JAIME FRIED
Direct Tel: +1 332 296 8320
Email: jfried@brithem.com
Jaime Fried’s practice focuses on complex, high-stakes commercial litigation, representing clients through every stage of a dispute, from early case strategy and discovery through appeal. Her caseload spans merger challenges, employment actions, and contractual and other business disputes, and she has developed a reputation for building rigorous, well-researched positions under pressure. Jaime also has a robust real estate practice, where she advises clients on pre-litigation strategy, helping them assess exposure and chart a course before a dispute escalates, and represents them in active litigation once a matter proceeds to court.
Jaime’s client representations have spanned a wide variety of sophisticated industries, including real estate, financial, technology, insurance, healthcare, legal, and pharma. She has worked with both emerging businesses and established market leaders, tailoring her approach to each client’s commercial priorities.
Before joining Brithem, Jaime was an associate at Debevoise & Plimpton. She previously clerked for the Hon. Stanley Marcus of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and received her J.D., summa cum laude, from Brooklyn Law School, where she was the valedictorian of her class and served as executive articles editor of the Brooklyn Law Review.
Credentials
Brooklyn Law School, J.D., summa cum laude
Cornell University, B.S.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, Law Clerk
Debevoise & Plimpton, Associate
New York Bar, Admitted
Southern District of New York, Admitted
Eastern District of New York, Admitted
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Admitted
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Admitted
Impact Matters
Helped judgment creditors pursue a path to recovery against a sovereign default.
Jaime represented Gramercy Funds Management as a judgment creditor of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, working to enforce a group of judgment creditors’ litigation awards through the sale of the U.S. holdings of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., the Venezuelan state-owned oil and natural gas company and parent of CITGO Petroleum Corp.
Secured a First Amendment win protecting faculty independence at a public university.
Jaime represented a group of University of Florida professors in a First Amendment challenge against university leadership, arguing that a “conflict-of-interest” policy was being used to bar faculty from serving as expert witnesses when their views ran counter to the administration’s positions. She helped secure a preliminary injunction from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, which found the policy unconstitutional and barred the university from enforcing it.
Guided a Fortune 100 financial institution through a major operational crisis.
Jaime represented a Fortune 100 financial services entity in an internal investigation following a widespread business continuity event triggered by a large-scale data center outage.
Overall Experience
Jaime’s representative matters include:
- The International Center for Law & Economics as amici curiae before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in the NFL Sunday Ticket antitrust litigation, arguing that the district court correctly rejected the plaintiffs’ unsupported theories of antitrust injury and that the NFL’s bundled distribution model was procompetitive.
- A major U.S. company in a civil appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
- Proskauer in successfully obtaining a preliminary injunction enjoining the misappropriation of trade secrets by its former Chief Operating Officer.
- A major banking institution in responding to an insider cyber threat to its systems.
- A prominent retail chain in neutralizing a significant ransomware attack that disrupted company
operations. - United Property and Casualty Insurance Co. in a successful dismissal with prejudice of a RICO action filed in the Middle District of Florida concerning their handling of insurance claims arising from hurricane damages.
- GlaxoSmithKline in successfully prosecuting claims in a federal lawsuit alleging that a generic version of GSK’s ADVAIR inhaler made by Respirent Pharmaceuticals infringed GSK’s trade dress rights, following which Respirent made significant changes to the appearance of its product.
- A major online retailer in the healthcare space in responding to a “credential stuffing” cyberattack.
- Discovery, Inc. in the acquisition of WarnerMedia from AT&T in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction that values the combined entity at approximately $130 billion.
- A leading private equity firm in investigating and responding to a cybersecurity incident involving diverted wire transfers.
- A Fortune 100 financial services entity in an internal investigation following a widespread business continuity event triggered by a large-scale data center outage.
- Gramercy Funds Management in its capacity as a judgment creditor of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in seeking to enforce a group of judgment creditors’ litigation awards through the sale of the U.S. holdings of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA), the Venezuelan state-owned oil and natural gas company and parent company of CITGO Petroleum Corp.
- Albertsons in the FTC’s, Colorado Attorney General’s, and Washington Attorney General’s challenges to its merger with Kroger.
- Ripple in a ruling against the SEC in the SDNY holding that Ripple’s digital token XRP is not a security or “investment contract” in many circumstances.
- A group of venture capital funds as amici curiae in the FTC’s challenge to the proposed merger between Microsoft Corp. and Activision-Blizzard Inc.
- A group of University of Florida professors in a First Amendment challenge against university leadership over a policy barring faculty from serving as expert witnesses whose views conflicted with the administration’s positions, securing a preliminary injunction that found the policy unconstitutional.