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John D. Singer - a Georgetown University Law Center graduate and former Proskauer Rose Attorney - is a Partner with, and Co Founder of, Singer Deutsch LLP. Mr. Singer, a Member of both the New York and California Bars, has been a Securities, Commodities, and Employment litigator throughout his entire legal career...
John D. Singer - a Georgetown University Law Center graduate and former Proskauer Rose Attorney - is a Partner with, and Co Founder of, Singer Deutsch LLP. Mr. Singer, a Member of both the New York and California Bars, has been a Securities, Commodities, and Employment litigator throughout his entire legal career...
John D. Singer - a Georgetown University Law Center graduate and former Proskauer Rose Attorney - is a Partner with, and Co Founder of, Singer Deutsch LLP. Mr. Singer, a Member of both the New York and California Bars, has been a Securities, Commodities, and Employment litigator throughout his entire legal career. Prior to co founding Singer Deutsch LLP, Mr. Singer worked for over 10 years at 2 large, pre-eminent law firms, in both New York (Proskauer Rose and Rosenman & Colin, now Katten Muchin Rosenman) and Los Angeles (Proskauer Rose), concentrating almost exclusively in Securities, Commodities, and Employment matters.
In connection with his nationwide employment law practice, Mr. Singer represents high-level individuals affiliated primarily with the Securities and Commodities industries, such as Wall Street traders, brokers, investment bankers, financial planners, wholesalers, compliance personnel, operations personnel, hedge fund executives, private equity fund executives, hedge fund marketers, and research analysts. Mr. Singer represents these individuals in both arbitrations and litigations against their former employers and in investigations or enforcement proceedings conducted by the Securities and Commodities regulators. With respect to Mr. Singer's nationwide representation of Securities and Commodities professionals against their former employers, the claims typically involve bonus disputes, wrongful terminations, U-5 defamation, failures to pay compensation (oftentimes involving stock options), whistle-blowing, discrimination, harassment, and slander. These actions are typically arbitrated at the NYSE or NASD; they are sometimes arbitrated and/or mediated at the AAA and JAMS as well. Mr. Singer's clients range in title from Associate to Senior Managing Director. Mr. Singer also represents NASD and NYSE member firms against other member firms in disputes emanating from unlawful solicitations, tortious interferences with business relations, and trading errors.
With respect to Mr. Singer's nationwide representation of Securities and Commodities professionals who are under investigation by the Securities and Commodities regulators, the issues range from market-timing, late-day trading, front-running and unauthorized, outside business activities to sales-practices issues (unsuitability and churning), forgery, and insider trading. Mr. Singer also negotiates multi-million dollar (and other) employment agreements and separation/severance agreements for his clients. Mr. Singer also represents high-profile individuals in the entertainment industry including, but not limited to, senior record label executives, models, actresses, and world renowned authors, as well as high-profile individuals in other industries, in connection with employment disputes with their former employers, contract negotiations, and commercial litigation disputes.
In connection with his nationwide representation of individual investors, Mr. Singer handles diverse, complex matters against investment banks, brokerage firms, hedge funds, financial planners, and investment advisors emanating from investment-related losses. These matters typically involve unsuitable investing, breaches of fiduciary duties, negligence, churning, material misrepresentations, unauthorized trading, material omissions, failures to supervise, blue-sky violations, and fraud. Mr. Singer represents these individual investors nationwide in NYSE, NASD, NFA, AAA, and JAMS Arbitrations.
Prior to his formation of Singer Deutsch LLP, Mr. Singer - during his 10 year tenure in New York and Los Angeles at Proskauer Rose and Rosenman & Colin (now Katten Muchin Rosenman) - was invariably on the defense side, wherein he garnered extensive experience representing brokerage industry clients in Securities, Commodities, and Employment litigations, arbitrations, and mediations at the NYSE, NASD, NFA, AAA, and CFTC, as well as in various State and Federal Courts. Mr. Singer also garnered considerable experience representing brokerage industry clients in enforcement and regulatory proceedings undertaken by the SEC, CFTC, NYSE, NASD, NFA, and various State Securities Commissions. Mr. Singer also represented brokerage industry clients (and others) in criminal proceedings and insider trading investigations involving various United States Attorneys' Offices, the Manhattan DA's Office, and the SEC.
At Proskauer Rose and Rosenman & Colin (now, Katten Muchin Rosenman), Mr. Singer represented a broad range of clients, including institutional and retail equity salesmen, investment bankers, research analysts, floor brokers, investment advisors, equity traders, market makers, broker dealers, short sellers, mutual funds, hedge funds and underwriters.
Mr. Singer is an NASD arbitrator, and a mediator for the New York Supreme Court, Commercial Division. Mr. Singer previously served as a mediator for the Los Angeles Superior Court. He is a Member of the Legal and Compliance Division of the Securities Industry Association, and he has written extensively on securities subjects for Registered Representative Magazine. Mr. Singer is a Member of the New York and California Bars, along with various federal courts.
On March 29, 2005, Mr. Singer served as a Panel Member on the National Association of Independent Broker Dealers Forum for Arbitration & Mediation.
In January 2006, Mr. Singer joined the Advisory Board of Team Continuum, Inc., an organization comprised of individuals who run marathons to raise money for cancer patients. Mr. Singer ran the ING New York City Marathon in 2005 and 2006, and he will be competing again with Team Continuum in the 2007 ING New York City Marathon.
Mr. Singer received his undergraduate degree from Tufts University, magna cum laude, in 1989, and his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1992.
About John D. Singer
Current Employment Position(s)
- Partner & Co-Founder
Languages
- Spanish
Practice Areas
- Securities and Commodities Arbitration
- Securities and Commodities Litigation
- Securities and Commodities Mediation
- Securities and Commodities Regulation
- Securities Class Actions
- Enforcement Proceedings
- NYSE Member Disputes
- Employment Disputes
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- New York, 1993
- California, 2002
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York, 1994
- U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 1994
Specialties and Certifications
- Arbitrator, NASD
- Mediator, New York Supreme Court, Commercial Division
Other Affiliations
- Securities Industry Association, Legal and Compliance Division (Member)
Past Positions
- Proskauer Rose LLP, New York Office, 2002
- Proskauer Rose LLP, New York Office, 1996 - 2000
- Proskauer Rose LLP, Los Angeles Office, 2001 - 2002
- Rosenman & Colin (Now Katten Muchin Rosenman), New York Office, 1992 - 1996
- Los Angeles Superior Court, Mediator
Education
- Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, District of Columbia, 1992
J.D.
Law Review: Law and Policy in International Business, Associate Editor, 1991 - 1992 - Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, 1989
B.A.
Honors: magna cum laude
Major: International Relations - London School of Economics Institute of Political and Economic Studies, 1988
Honors: Highest Honors
Articles
Published Works
- "A Self-Protection Program for Brokers", Registered Representative Magazine, May, 1999
- "Securities Lawyering: The Next Growth Industry", Registered Representative Magazine, July, 2002
Office Information
Address
555 Fifth Avenue17th Floor New York, NY 10017- 9254
Phone
Fax
- 212-682-2006
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- 2022 New York Metro Super Lawyers list
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- 2010 New York Metro Super Lawyers list
- 2009 New York Metro Super Lawyers list
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