Jay Pomerantz
Jay is a trusted advisor and interdisciplinary team leader who helps companies, founders, directors, officers, and venture investors navigate their most pivotal transactional matters and sensitive legal challenges. Jay combines exceptional pattern-recognition and utilizes the firm’s breadth of expertise to see around corners for clients and helps build agile, specialized teams designed to ensure successful outcomes.
With a Swiss Army knife approach, Jay’s experience spans a broad range of disciplines, allowing him to advise on private company disputes and litigations of all shapes and sizes; corporate transactions; corporate governance and control issues; merger transactions and merger-related disputes; securities-related disputes and litigations; trade secret and copyright matters; internal investigations and regulatory matters; and issues related to advancement, indemnification, and corporate insurance. In an industry where specialization is the norm, Jay takes a multi-disciplinary approach to all his engagements. This approach enables him to assess not just legal but also business risks and opportunities; recognize patterns that, once identified, facilitate effective decision-making; and help clients fashion creative solutions in mission-critical situations.
It’s hard to overstate just how much we appreciate and respect Jay. Through his hard work and dedication, he has made monumental contributions to WELL Health. We couldn’t imagine turning to anyone else as skilled and trusted as Jay and consider him to be our most trusted professional advisor.”
- Represented a co-founder as plaintiff in breach of fiduciary duty and retaliatory discharge litigation against a startup company.
- Conducted numerous internal investigations for public companies following whistleblower allegations related to improper sales practices, accounting improprieties, expense account abuses, violations of anti-bribery statutes, and violations of the False Claims Act.
- Represented an insurance technology company as plaintiff in trade secret and breach of fiduciary duty litigation brought against a company founded by a former director.
- Represented numerous venture firms, founders, and investors in connection with corporate governance and control disputes.
- Represented several audit committees conducting internal investigations on a wide range of financial and accounting issues.
- Provided strategic advice to several corporate clients engaged in merger transactions.
- Represented HeadSpin, Inc. in internal and SEC investigations relating to allegations of accounting impropriety, resulting in settled charges with no penalty due to significant remedial efforts and cooperation.
- Successfully defended various Tencent entities in multiple lawsuits alleging conspiracy and other claims, resulting in the granting of motions to dismiss or voluntary dismissal of the actions by plaintiff.
- Represented scores of corporation clients on issues related to advancement, indemnification and corporate insurance.
- Represented the special committees of several private companies in connection with allegations that misrepresentations were made to venture investors regarding the company’s performance and financial statements.
- Obtained a dismissal of all claims by a disgruntled co-founder against medical device company and other co-founders on summary judgment.
- Successfully arbitrated breach of contract matter for insurance technology company, resulting in summary judgment, with an award of damages, interest, and attorneys’ fees.
- Obtained a $1 million award of attorneys’ fees against a plaintiff who improperly sued corporate clients in violation of a settlement agreement.
- Successfully defended various Tencent entities in litigation asserting claims for fraud, conversion, and violation of state consumer protection laws, resulting in granting of motion to dismiss.
- Obtained dismissal on a motion to dismiss for individual client named as a defendant in securities class action related to alleged cyber vulnerabilities.
- Represented healthcare technology company in litigations and arbitrations relating to the use of pixel technology on its website.
- Successfully defended federal securities class action against Baozun, Inc. and its officers, resulting in the voluntary dismissal of the action by plaintiff.