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Jennifer S. Recine is a first-chair trial lawyer with extensive experience handling complex real estate disputes; disputes concerning distressed assets, structured products and CMBS; civil RICO; securities actions; regulatory disputes, professional malpractice; tax; and other high-stakes matters. Jennifer’s securities experience includes representing activist investors, class action defense, and defending against short-selling attacks on publicly traded companies on civil RICO, First Amendment, and other grounds.
Jennifer‘s bet-the-company cases often focus on crisis management, or other existential threats, including sensitive tax disputes or government overreach where protection of clients‘ reputational interests are paramount.
Jennifer is recognized as a leading real estate litigator by Chambers USA, with clients noting that she is “a force to be reckoned with” and “a very commercial lawyer.” In the real estate sector, Jennifer advises clients on commercial real estate, land use, and environmental disputes involving the investment, development, hospitality and hospitality-related intellectual property, construction, and sale of billions of dollars in real estate assets and infrastructure projects.
Jennifer is recognized as one of the nation’s top litigators by publications including Crain’s New York (Notable Leaders in Real Estate, Notable Women in Law), Law360 (Real Estate MVP), Lawdragon (500 Leading Litigators in America), Chambers USA, The Legal 500, Benchmark Litigation (Top 250 Women in Litigation), National Law Journal (Litigation Trailblazer; Real Estate Trailblazer), Diversity Journal (Woman to Watch), and Bisnow (Female Power Players).
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center
B.A., University of Vermont
New York
Member of She Builds
August 14, 2024
Benchmark Litigation Names Five King & Spalding Partners to its List of Top 250 Women in Litigation
July 29, 2024
Crain’s New York Business Names Jennifer Recine to its 2024 Notable Real Estate Leaders List
Representing Bath Club Entertainment and developer R. Donahue Peebles in actions against members of a neighboring condominium association and others “determined to interfere with the successful management of the historic Bath Club on Miami Beach.”
Secured dismissal with prejudice of a federal RICO suit brought against The Manhattan Club, a luxury timeshare property in midtown Manhattan, and affiliates.
Representing Chelsea Hotel Owner, Ira Drukier, Richard Born, and Sean MacPherson in an ongoing § 1983 action against the City of New York for more than $100 million in damages arising from the City’s wrongful reclassification of the iconic Hotel Chelsea and revocation of it valid permit, six years into the building’s redevelopment.
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August 14, 2024
Benchmark Litigation Names Five King & Spalding Partners to its List of Top 250 Women in Litigation
July 29, 2024
Crain’s New York Business Names Jennifer Recine to its 2024 Notable Real Estate Leaders List
Representing Bath Club Entertainment and developer R. Donahue Peebles in actions against members of a neighboring condominium association and others “determined to interfere with the successful management of the historic Bath Club on Miami Beach.”
Secured dismissal with prejudice of a federal RICO suit brought against The Manhattan Club, a luxury timeshare property in midtown Manhattan, and affiliates.
Representing Chelsea Hotel Owner, Ira Drukier, Richard Born, and Sean MacPherson in an ongoing § 1983 action against the City of New York for more than $100 million in damages arising from the City’s wrongful reclassification of the iconic Hotel Chelsea and revocation of it valid permit, six years into the building’s redevelopment.
See more
August 14, 2024
Benchmark Litigation Names Five King & Spalding Partners to its List of Top 250 Women in Litigation
July 29, 2024
Crain’s New York Business Names Jennifer Recine to its 2024 Notable Real Estate Leaders List
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center
B.A., University of Vermont
New York
Member of She Builds