Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Lawrence B. Friedman is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Friedman’s practice focuses on international and domestic commercial litigation and arbitration, including in such fields as mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, international banking, and marketing and licensing agreements, and in disputes concerning intellectual property infringement and misappropriation. Mr. Friedman has particularly extensive experience in counseling clients in multi-jurisdictional litigation and arbitration.

Mr. Friedman joined the firm in 1983 and became a partner in 1991.

Mr. Friedman is a member of the Bar in New York and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second and Federal Circuits, and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Eastern, Western and Northern Districts of New York. He was the inaugural chair of the International Commercial Dispute Resolution Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and was Secretary of the Association’s Committee to Enhance Diversity in the Legal Profession.

Mr. Friedman received a J.D. degree, cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1982, and an undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in 1979. Mr. Friedman also served as law clerk to the Honorable Charles P. Sifton of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.