Jason Rubinstein

Jason Rubinstein represents public and private companies, investment funds and investors, and high-level executives as plaintiffs and defendants in business and financial disputes, and particularly excels in handling matters of exceptional complexity. He has a broad-based practice in the federal and state courts, as well as before various arbitral tribunals. His areas of focus include complex contractual disputes, business torts, bankruptcy litigation, securities fraud, business divorces, employment litigation and arbitration, and defense of law firms in legal malpractice cases. He also advises clients, including corporate boards and special committees, in connection with internal investigations and derivative lawsuits.

Jason is a member of Friedman Kaplan's Management Committee and serves as the firm’s General Counsel.

Jason’s notable experience includes:

• Representation of the largest creditor of PG&E in successfully prosecuting multi-billion dollar insurance subrogation claims, for injuries arising out of the 2017 and 2018 North Bay wildfires in California, in one of most complex bankruptcy cases in U.S. history;

• Obtained the dismissal, following a motion to dismiss and a motion for partial summary judgment, of a lawsuit asserting tortious interference and breach of contract claims brought by the former majority shareholder of a major international refiner, recycler, and manufacturer of metal products alleging that our client, the company’s second largest shareholder, caused the failure of the majority shareholder’s negotiations to restructure approximately €1.6 billion in indebtedness. The Appellate Division, First Department, affirmed the lawsuit’s dismissal;

• Representation of an affiliate of the former owner of the iconic Shore Club Hotel in Miami’s South Beach in litigation asserting breach of contract and business tort claims following a series of clandestine transactions that divested our client of its rights in the Shore Club;

• On behalf of Japan’s largest airline, secured the complete dismissal of claims asserted by a former parts manufacturer alleging fraud and improper termination of a contract in a complex, cross-border litigation in New York Supreme Court. Our client was also awarded its attorneys’ fees and costs following an eight-day hearing. Both the dismissal and fee award were affirmed on appeal;

• Defense of the former Chief Financial Officer of a liquidated sports equipment manufacturer in a putative class action asserting ’34 Act claims arising out of the company’s alleged failure to disclose that it engaged in sales practices that impaired future earnings and forced it into bankruptcy.