Jay Kasner represents a diverse group of U.S. and international public and private companies and their directors and officers in their most crucial litigation matters. He has advised or is currently advising numerous public and private companies of various sizes around the world, including, among others:
- Amgen Inc.
- Anadarko Petroleum
- BMW AG
- Coinbase Inc.
- Chair of the board of DocuSign, Inc.
- Equitable Financial
- FedEx Corporation
- Hawaiian Electric Industries
- LVMH
- News Corporation
- Nokia Corporation
- Pfizer Inc.
- Officers and directors of Republic Airways
- Six Flags Entertainment Corporation
- Sprint Nextel Corporation
- Unilever
Lawdragon Honors
Over the course of his career, he also has advised financial services clients worldwide in class action and other litigation, including, among others:
- Banco Itaú S.A.
- Bank of America Merrill Lynch
- Barclays plc
- BNP Paribas
- Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
- Citigroup Inc.
- Deutsche Bank AG
- Fidelity Investments
- Goldman Sachs & Co.
- HSBC
- J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
- Morgan Stanley
- New York Community Bank
- Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America
- The Royal Bank of Scotland plc
- Société Générale S.A.
- UBS
His victories before the U.S. Supreme Court and various appellate courts throughout the United States include representing, among others:
- Merrill Lynch in Merrill Lynch v. Dabit, in which he secured a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision in the first case in which the Court addressed the provisions of the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998
- Merrill Lynch in Lentell v. Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. — one of Law360’s Securities Cases of the Decade — in which the Second Circuit adopted a standard for pleading loss causation that has been cited hundreds of times
- Vivint Solar, Inc., several of its officers and directors, and The Blackstone Group in securing a significant Second Circuit decision in a case of first impression that created a circuit split on the standard for determining the disclosure of interim financial data in a prospectus
Kasner also has represented numerous Europe-based, U.S.-listed companies and their individual officers and directors in securities litigation. These include Autoliv Inc., the former CEO of Porsche Automobil Holding SE, BMW AG, LVMH, Nokia Corporation, RSA Insurance Group plc, SCOR SE, Seadrill Ltd., Stena AB and Unilever Plc, among others.
Additionally, he advises Latin American clients, including companies and individuals such as Banco Itaú International, Cimento Tupi S.A., Netshoes (Cayman) Limited, Quiñenco S.A. and Tech Pack S.A., in the defense of a wide range of litigation and regulatory issues, including securities and complex commercial claims.
