Olav A. Haazen

Counsel
Armonk

t: 914 749 8386
f: 914 749 8300

ohaazen@bsfllp.com

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Areas of Practice

Litigation

Antitrust

Securities Litigation

Education

Tilburg University, SJD, with highest honors, Law of Transitions/Retroactive Lawmaking, 2001; Netherlands representative to task force on European tort law unification

Harvard Law School, LL.M., 1997

Oxford University, M.Jur., English and Comparative Law, 1994; Guest lecturer, American Legal Thought seminar, Oxford University; teaching fellow, Moral & Political Philosphy; The Warren Court, Harvard University

Leiden University, Dutch Law, Dutch Law and Political Science, 1993; Clavareau Prize; President Leiden Political Science Students Society; President, Law Honor Society

Languages Spoken

Dutch

French

German

Afrikaans

Admissions

New York

United States Courts of Appeals: Second Circuit

United States District Courts: Southern and Eastern Districts of New York

Olav A. Haazen's main practice areas include antitrust and securities class actions, bankruptcy and other complex litigation.

Mr. Haazen has worked on a wide variety of matters, including several securities class actions against major corporate clients, which also involved regulatory action, personal actions against former officers and directors, arbitration issues and foreign litigation; a major landlord-tenant dispute related to one of New York’s landmark office buildings; a contract dispute between a large power company and former energy trader Enron; monopolization claims against one of the largest franchisors in professional sports; and, for the plaintiff, qui tam and related litigation arising out of the sale of Executive Life Insurance Co., which led to $1 billion in fines, penalties, and damages. He has also been involved in the successful prosecution and settlement of a price-fixing class action on behalf of thousands of professional fashion models against the major New York modeling agencies, which resulted in almost $22 million in settlements and secured complete recovery of all claimants’ losses as well as substantial injunctive relief, which Justice Ramos of the New York Supreme Court, addressing the New York legislature in a related consumer fraud class action, lauded as a model for legislative reform.

Prior to joining the firm in 2002, Mr. Haazen was an associate at Shearman & Sterling and a lieutenant in the Royal Netherlands Army's Legal Department. At Shearman, he assisted among others the Prosecutor’s Office of the Rwanda Tribunal, defended securities class actions, and obtained a sentence reduction for a convicted cocaine dealer after a habeas appeal seeking retroactive application of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Apprendi v. New Jersey.

Over the years, Mr. Haazen has taught a variety of seminars and courses including constitutional law and moral and political philosophy as a teaching fellow at Harvard, American legal thought at a graduate seminar at Oxford, and a CLE course on tort law developments. Recently, he served as the Netherlands Reporter on the law of precedent to the 17th International Congress of Comparative Law and until 2001 as a reporter on the law of causation for Europe’s tort law unification project.

Selected Professional Awards and Associations

American Bar Association
Netherlands Law Society

Selected Publications

Book Note, Precedent in the World Court, 38 Harv. Int'l L.J. 587 (1997)

Netherlands Law Society's Report on Tort Law and the Insurance Crisis (1996)(co-author)