Paul D. Brachman

Recent significant representations include:

• News Corporation and certain subsidiaries in defense of multiple antitrust actions brought by competitors, including successfully defending News Corporation in a three-week jury trial in the Southern District of New York.
• Goldman Sachs in defense of a putative antitrust class action filed in the Southern District of New York alleging that defendant banks violated the antitrust laws by conspiring to inflate interest expenses paid by plaintiffs on municipal bonds.
• Playfly Sports in the dismissal of a six-count antitrust class action in the N.D. Cal. alleging that Playfly conspired to restrict compensation for high school student athletes in California.
• Loews Hotels Holding Corporation in the successful dismissal of two putative antitrust class action complaints alleging that leading hotel chains agreed to share competitively sensitive information and raise prices for luxury hotel rooms.
• Massage Envy Franchising, a nationwide franchisor of massage service businesses, in defense of tort suits filed in jurisdictions nationwide alleging vicarious liability, negligence, fraud and violations of state unfair practices laws.

Brachman also has an active pro bono practice. He represented business owners and neighborhood associations in Charlottesville, Virginia, in a 2018 lawsuit against participants in the violent “Unite the Right” rally, which was favorably resolved through settlement.

In law school, Brachman served as editor-in-chief of the NYU Journal of Legislation & Public Policy and was named “Best Oralist” in the 2011–12 Orison S. Marden Moot Court competition.