Robert Bernstein offers efficient, legally sound, business-oriented solutions to complex commercial matters. With more than 30 years of experience handling domestic and international commercial disputes, Mr. Bernstein has particular experience in antitrust, commodities, derivatives, accounting malpractice, insurance coverage, construction law, and municipal law and property tax matters.

Mr. Bernstein founded his own firm in 2016 after a 26-year career at Kaye Scholer LLP, where he was of counsel in New York and a partner in the firm’s Frankfurt, Germany office. He served briefly as a partner at Vandenberg & Feliu LLP and Eaton & Van Winkle LLP in Manhattan.

He has extensive experience in complex domestic and international commercial litigation. He has represented and advised many U.S. and foreign companies in the areas of commercial contract disputes, antitrust, commodities, derivatives, futures trading, hedge funds, insurance coverage, minority shareholder disputes, accounting and legal malpractice, real estate ownership issues, and employment disputes.

Mr. Bernstein has litigated in state and federal trial and appellate courts throughout the United States and worked with local counsel in connection with legal proceedings in Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and Bolivia. He has also participated in arbitration proceedings before the AAA and JAMS, and mediation proceedings in a variety of different fora.

 He has also assisted clients in matters involving law enforcement and government regulatory agencies in the United States and abroad. He is frequently quoted by such publications as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Bloomberg, and Metal Bulletin.