Jon Friedman represents clients in a broad range of high-stakes commercial litigation and investigations. Across his 20-year career, he has repeatedly secured dismissals and other winning outcomes in eight-, nine-, and ten-figure disputes, many involving complex claims related to securities. In addition to his extensive civil litigation work, Jon defends clients in connection with investigations and enforcement proceedings initiated by the Securities and Exchange Commission and self-regulatory organizations including FINRA. He also conducts internal investigations and represents clients in federal and state investigations relating to consumer protection and other issues.

Before joining Glenn Agre Bergman & Fuentes, Jon was a partner at Foley & Lardner LLP.

Jon has represented:

  • KPMG LLP in obtaining the dismissal of claims seeking over $1.1 billion based on allegedly insufficient audit work, along with an affirmance from the Delaware Supreme Court.
  • Merrill Lynch in obtaining the dismissal of two lawsuits seeking over $300 million for alleged losses in the purchase of auction rate securities, along with an affirmance from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
  • An indenture trustee for over $1.4 billion in senior and subordinated notes in successfully challenging a corporate restructuring that had diverted assets securing those notes.
  • A real estate company in litigation with its former managers and obtaining the dismissal of claims seeking over $80 million in damages in connection with a disputed incentive agreement.
  • Audit firms and their partners, officers, and directors of public companies, securities broker-dealers and their employees and law firms and their partners in enforcement proceedings before the SEC and SROs.
  • The Innocence Project, pro bono, in filing an amicus curiae brief with the Third Department Appellate Division that helped secure the freedom of a woman who had pleaded guilty based on scientific evidence that was later recognized as fraudulent.

CREDENTIALS

  • New York University, J.D., 2005
    • Notes Editor, New York University Law Review
  • Dartmouth College, B.A., 2002

ADMISSIONS

  • State Bar of New York
  • 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
  • Second Circuit Court of Appeals