John P. Mastando III is a partner in Weil’s Litigation Department and is a member of the Complex Commercial Litigation practice group. Mr. Mastando has successfully represented corporate clients in a wide range of disputes, including insurance, reinsurance, antitrust, intellectual property, contract, partnership, fraud, and unfair and deceptive acts and practices matters. He is well-versed in all phases of litigation, including trials and appeals, and has particularly extensive experience in bankruptcy litigation, nationwide class actions, and ICC arbitrations.
Mr. Mastando has been counsel to clients in numerous industries, including insurance, private equity, electronics, financial services, banking, telecommunications, television, and internet and e-commerce. Notable representative clients include General Electric, Genworth Financial, Sanofi, Farmers Insurance Group, Capital One, ESPN, General Electric Financial Assurance, C-III Asset Management, General Growth Properties, Inc., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Washington Mutual, Inc., Citigroup, baazee.com (now eBay India), GE Lighting, First Colony Life Insurance Company, Credit Suisse First Boston, Conseco Senior Health Insurance Company, Conseco Life Insurance Company, baazee.com (StarTV), GE Aviation, Penn Treaty Network America Insurance Company, The Travelers Insurance Company, InfoNXX, Ronald S. Lauder Communications, Inc., and Gen3 Partners.
Outside of his active practice, Mr. Mastando is involved in a broad array of professional, media and scholarly organizations. He was a member of the Committee on Insurance Law of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (ABCNY) from 2008-2011. He was also a member of the Law360 Insurance Editorial Advisory Board from 2012-2013, and recently was featured in Law360’s Q&A series focusing on insurance litigation developments (available here).
Mr. Mastando currently is a member of the Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics of the ABCNY, served as secretary of this Committee from 2006-2008, and was also a member from 2002-2005.
Mr. Mastando also has been a guest lecturer at Columbia University Law School, and has taught numerous programs at PLI, the ABCNY, and the New York State Judicial Institute, among other organizations.
At Weil, Mr. Mastando has lectured on numerous topics, including ethics, discovery, and the enforceability of liquidated damages, and he has been a frequent instructor in deposition and evidence workshops. Mr. Mastando is also a member of Weil’s Hiring and Ethics Committees, and was a Summer Associate Program coordinator for many years.
From December 1999-May 2000, Mr. Mastando was seconded to Citigroup, where he reported to the General Counsel – Litigation on all aspects of numerous matters.
From 1997-1998, Mr. Mastando clerked for the Honorable Federico A. Moreno, currently Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, where he worked on all aspects of more than 200 civil and criminal matters, including numerous jury trials.
Mr. Mastando received his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and an associate editor of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review and A Jailhouse Lawyer’s Manual. Mr. Mastando graduated cum laude from Columbia College, Columbia University with a B.A. in Political Science.
Mr. Mastando is admitted to the bars of both New York and New Jersey, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second, Third and Tenth Circuits, and the United States District Courts for the Southern District of New York, the Eastern District of New York, and the District of Colorado. He is also a member of the litigation sections of the American and New York State Bar Associations.