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Alan Kanzer

Senior Counsel


Alan Kanzer is a former co-chair of the firm's International Litigation Group. He is also a member of the firm's Antitrust and Investigations Group, and concentrates his practice on international litigation and arbitration, antitrust and other complex commercial litigation. Mr. Kanzer is a member of the American Bar Association's Antitrust, and International Litigation sections, as well as the Bar Association of the City of New York.

Representative Experience

  • Currently defending a major German chemical company in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in the third of a series of federal price-fixing cases in the ferrosilicon industry.
  • Currently defending an Austrian bank and a Hungarian company in Alien Tort Claims actions and claims for other international torts in federal courts in the District of Columbia and the Seventh Circuit.
  • Successfully obtained dismissals of Alien Tort Claims actions and claims for other international torts against German companies in the District of Columbia and Second and Third Circuits.
  • Lead attorney in the defense of a domestic plastics additives manufacturer in four related price-fixing antitrust class actions in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the California Superior Court.
  • Recently successfully defended a foreign, quasi-governmental corporation in a commercial dispute in the Southern District of New York involving the refining of high purity gold.
  • Successfully obtained dismissals of Alien Tort Claims actions and claims for other international torts against companies in federal courts in the District of Columbia and Second and Third Circuits.


Alan Kanzer

90 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10016-1387
Phone: 212-210-9480
Fax: 212-210-9444

Education

  • Yale University
    (LL.B., 1968)
  • Columbia University
    (B.A., 1965)

Admitted to Practice

  • New York