Henry Brownstein

Select examples of Henry's prior firm experience include:

• Represented Pilgrim’s Pride in defense of a putative antitrust class action in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Oklahoma, in which plaintiffs allege that a group of chicken companies engaged in anticompetitive conduct that enabled them to pay growers of broiler chickens less than the competitive level.
• Represented SL Green Realty, New York City’s largest owner of office real estate, in winning a $185 million arbitration award against HNA Group (International) Company Limited, part of Chinese conglomerate HNA Group, relating to SL Green’s $148 million equity investment in 245 Park Avenue, a marquee office tower in New York City.  Henry secured a precedent-setting victory in the Second Circuit.
• Represented Noteholders in multi-billion dollar National Collegiate Student Loan Trusts (“NCSLTs”) in nationwide litigations concerning the administration and control of the Trusts.   Henry was part of a team that achieved a series of precedent-setting wins.
• Represented The Federal Housing Finance Agency (“FHFA”), as conservator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, in actions in federal court against financial institutions arising out of misrepresentations concerning residential mortgage-backed securities sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
• Represented UniCredit, a leading European bank, in defending class and individual actions in multiple jurisdictions throughout the country in connection with tax shelter transactions.
• Represented a lender in a dispute with The Royal Bank of Scotland relating to Liverpool Football Club, which was sold to a group led by the owner of the Boston Red Sox.
• Represented a national developer obtaining summary judgment against The Sapir Organization, a New York real estate firm, relating to its failure to close a $20 million transaction to purchase property in Las Vegas.
• Represented an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group in a lawsuit, filed in New York federal court, against an affiliate of AIG, seeking to enforce an agreement pursuant to which Fortress had agreed to purchase in excess of $100 million of real estate investments from the AIG affiliate.  The case settled after a successful motion to dismiss. 
• Represented Comcast Corporation in three antitrust class actions brought by a putative class of two million subscribers in each case.  These were test cases for the entire cable industry.