Name John Singer | ||
John Singer (born July 21, 1967) is an American lawyer, known as a Wall Street Employment and Securities attorney. He has appeared frequently on CNBC, MSNBC, the Fox Business Network, NBC's Today Show, ABC's Good Morning America, CNN, PBS, Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg Television, and NPR as a legal analyst and commentator.
Singer's primary area of concentration is representing investment bankers, traders, portfolio managers, financial advisors, private bankers, and other senior securities/commodities professionals nationwide in FINRA Arbitrations against investment banks & broker-dealers in bonus, compensation, promissory note, discrimination, defamation, U-5, and sexual harassment actions. Singer also represents hedge fund and private equity professionals in areas running the gamut from negotiating separations/terms of employment to litigation emanating from contested departures. Singer also represents securities and commodities professionals nationwide in a full coterie of regulatory matters involving FINRA, the SEC, the CFTC, and various other regulatory bodies with respect to issues ranging from market-timing, late-day trading, front-running and unauthorized, outside business activities to sales-practices issues (unsuitability, unauthorized trading, fraud, and churning), forgery, expense fraud, and insider trading. In addition, Singer negotiates multimillion-dollar (and other) employment agreements and separation/severance agreements for his clients.
Singer also represents high-profile individuals in the entertainment industry including, but not limited to, senior record label executives, music managers, television producers, models, actors, actresses, television personalities, and world renowned authors, as well as high-profile individuals in other industries, in connection with employment disputes with their former employers, contract negotiations, and commercial litigation disputes.
Singer also represents individual investors nationwide in diverse, complex matters against investment banks, brokerage firms, hedge funds, financial planners, and investment advisors emanating from investment-related losses. These matters typically involve unsuitable investing, breaches of fiduciary duties, negligence, churning, material misrepresentations, unauthorized trading, material omissions, failures to supervise, blue-sky violations, and fraud. Singer represents these individual investors nationwide in FINRA, NFA, AAA, and JAMS Arbitrations.
Singer has been quoted in numerous news articles, and The Wall Street Journal published an interview with him in November 2008. Singer is a partner with Singer Deutsch LLP, a Securities, Employment, and Entertainment law firm with offices in New York City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Singer is designated as a Martindale-Hubbell “AV Preeminent” ranked attorney by his peers in the areas of Labor, Employment, Litigation and Securities Law. Singer was designated as a "New York Super Lawyer" in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016, having been chosen for this distinction by both his peers and through independent research conducted by Law & Politics. Only five percent of New York metro attorneys have been named to the list. Singer lives in New York City and Water Mill, New York with his wife and their daughter and son. Singer graduated Magna Cum Laude from Tufts University in 1989, and he received his JD from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1992.
Career
Singer started his legal career at Rosenman & Colin LLP in New York (now, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP) following graduation from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1992. In 1996, Singer joined Proskauer Rose LLP in New York. He moved to the firm's Los Angeles office in 2001.
In 2003, Singer and Michael Deutsch, a Georgetown Law classmate and an NHL hockey agent, formed Singer Deutsch LLP in New York. The firm opened its Los Angeles office in 2007 and its San Francisco office in 2009.