Andrew J. Rossman focuses on complex commercial litigation, including class and derivative actions, bankruptcy-related litigation and multidistrict litigation. Mr. Rossman has extensive experience defending private securities and other shareholder lawsuits and SEC enforcement proceedings. He regularly represents hedge funds, private equity firms, public companies and their officers and directors, special committees of boards, creditors' committees and individuals in state, federal and bankruptcy courts throughout the country.
Mr. Rossman frequently serves as lead litigation counsel in complex and high-profile bankruptcy cases. He was lead trial counsel for the largest customer of Refco, Inc. and served as lead trial counsel for the Official Creditors' Committee of Loral Space and Communications in its contested confirmation hearing. He currently leads the firm’s engagement as special litigation counsel to a debtor manufacturer in its asbestos estimation proceedings, and serves as litigation counsel to the Official Creditors’ Committee of Solutia, Inc.
Mr. Rossman has broad experience in representing clients in domestic and international arbitrations and related court proceedings. Currently, he represents a major Russian oil company in a putative securities fraud class arbitration commenced by a prestigious university under AAA class arbitration and international rules and involving the application of Russian law.
Mr. Rossman is counsel of record for the Manhattan Democratic Party in Lopez Torres v. New York State Board of Elections, a case concerning the constitutionality of New York's convention system for electing state Supreme Court justices, which was profiled in the New York Law Journal as one of the Top Cases of 2004 and will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court this term.
Mr. Rossman received his A.B. cum laude from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1989 and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1992. He is the author of "Decisions Highlight Extraterratorial Reach of New York Courts," The New York Law Journal (September 11, 2006) and "Scienter and Summary Judgment," The New York Law Journal (December 19, 2005), and the co-author of "Recent Lawsuits Against Mutual Funds, Investment Advisors and Related Parties Allege Failure to File Proofs of Claims in Securities Class Action Settlements," The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel (March 2005); "Increased Risk of Personal Liability for Outside Directors," Directors Monthly (July 2004); "Circuits Divide on the New Pleading Standard for Scienter Under the Securities Reform Act," Andrews Corporate Officers & Directors Liability Litigation Reporter (July 26, 1999); and "Choosing Lead Plaintiffs Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act: Who Shall Lead?" Securities Regulation Law Journal (Summer 1999).
Mr. Rossman is a member of the New York Bar and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 2nd and 6th Circuits, and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. He serves on the Litigation Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
Written Works