes Klinger for taking “the time to get to know our union and our members and always [approaching] matters with that knowledge in mind.”
California
Benchmark Rankings
Entertainment
Labor and Employment - New York
Labor and Employment
| Highly Recommended |
|---|
| Morgan Lewis & Bockius |
| Outten & Golden |
| Proskauer (Labor & Employment) |
| Sanford Heisler Sharp |
| Weil Gotshal & Manges |
New York
Benchmark Rankings
United States
Bankruptcy
| Tier 2 |
|---|
| Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld |
| Brown Rudnick |
| Davis Polk & Wardwell |
| Kasowitz Benson Torres |
| Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel |
| Simpson Thacher & Bartlett |
| Stroock & Stroock & Lavan |
| WilmerHale |
General Commercial
| Attorney | Ranking | Practice Area |
|---|---|---|
| Bernard, James | National Practice Area Star, Local Litigation Star | General Commercial, Securities |
| Besvinick, Laura | Local Litigation Star | Insurance |
| Fliman, Daniel | Future Star | |
| Goldstein, Jayme | Future Star | |
| Hansen, Kristopher | National Practice Area Star, Local Litigation Star | Bankruptcy |
| Klinger, Alan | Labor & Employment Star, Local Litigation Star | General Commercial, Labor and Employment |
| Kolker, Dina | Future Star | |
| Pasquale, Kenneth | Local Litigation Star | Bankruptcy |
| Rao, Arjun | 40 & Under Hot List 2019 | Banking and financial services, Commercial and Transactions, Government and regulatory |
| Recine, Jennifer S. | 2019 Top 250 Women in Litigation, Local Litigation Star | General Commercial |
| Strickland, Julia | Local Litigation Star, National Practice Area Star | General Commercial |
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