Mr. Jaffe’s practice focuses on the litigation of complex corporate and commercial disputes; shareholder, securities, and derivative litigation; and corporate control and M&A litigation. Mr. Jaffe represents corporate and individual clients in many industry sectors at the trial and appellate levels in federal and state courts, as well as in arbitration and other ADR forums, and has particular expertise in representing hedge funds, private equity funds (and their portfolio companies), venture capital funds, investment advisory firms, and broker dealers. He also has extensive experience in white-collar criminal and enforcement proceedings (including investigations undertaken by the DOJ, SEC, NASD, and various other regulators), and internal investigations on behalf of corporations, boards of directors, and audit/special committees.
Mr. Jaffe is a graduate of New York University School of Law. Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Jaffe practiced law for ten years as a litigator at Fried, Frank, Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP. He subsequently served as a Vice President at Ramius LLC, a multi-strategy hedge fund manager, where he was responsible for negotiating and structuring PIPE financing transactions and participated in the management of the fund’s investment portfolio.
