Jason S. Friedman is of counsel in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he is a member of Gibson Dunn’s Global Finance Practice Group.

​Mr. Friedman’s practice primarily involves representation of borrowers, private equity sponsors, banks and other financial institutions in a variety of financing transactions.  He also has extensive experience representing agent banks, secured and unsecured lenders, credit-based alternative asset managers and private equity sponsors in connection with all aspects of complex out-of-court restructurings, bankruptcy cases, special situation investments and distressed acquisitions.

Mr. Friedman earned his Juris Doctor in 2007 from Northwestern University School of Law, where he served on the editorial board of The Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology.  Prior to attending law school, Mr. Friedman was a marketing consultant as well as a member of the management team at an innovative Internet technology company.  Mr. Friedman graduated from Cornell University in 1999 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Mr. Friedman was a corporate associate in the Restructuring and Bankruptcy Group of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York.

Mr. Friedman is admitted to practice in the State of New York.

Publications

• Author, “Whiskey & the Wires: the Improvident Application of the Wire Fraud Statute to Alcohol Smuggling & Foreign Tax Evasion,” 96 The Journal Criminal Law & Criminology 911 (2006).