Howard Comet has been a Litigation partner with the firm’s New York office since 1990. Mr. Comet has litigated and tried cases involving a wide variety of industries and legal issues in courts throughout the country. He has specialized in commercial litigation related to bankruptcy proceedings, intellectual property issues and litigation in the New York State courts. The major cases in which he has been involved have concerned banking and finance, art law, mortgage foreclosure, patents and intellectual property licensing, antitrust, biotechnology, employment discrimination, medical products and government contracting.
Mr. Comet has worked on numerous high-profile bankruptcy cases, including the bankruptcy cases of Lehman Brothers, Parmalat, Enron, Eastern Air Lines, Drexel Burnham Lambert, and Dow Chemical. In these cases, he has litigated matters involving complex issues of bankruptcy jurisdiction, claims allowance and plan confirmation.
Prior to joining the firm in 1985, Mr. Comet had extensive experience in criminal defense litigation. Mr. Comet then clerked for Judge Bernard Meyer of the New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, who invited Mr. Comet to apply for the job based on his appearances before the Court. Both prior to and since joining the firm, Mr. Comet has argued dozens of appeals in the New York State appellate courts and in several federal Courts of Appeals.
Mr. Comet serves on the firm’s Ethics Committee and is a member of the Complex Commercial Litigation practice group.