Ben Rose is a Litigation Partner at Adam Leitman Bailey P.C. He is a seasoned litigator and trial lawyer with more than fifteen years’ experience in a broad range of complex commercial matters including contract, securities, bankruptcy, and real estate-related litigation, as well as white collar criminal defense and prosecution. Having litigated and tried numerous state and federal cases, Mr. Rose has been described as “fearless in the courtroom,” and has been lauded as having “conducted the best cross-examination” and delivered “one of the strongest closing arguments” seen by fellow attorneys.
Mr. Rose started his career at White & Case LLP in the Commercial Litigation Group. His practice included representing Major League Baseball in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ bankruptcy; defending a Wall Street trader accused of participation in a fraudulent trading scheme resulting in over $500B in claimed damages; and advocating for a major investment bank in a New York state trial over a stockholder agreement dispute; among various other matters.
At Dechert LLP, Mr. Rose continued to focus on complex commercial litigation as well as on white-collar criminal defense and internal investigations. He was lead counsel in New York state court litigation between a commercial tenant and landlord concerning alleged contractual and NYC Department of Buildings violations; trial counsel to a Broadway theater company in a hotly contested partnership dispute over breaches of lease and partnership agreements that resulted in a sweeping victory before the Delaware Supreme Court; trial counsel for a broker-dealer accused of causing a $25M trading loss in synthetic futures in a three-week long FINRA arbitration; hearing counsel in successful opposition to LATAM Airlines’ unprecedented Debtor-in-Possession proposal in highly expedited bankruptcy proceedings; counsel to Fox News in a breach of employment contract litigation that included crossclaims of employer retaliation; and he successfully represented a residential developer in a multifaceted dispute that involved prosecution of municipal discrimination, religious land use and Free Exercise violations, related Article 78 proceedings, and the defeat of a specious cross-civil RICO suit.
On the white-collar side, Mr. Rose was the lead investigation counsel to a major transit authority agency concerning whistleblower claims of self-dealing by the board of directors; representative before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in response to suspicions of opioid epidemic-related pharmaceutical price hikes; lead employee counsel in defense of a DOJ prosecution for alleged government contract overbilling; and he led the successful defense of a military contractor accused of providing US military equipment to enemies of the state; in addition to numerous other SEC and DOJ matters.
Most recently, Mr. Rose spent four years as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney’s Office Financial Frauds Bureau, which also encompasses the Housing and Tenant Protection Unit. He spearheaded numerous investigations and the prosecution of all manner of financial frauds, including millions stolen in the diamond industry; Ponzi schemes; corporate embezzlement; real estate, housing, immigration, and attorney fraud; and beyond. From initial intake through trial, Mr. Rose managed a substantial caseload, working hand-in-hand with law enforcement partners to further justice and protect the welfare of Manhattanites.
Mr. Rose has been called upon to deliver presentations to committees, community, and corporate boards, in-house counsel groups, students, and colleagues on topics ranging from responding to SEC Wells Notices, the nuances of the amended rules of civil procedure, the role and obligations of prosecutors, and trial techniques and strategy.
Mr. Rose received his bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins University and juris doctorate from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Managing Editor of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. After Columbia, he clerked in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida. Mr. Rose is a member in good standing of the bars of New York, the Second Circuit, the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the District of Connecticut. He has handled appeals before the First and Second Departments, and the Delaware Supreme Court.