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Jordan Goldstein

Jordan Goldstein

Selendy Gay PLLC, United States

Position

Partner and General Counsel

Career

Jordan Goldstein is a veteran litigator who specializes in complex financial products and commercial transactions.

Jordan holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and previously worked as a deal attorney, where he structured many of the same types of transactions he now litigates. Jordan is also a former federal prosecutor and served in senior roles in the U.S. Department of Justice, including in the Office of Legal Counsel and as special counsel to the assistant attorney general of the National Security Division.

Admitted to practice in both New York and Florida, Jordan has a strong focus on litigating investor and consumer claims. He has represented clients adverse to virtually every major investment bank regarding a range of financial products, including mortgage-backed securities, collateralized debt obligations, auction-rate securities, credit default swaps, municipal bonds, and insurance policies on financial instruments. He has litigated and appeared in numerous proceedings on behalf of bondholders in which bond payout provisions are in dispute, has litigated hostile takeovers, has been appointed class action counsel in major antitrust litigation, and has defended borrowers in commercial lending transactions. Jordan has helped his clients recover over $25 billion.

Jordan is recognized as a Litigation Star by Benchmark Litigation and is listed as a recommended lawyer by Legal 500 in their Securities Litigation: Plaintiff rankings.

Education

Harvard Law School, J.D., 2002, Magna cum laude Harvard Business School, M.B.A., 2002, Second Year Honors University of Oxford, St. Cross College, Graduate study in Shakespeare, 1997, Merit scholarship Georgetown University, B.A., English Literature and Government, 1996, Summa cum laude, First in class

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