Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell & Peskoe LLP

Education and Honors

• J. D. Columbia Law School (1977), Kent Scholar, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, Writing and Research Editor, Columbia Law Review
• B. A., with highest honors, Rutgers College (1973), member, Phi Beta Kappa

Prior Legal Experience

• Kramer Levin
• United States Department of Justice, Honors Program, Antitrust Division

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Speaker/Author

David J. Eiseman

Mr. Eiseman, one of the founders of the firm, is a commercial litigator with thirty years of experience advising clients and handling all aspects of disputes, from pre-litigation strategy to trial and appeal. Mr. Eiseman's litigation career began immediately after law school, at the Department of Justice, where he worked on both civil and criminal antitrust matters. Since entering into private practice, he has expanded the areas of his practice into a wide range of commercial matters. Shortly after leaving the Department of Justice, in the early 1980's, Mr. Eiseman tried his first jury case (which, after two weeks of trial, settled while the jury was deliberating). Since then, he has successfully tried numerous cases through to verdict and argued many appeals, both in Federal and State courts, and in New York as well as in other states.

Mr. Eiseman's practice focuses on complex business and financial disputes. The types of claims he litigates run the gamut and include securities fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, antitrust, patent infringement, insurance and reinsurance-related claims, defamation and breach of contract. Current or recently concluded cases include complex multi-party international business disputes; partnership disputes; the defense of officers, directors and employees in securities and ERISA class actions; and representation of receivers and bankruptcy trustees in lawsuits seeking the recovery of assets on behalf of defrauded victims.

Representative cases handled by Mr. Eiseman include:

• Represented receiver for a company used to perpetrate a Ponzi scheme on investors and successfully prosecuted claim against Deutsche Bank to invalidate its security interest on securities deposited in the name of the company, resulting in recovery of more than $20 million for the estate and defrauded investors. (Second Circuit, 386 F.3d 438; District Court, 279 F.Supp. 2d 247). 
• Represented individual and corporate client in multi-party, multi-jurisdictional dispute arising out of the development of mobile telecommunications networks in Russia, obtaining outright dismissal of claims brought by Cypriot company, and the successful settlement of multiple lawsuits by other parties in State court, Federal Court and the courts of Cyprus. (New York Appellate Division, 41 A.D.3d 348, 839 N.Y.S.2d 726).
• Obtained multi-million dollar judgment on behalf of investors in art fund against the fund and the individual who ran the fund. (S.D.N.Y. 2007).
• Obtained defense verdict following a two-week jury trial for U.S. subsidiary of Turkish manufacturer of copper wire products accused of stealing trade secrets (S.D.N.Y. 2005). 
• Ongoing representation of seven current or former employees of Monster Worldwide, Inc. in three putative class actions involving claims of options backdating.
• Ongoing representation of Chapter 11 Trustee in litigations arising out of misappropriation of more than $100 million from entities serving as qualified intermediaries in like-kind exchanges of investment property. 
• Represented high-level officer in connection with his resignation from investment banking firm and commencement of employment at another firm, including successful mediation of disputes arising from claims of breach of non-solicitation and confidentiality provisions of employment agreement.