Jeffrey M. Eilender Email & Phone Number

Jeffrey M. Eilender is the co-managing partner of the firm and co-chair of the civil litigation group. His commercial litigation practice focuses on internal governance, partnership, LLC, shareholder disputes and business separations, often when the future of the company or an owner’s net assets are at risk. Jeff has represented all of the players in a business divorce; the companies, majority owners, and dissenting or oppressed minority owners. He has also prosecuted and defended derivative actions. Many of his business divorce matters have resulted in groundbreaking court rulings that are often cited by other courts and are the subject of articles and blogs by other lawyers. The scope of Jeff’s practice extends beyond intra-corporate disputes. With nearly 30 years of litigation experience, Jeff helps clients resolve virtually any kind of business conflict. He litigates all manner of real estate, contract, intellectual property, trade secrets, employment, fraud, and other business tort cases. Jeff represents large public entities, family businesses, and high net-worth individuals and entertainment.A master of procedure, Jeff is noted for devising innovative solutions that other lawyers often don’t think of, which is why clients turn to Jeff for their most significant business matters.A partner at a prominent National law firm describes Jeff as, “a litigation powerhouse unto himself.”Jeff regularly serves as lead counsel in trials and hearings in federal court, the commercial divisions of New York’s state courts, arbitral forums, and other venues around the nation, including in the Delaware Chancery Court.

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  Managing Partner

  Schlam Stone & Dolan Llp

  Jul 1995 - Present - New York, New York, Us

  * Representing Libra Max, the daughter of artist Peter Max, and their family company ALP, Inc. in various litigations in the Supreme Court of the State of New York and Eastern District of Michigan. FOX5's Good Day New York interview with Libra Max NY Business Divorce Blog Coverage * Lead counsel for bluebird bio in successfully defending at trial its right to commercialize its billion-dollar gene therapy for thalassemia; * Representing global insurance giant AXA in a $200 million lawsuit against ING in the Commercial Division of New York County Supreme Court arising out of AXA’s purchase of a Mexican subsidiary of ING; * Lead counsel in trial and appeal which issued significant decision limiting use of marketability discount for real estate holding entities. Chiu v. Chiu., 125 A.D.3d 824 (2d Dep’t 2015). * Representing minority member in business divorce with Rallye Motors in Supreme Court Commercial Division; * Representing real estate developer Ben Ashkenazy and his company Ashkenazy Acquisition Corp. in various render liability cases; * Tried dissolution and partition case in New York Supreme Court involving $200 million family real estate business; * Obtaining a $13 million buyout for a minority LLC member in a dissolution proceeding in the Commercial Division of Nassau County Supreme Court; * Obtaining a rare order providing for an Anonymous v. Anonymous caption and complete sealing of court records to protect the identity of a television personality, then won summary judgment and an injunction enforcing a confidentiality agreement, preventing a former employee from publishing a “tell-all” memoir about the client. * Successfully defending publisher and author Judith Regan in a lawsuit brought against her by Dreier LLP, during which Mr. Eilender was the only attorney who obtained leave to depose Marc Dreier while he was under home confinement.