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Jerome C. Katz
Partner
Ropes & Gray
1211 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036-8704
T + 1-212-596-9054
F + 1-646-728-1846
+ 1-212-497-3634 secretary
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Practice
Jerome Katz has more than 30 years of experience in complex commercial litigation, arbitration and mediation in the United States and abroad. He has appeared before state and federal courts and administrative agencies throughout the United States in a wide variety of cases, including contract, securities, libel, product liability, fraud, pension and reinsurance matters, and in cases often involving cross-border issues.
Professional Experience
Jerry’s matters have included the representation of a leading satellite operator in contract disputes in the U.S., India and elsewhere; an investment bank in a dispute with the IRS and others concerning the availability of tax credits for synthetic fuel plants; another investment bank and a commercial bank in a dispute involving almost a billion dollars in letters of credit; a consumer products company in a jury trial in New York state court concerning a supplemental executive retirement plan; a U.S. insurance company in a dispute with a reinsurance broker over the adequacy of disclosures made to a prospective Italian reinsurer; a large British manufacturing company in the defense of product liability litigation in the U.K. and Ireland; a Mideast bank that wanted to unfreeze assets in the U.S. after the normalization of relations between Libya and the U.S.; two prominent British businessmen in the defense of a suit alleging a real estate fraud in New York; a South African hotel and casino operator in a dispute concerning competitive restraints outside of Africa; a private equity firm in the defense of an indemnification suit arising from the sale of a portfolio company; a life sciences company in the defense of a suit alleging the misappropriation of human DNA; and two separate clients in the prosecution of libel suits arising from defamatory statements on the Internet. He was recently the lead trial counsel for the plaintiff insurance company in a nine-week jury trial in federal court in Philadelphia, in which his client obtained a multi-million-dollar verdict.
Honors & Awards
- Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2008-2009)
- The Best Lawyers in America (2006-2010)
- New York Super Lawyers (2006-2009) (including “Top 100,” 2008)
- The Legal 500 US (2007)
- Lawdragon 3000: "Leading Lawyers in America" (2006-2007)
- Who's Who in the World (2006-2008)
- Who's Who in America (1994-2008)
- Who's Who in American Law (1992-2008)
Professional & Civic Activities
- Court-appointed neutral mediator for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (2001-present)
Memberships & Affiliations
- The Legal Aid Society, Board of Directors (2002-2008); Board of Advisers (2008-present)
- Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Board of Trustees (2005-present)
- Citizens Budget Commission, Board of Trustees (2003-2008)
- American Bar Association
- Association of the Bar of the City of New York
Bar Admissions
Courts
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit
- Supreme Court of the United States
Education
- 1975,
J.D., Columbia Law School; Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar; Associate Editor, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law
- 1972,
A.B., magna cum laude, Duke University; Phi Beta Kappa
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