Harlan Fiske Stone ScholarJames Kent Scholar
Editor, Columbia Law Review, 1978-1979
New York City Bar
New York State Bar Association
Securities Industry and Financial Market Association
New York Super Lawyers 2010
Chambers USA: General Commercial Litigation
Harry Frischer has experience in a wide variety of complex commercial litigations and arbitrations involving securities, antitrust, accounting and finance, corporate control, intellectual property, contracts and partnerships. A substantial portion of Harry’s practice involves the representation of financial institutions in connection with litigation, regulatory investigations and enforcement proceedings and arbitrations. He has tried cases in the federal and state courts, and has conducted arbitrations before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange and the American Arbitration Association. Harry also has argued appeals successfully in the Second Circuit and other appellate courts.
Harry handles shareholder class actions and related litigations under the securities laws, and has defended public corporations, officers and directors, and outside professionals in cases involving securities or accounting fraud. He often represents targets and witnesses in connection with SEC investigations.
A considerable portion of Harry’s practice consists of the prosecution and defense of antitrust claims. He also has significant experience in connection with the protection of trade secrets and enforcing employee covenants not to compete.
Harry frequently writes and speaks on securities and accounting matters and has presented Continuing Legal Education Programs to other attorneys on the legal and regulatory issues arising from the valuation of hard-to-value securities, and the legal and regulatory issues affecting prime brokers. His publications include “Supreme Court Holds That the Federal Securities Laws Implicitly Preclude Application of the Antitrust Laws Underwriting of Initial Public Offerings,” Journal of Investment Compliance, Vol. 8, No. 4 (2007), pp. 35-38; “Investigating Allegations of Corporate Accounting Fraud,” National Law Journal, November 10, 2003; “Managing Accounting Fraud Litigation” (PLI 2002); and “The Law of Contribution and Indemnity, and Protection Against Contribution and Indemnification Claims,” published in Settlement Agreements in Commercial Disputes, Ed. Rosen, Aspen Law and Business (with Emily Stern) (2000). For many years, Harry has lectured on accounting fraud at the Practising Law Institute.
Active in public affairs, Harry is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc., a not-for-profit organization that provides pro bono services in connection with foster care cases pending in New York City Family Court.