J.D. from Columbia Law School

B.A. in English and History from University of Michigan

Law Clerk to the Honorable Richard Owen
U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York

Court of Appeals Holds that Arbitration Agreements Can be Formed through ‘Clickwrap’ Process, New York Law Journal (Dec. 9, 2024)

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz, LLP

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Member of State Bars of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut

Admitted in the Southern and Eastern District of New York, District of New Jersey, District of Connecticut, Central District of Illinois, and in the Second, Third, and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

Jeremy was lead counsel on the BHB team that obtained dismissal with an award of attorneys’ fees for  a global commercial real estate company and three of its senior brokers in a defamation and business tort action in the Commercial Division of New York Supreme Court in Manhattan. Our clients were engaged by the New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services to provide brokerage services on City leasing matters and subcontracted with the plaintiff to provide related services pursuant to the City’s Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprise Program. When our client notified the City by email that it was no longer assigning new matters to the plaintiff, the plaintiff sued alleging that our client’s email was defamatory. BHB brought a pre-answer motion to dismiss under New York’s Anti-SLAPP law, which safeguards public participants against claims based on public speech and petitioning. The Commercial Division granted our motion, holding that our clients’ speech was protected by the Constitution and New York’s Civil Rights law, and entering an award of attorneys’ fees in our clients’ favor.

Jeremy represented Charles Condominiums LLC, an affiliate of Bluerock Real Estate affiliate, in a dispute arising out of the development of a luxury Manhattan condominium tower. Our client retained  Victor RPM First, LLC as its Development Manager to oversee the condo’s construction.  When Victor sued for $10 million in additional development fees, Jeremy brought a separate action against Victor for breach of contract based on its deficient oversight of the construction. Jeremy then deployed an early and aggressive pre-discovery summary judgment strategy that resulted in partial summary judgment on Victor’s affirmative claims effectively reducing its claim to zero, while obtaining partial summary judgment as to Victor’s liability for breach of contract in Charles’s affirmative case.  The First Department affirmed both rulings,  clearing the way for a settlement that resulted in Victor paying Charles to resolve the matter.

Victor RPM First, LLC v. The Charles Condominiums, LLC (New York Supreme Court, Commercial Division 653265/2018); The Charles Condominiums, LLC v. Victor RPM First, LLC, et al, (New York Supreme Court, Commercial Division 657040/2019)  
Opposing counsel: L’Abbate, Balkan, Colavita & Contini, LLP 

Upon joining BHB, Jeremy served as co-lead counsel with Noah Hagey representing a major developer of Treasure Island, one of the most significant real estate projects in San Francisco Bay Area history, in a series of consolidated multi-million-dollar actions against Stockbridge Treasure Island Investment Company, LLC, WMS Treasure Island Development I, LLC and Stockbridge TI Co-Investors, LLC concerning the allocation of investment returns from the project. After several years of pitched litigation and on the eve of the deposition of Defendant’s principal in late summer 2025, BHB resolved all claims pursuant to a confidential eight-figure settlement that allowed for the redevelopment of iconic Treasure Island into a new mixed-use community. In a public statement, our client reflected its pride in having “created new opportunities, housing, and improved one of the San Francisco Bay’s most visible yet underutilized assets.”

Stockbridge Treasure Island Investment Co., LC v. Kenwood Investments, LLC, Case No. CGC-23-605537/Kenwood Investments, LLC v. Stockbridge Treasure Island Investment Co., LLC et al., Case No. CGC-23-605626 (S.F. Supp. Ct.)(consolidated); Kenwood Investments LLC v. Fancher et al., Case No. CGC-24-620087, (S.F. Supp. Ct.).
Opposing counsel: Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Williams & Connolly LLP

As co-lead counsel with Noah Hagey, Jeremy and the BHB team devised and executed a creative litigation and negotiation strategy for a high profile volatility arbitrage trader who brought claims against his former hedge fund seeking compensation, access to certain intellectual property developed by our client, and a declaration invalidating contractual restrictive covenants. Through a combination of litigation and negotiation, the BHB team quickly  achieved a favorable, pre-trial and pre-discovery resolution including a nearly nine-figure monetary settlement as well as delivery of the requested intellectual property and agreement limiting the scope of post-employment restrictive covenants.

Jeremy and BHB serve as outside counsel to Colliers International NY LLC, a commercial landlord affiliate Colliers International, in numerous matters involving breaches of commercial leases.  Most notably, in a closely-watched case during the COVID-19 pandemic, Jeremy obtained a precedent-setting judgment against a non-paying tenant in which the court rejected pandemic-based defenses including force majeure, impossibility of performance and frustration of purpose.  In this case, the tenant was Bold Food, LLC, the corporate parent of celebrity chef Bobby Flay’s restaurant.  By defeating Bobby Flay, Jeremy claims that he is now the new Top Chef.

1140 Broadway LLC v. Bold Food, LLC 652674/2020*

*Jeremy litigated this matter at a prior firm.

Our client, a high net worth investor, was solicited to buy shares of a private defense contractor by, Giovanni Pennetta of Sestante Capital, through the online private market, Forge, and purchased several million dollars’ worth of shares.  He soon came to suspect that Pennetta was a fraud and asked BHB to investigate.  We quickly determined that our client’s suspicions were correct but that the money was likely gone and would be difficult to recover even if we obtained a judgment.  We advised our client that instead of pursuing a civil judgment, he would better served to work with law enforcement, especially because Pennetta had recently contacted him to solicit a further investment.  We leveraged our strong contacts in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and set up a meeting with a team of prosecutors and FBI agents who were intrigued by the active solicitation and asked our client if he would wear a wire to his next meeting with Pennetta.  He agreed and the ensuing recording ended up as the key piece of evidence in the indictment against Pennetta, which soon led to a guilty plea.  The plea agreement included a multi-million dollar civil restitution order, from which our client stands to benefit if the Department of Justice is able to uncover any of Pennetta’s assets. 

Jeremy has represented numerous clients in trade secrets and restrictive covenant matters, including in the financial services, real estate, logistics, and medical device industries. He serves as litigation “consiglieri” to one of the nation’s largest wholesale grocery distributors, routinely advising on pre-litigation matters and often providing a “second-look” to evaluate claims, defenses, and strategies in ongoing matters. Jeremy also serves as counsel and advisor for an AI researcher, technologist, and entrepreneur known for developing advanced healthcare artificial intelligence.