Notable Clients and Cases
- While well known for representing professional sporting organizations such as the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League, Major League Baseball, and the National Football League, Proskauer also represents such clients as BP America, ChevronTexaco, Exxon Mobil, Metlife, National Maritime Union Trust Funds, Strachan Shipping, RCN Corporation, and United Parcel Service. Notable New York City clients include Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, the New York City Ballet, and the New York City Opera.
- Proskauer Rose represented Silverstein Properties, owner of the World Trade Center towers in New York that were destroyed by the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, in a dispute with its insurers.
- The firm has represented BDO Seidman, Deloitte & Touche, and Ernst & Young before the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- Proskauer represented Major League Soccer in the deal to bring David Beckham to the Los Angeles Galaxy.
- The firm represented the League of American Theatres and Producers during the stagehands strike in the fall of 2007.
- The firm won a significant copyright case in 2006 when they represented the rock band The White Stripes against a former producer regarding the ownership rights in the band's first two albums.
- Proskauer represented the NBA against the Oscar Robertson antitrust suit, which established free agency in basketball (the lead litigator, David Stern, lost the case, but the league hired him as its in-house counsel in 1978 and later promoted him to NBA commissioner).
- The firm's New York offices served as the negotiation site surrounding the six-month 1998 lockout of the NBA players.
- Proskauer represented Robert Wood Johnson IV when he purchased the New York Jets for $635 million in 2000.
- The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) hired Proskauer in 2009 to conduct an investigation into its operations and write a report regarding the undercover video controversy.
- The Recording Academy (the Grammy® Award organization) in its strategic transaction with the Beijing Music Festival- represented by the head of Hong Kong office, Yuval Tal
- Major League Baseball in connection with the $2.15 billion bankruptcy of the Los Angeles Dodgers
- Accor on the sale of the Motel 6 chain to Blackstone Group for $1.9 billion
- The New York Times in its contract negotiations with the Newspaper Guild of New York
- Leucadia board of directors in its $2.8 billion purchase of Jefferies Group
- Jimmy Haslam in connection with his $1 billion purchase of the National Football League's Cleveland Browns
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