Jack Levin is independent arbitrator and mediator with over 25 years’ experience handling complex commercial, securities, finance, employment, and other high conflict disputes. He serves on domestic and international panels and has arbitrated over 120 matters (most of them as chair or sole arbitrator) and mediated hundreds more.
Experience
Securities, financial institutions, instruments and trading, hedge funds, derivatives, securities clearing, investor claims, investment management and broker-dealer issues. Mergers and acquisitions, including proxy and related issues, investment banker/client disputes, post-closing claims and corporate and partnership break-ups (including family-held businesses). Employment and partnership disputes (including investment, law, accounting, architecture, and design), corporate raiding, intellectual property, non-competition and non-solicitation, wrongful termination, compensation, defamation, race, sex, gender, and ethnic discrimination, FLSA and state wage and hour laws. Other domestic and cross-border commercial disputes, including public company auditing, insurance (including mortgage backed securities and M&A), banking, real estate, blockchain, digital assets, cryptocurrency, IT outsourcing, pharmaceutical, medical device, and other patent licensing, architecture and design, aviation, defense contracting, art and auctions, energy/power plants, waste management, false advertising, unfair competition, and internet-related claims. Civil rights, including claims by persons in state care. Family, divorce and other relationship disputes. In executive and investment disputes, experience includes interpretation of partnership and operating agreements, partnership accounting, tax, capital accounts, valuation, and other buy-out terms, as well as sensitive issues of performance and personal misconduct. For further detail, see www.levinadr.com.
Work History
Law Clerk, Hon. Murray I. Gurfein, U.S. District Judge, Southern District of New York, 1971-1972; Associate, Davis Polk & Wardwell, 1972-1983; Founding Partner, Howard Darby & Levin, 1983-1998; Partner, Howard Smith & Levin,1998-1999; Partner, Covington & Burling LLP, 1999-2011; Director of Litigation, UBS Warburg (North America), 2001; Retired Partner of Covington & Burling LLP since 2011; Independent Arbitrator and Mediator, 2011 to present.
Cases
Accounting, Art/Auction, Aviation, Banking, Blockchain, Civil Rights, Commercial, Contracts, Copyright, Corporate Raiding, Defense Contracting, Discrimination, Distributorships, Domestic Relationships, Emergency Matters, Employment, Energy/Power Plants, Entertainment, Executive Disputes, Family Business/Succession, Financial Instruments, High Conflict Disputes, ICC Arbitration Tribunal, Immigration, Information Technology, Insider Trading, Insurance, Intellectual Property, International Trade, Investment Banking, Mergers & Acquisitions, Multi-Party Disputes, Non-Competition, Non-Solicitation, Partnership Disputes, Patent Licensing, Pharmaceuticals, Professional Firms, Professional Liability, Real Estate, Securities and Clearing, Trademark, Unfair Competition, Waste Management
Training
AAA, ICC, CPR, CIArb, US District Court (Southern District of New York) Investor-State Mediation Training, sponsored by the International Centre for the Settlement of International Disputes, the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution, the International Energy Charter Secretariat, and the International Mediation Institute
License(s)
Admitted to the Bar: New York; New Jersey; U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; U.S. Supreme Court
Education
Rutgers College (BA); University of Pennsylvania (JD)
Panels
Large Complex Case and Commercial Panels of the American Arbitration Association Arbitration Panel of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution Master Mediator Panel of the American Arbitration Association Banking, Accounting and Financial Services, Cross-Border and Employment Panels of CPR: The International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution Panel of Investor State Mediators of the ADGM Arbitration Centre and the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR)
Associations
Fellow, College of Commercial Arbitrators; Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; CPR: The International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (Advisory Council, Arbitration Committee, Mediation Committee, Banking & Financial Services Committee); International Arbitration Club of New York; Member, Silicon Valley Mediation and Arbitration Center; American Bar Association (Dispute Resolution Section); New York State Bar Association (Dispute Resolution Section).
