Mr. Horowitz has experience in a broad range of areas, including civil and white collar securities law, bankruptcy litigation, professional liability, consumer class actions, environmental liability, intellectual property, and complex commercial arbitration.  He specializes in working with expert witnesses, having written and lectured extensively on the subject, and is particularly experienced in issues involving sophisticated valuation, economic analysis, and accounting issues.

Mr. Horowitz has had prominent roles in the bankruptcies of MCI/WorldCom (leading the expert work on behalf of the junior MCI creditors), Owens Corning (economic and estimation expert work for the bank creditors), and WCI Steel (lead trial counsel for the Secured Noteholders); securities class actions arising from the Michael Milken/Ivan Boesky scandal and two of the largest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history; major accounting malpractice actions; and private arbitrations for Johnson & Johnson and Procter & Gamble.   He has worked with, and against, virtually every leading economic consulting group in the country; numerous prominent accounting firms and investment banks; and many of the nation’s most prominent economists and accounting experts.

Representative Transactions

Among other clients, Mr. Horowitz has represented Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Liz Claiborne, UBS PaineWebber, and Advest, as well as several major law firms and accounting firms. Significant representations that resulted in reported decisions include: Bennett v. Kirkpatrick & Lockhart et al., 336 F.3d 94 (2d Cir. 2003); Breeden v. Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP et al., 268 B.R. 704 (S.D.N.Y. 2001); Fishbaum v. Liz Claiborne, Inc., et al., 1999 Fed. Sec. L. Rep. 90,676 (2d Cir. 1999); Dinsmore v. Squadron, Ellenoff, Plesent, Sheinfeld & Sorkin, 135 F.3d 837 (2d Cir. 1998); and Elghanian v. Harvey, et al., 671 N.Y.S.2d 266 (1st Dep't 1998).

J.D., Yale Law School, 1989

• Note Editor, Yale Law Journal, 1988-1989

B.A., magna cum laude, Wesleyan University, 1984

Honorable Walter K. Stapleton, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1989 - 1990

New York, 1991

U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York, 1998
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 1991
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, 1991
U.S. Supreme Court

The Association of the Bar of the City of New York - Member, Federal Courts Committee (2000-2003)
American Bar Association - Member, Subcommittee on Trademark and the Internet  (1998-1999)
Northside Center for Child Development - Board Member
Heartsong, Inc. - Board Member