Lawyers

GEOFFREY W. HEINEMAN

Partner — New York

EXPERIENCE

For over twenty years, Geoffrey W. Heineman has focused his practice in the area of business counseling with extensive experience litigating actions involving coverage disputes, commercial contracts, securities laws, employment practices, and intellectual property issues. Mr. Heineman has handled these actions on behalf of both domestic and foreign insurers and reinsurers, corporations, directors and officers and other professionals (including lawyers, agents, brokers, and architects and engineers) in numerous state and federal courts throughout the United States. Mr. Heineman also regularly represents clients in both arbitrations as well as mediations. He is widely recognized as an expert in matters pertaining to insurance coverage and corporate governance, with an emphasis on policies issued to directors and officers, financial institutions (including mutual funds), agents and brokers, attorneys and other professionals, as well as policies providing coverage for complex property losses. Mr. Heineman has also assisted client debtors who face financial difficulties, as well as client creditors, in both Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.

In addition, Mr. Heineman frequently consults on drafting insurance policies, interpreting claims issues, and acts as coverage counsel in many complex cases. For example, among the matters Mr. Heineman has recently been involved with include In Re: Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation as well as securities and ERISA actions brought against RiteAid Corporation, AT&T Corp., Honeywell International, Inc., Electronic Data Systems Corporation, Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation, Priceline.com, Royal Dutch Shell PLC, U.S. Airways, El Paso Corporation, State Street Corporation, Countrywide Financial Corp. and Toll Brothers, Inc. Mr. Heineman’s assistance has also been sought by clients in addressing the complex insurance issues arising out of the subprime mortgage crisis including those involving securities litigations against investment advisors, fund managers, mortgage companies and brokers and commercial banks.

Mr. Heineman is a frequent lecturer on issues related to directors and officers and ERISA coverage, claims defense management, and loss prevention techniques to various professional services firms and organizations, including the Association of Corporate Counsel and the Professional Liability Underwriting Society.

Mr. Heineman received his Bachelor’s degree from New York University in 1980 and his law degree from St. John’s University School of Law in 1983. He was admitted to practice in 1984 and earned an LL.M. in corporation and securities law from New York University School of Law in 1988.