Stephen M. Tannenbaum
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Stephen Mitchell Tannenbaum

Associate

Phone: (808) 524-1800
Direct: (808) 441-6120
Fax: (808) 524-5976
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Representative Cases

  • Recently vacated six-figure judgment against a joint venture partner in a business dispute based on alleged alter ego violations.  (2011)
  • Successfully lobbied against initiatives that would have placed liability on publishers and authors for trespass by readers of books, guides and websites on Hawai`i and which infringed on their first amendment rights.  (2011)
  • Second chaired and obtained a defense verdict in a month-long, highly publicized federal securities fraud trial seeking damages in excess of $500 million from one of the largest landowners in Hawai`i.  (2009)
  • Second chaired and won a defense decision after a trial involving million-dollar-plus damages resulting from alleged fraudulent transfers.  (2009)
  • Brought an action on behalf of Japanese residents to collect a near-million-dollar judgment from relatives in Hawai`i, and successfully negotiated a settlement for the full amount sought, plus all attorneys' fees and costs, in the first six months of the case.  (2008)

Practice Areas

Commercial Litigation
Securities Litigation
Banking and Finance Litigation
Antitrust and Trade Regulation
Business Torts
Partnerships and Shareholder Disputes
Complex Real Estate Litigation
Class Actions

Admitted to Practice

  • Hawai`i
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Hawai`i
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York 

Affiliations

  • Hawai`i State Bar Association
  • American Bar Association
  • Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund
  • Court Annexed Arbitration Program, Arbitrator
  • Hawai`i Society of Business Professionals

Education

  • New York University School of Law (J.D.)
  • Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania (B.S. Economics)

Past Positions

  • Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy, New York, NY
  • Morrison & Foerster, LLP, New York, NY
  • Friedland Laifer & Robbins, New York, NY

Born

  • New Brunswick, New Jersey