Jeffrey A. Rosenthal is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Rosenthal’s practice focuses on general commercial and international arbitration and litigation, as well as sports law. Mr. Rosenthal has represented numerous foreign and domestic entities before a wide variety of judicial and arbitral bodies, including the International Chamber of Commerce, the London Court of International Arbitration, the American Arbitration Association, the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, UNCITRAL, the Society of Maritime Arbitrators, and a number of federal and state courts. He has tried or arbitrated cases through merits hearings concerning international joint venture disputes, intellectual property, sports contract disputes, maritime issues, bankruptcy, breaches of contract, insurance law, bilateral investment treaty disputes and tort law, among others. Mr. Rosenthal also routinely advises several leading financial institutions with regard to actual or potential litigation issues concerning complex financial products including derivative transactions under ISDA master agreements, repurchase agreements and subprime-related matters.

Mr. Rosenthal joined the firm in 1992 and became a partner in 2001. Mr. Rosenthal is widely published on a variety of topics (including issues concerning antitrust, labor, disability and contract law) and taught sports law at New York Law School and Rutgers Law School from 1996-2003.

Mr. Rosenthal is a member of the Bars of New York and New Jersey and is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the District of New Jersey, and the U.S. Circuit Courts for the Second and Sixth Circuits. He was the Chair of the 1,500-member Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Section of the New York State Bar Association from 2002-2004 and served on the Board of Directors of The Fund for Modern Courts, an organization dedicated to improving the administration of justice in New York State. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, New York International Arbitration Center.

Mr. Rosenthal received a J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1992, and an undergraduate degree, cum laude, from Dartmouth College in 1989.