Mr. Neil Goteiner

Neil Goteiner
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Neil Goteiner
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Neil Goteiner

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Hired by former adversaries, Neil Goteiner a partner at Hennigan, Bennett and Dorman, comes up with novel theories while handling securities, antitrust, intellectual property, consumer internet and complex commercial litigation.Recently Mr. Goteiner successfully represented Sony in an alter ego-fraud action claim; negotiated a $500 million securities class action settlement; successfully represented a national investment bank in a California UCA Section 17200 class action; and won a $5 million and attorneys fees award for Thomas Weisel Partners in an inter-investment banking firm dispute.Mr. Goteiner has recently represented plaintiff in a $600 million securities fraud action and provided counsel in an internet suit addressing cutting-edge SPAM issues.

Mr. Goteiner has tried lawsuits in state and federal courts across the nation, representing both plaintiffs and defendants.He has defended clients in FTC, NYSE, NASD, FRB, SEC and CFTC proceedings, often quickly resolving thorny issues.He obtained the only successful resolution of a governmental consumer fraud investigation of an industry - all but Mr. Goteiner's clients were sued for consumer fraud and paid fines.In a consolidated FTC/class action against a national financial organization, he successfully settled an $80 million false advertising suit for nuisance value.He helped negotiate, within two weeks, a billion dollar dispute in the pharmaceutical industry involving internet activities.

In a hard-fought battle for investors, Mr. Goteiner was lead plaintiffs' counsel representing 20,000 customers of a South Florida telemarketing boiler room put out of business by the CFTC.The CFTC was unable to obtain any damages from the upstream owners.Mr. Goteiner and his small team of three attorneys waged an eight-year battle and a six-month trial in federal district court in Miami against the upstream owners and their seven national law firms.After the evidence was in, and on the eve of the case going to the jury, defendants gave up and paid some $40 million.

Mr. Goteiner received a B.A. from Yale in 1970 and a J.D. from Rutgers University in 1974, where he was on Law Review.He is admitted to practice in California and in New York.