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

Appellate

Securities Litigation

Sports Law

Education

Tilburg University, SJD, with highest honors, 2001

Harvard Law School, LL.M., 1997

Oxford University, M.Jur., 1994

Leiden University, Law and Political Science, 1993; Clavareau Prize

Languages Spoken

Dutch

French

German

Afrikaans

Admissions

New York

United States Courts of Appeals: Second, Fourth and Ninth Circuits

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

Olav A. Haazen, PhD, is counsel in the firm's Armonk office. His main practice areas are antitrust, securities, sports and entertainment, class actions, appellate, commercial contracts, and business torts.

Dr. Haazen's varied background includes the successful representation of major corporate clients in several high-profile RICO, securities, and government investigation matters; the Nevada Power Company in a significant contract dispute with Enron; and one of the largest franchisors in professional sports, NASCAR, in a $1.2 billion monopolization suit. Recently, Dr. Haazen helped secure complete victories for NASCAR and its CEO in high-profile defamation and employment discrimination litigation over the drug-related suspension of Sprint Cup driver, Jeremy Mayfield; Delta Airlines against American Airlines' trade secret and unfair competition claims; the Town of North Castle in a $600 million lawsuit by Donald Trump's Seven Springs LLC (which settled for $0); and a well-known playwright against a civil forfeiture claim arising out of Kenneth Starr's ‘Ponzi' scheme.

Dr. Haazen also has significant experience representing plaintiff in antitrust and fraud actions. He has represented a qui tam plaintiff in litigation arising out of the sale of Executive Life Insurance Company, and has been involved in the successful prosecution and settlement of price-fixing and consumer fraud class actions on behalf of professional fashion models. These lawsuits against major New York modeling agencies resulted in nearly $22 million in settlements-securing a virtually unprecedented 100% recovery of all claimants' losses-as well as substantial injunctive relief, which Justice Ramos of the New York Supreme Court lauded as a model for legislative reform.

Dr. Haazen currently represents a group of foreign investors in a putative class action against the managers of several Madoff feeder funds; Neri's Bakery Products, Inc. in a monopoly suit against competitor J.J. Cassone; and the Ferolito Owners Group in a corporate break-up of the AriZona Iced Tea companies.

Dr. Haazen has extensive appellate experience in the Second, Fourth, and Sixth Circuit Courts of Appeal, New York's Second Department, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and with U.S. Supreme Court amicus briefs. In 2010-2011, he served on the American Bar Association's seven-member Standing Committee for Amicus Curiae briefs. Prior to joining the firm, Dr. Haazen represented a habeas petitioner and obtained a sentence reduction, advancing a theory later endorsed by the U.S. Supreme Court in Ring v. Arizona, 536 U.S. 584 (2002). See Santana-Madera v. United States, 260 F.3d 133 (2d Cir. 2001).

Dr. Haazen has written two books and over 40 articles and case notes. From 1996-2001, he served as a Country Reporter for the Netherlands for the European Restatement of Torts, and recently as a Netherlands Reporter to the 17thInternational Congress of Comparative Law. He has lectured on global class actions and U.S. law at Stanford, Oxford, and Leiden, and taught constitutional law and political philosophy as a Teaching Fellow at Harvard.

Selected Professional Awards and Associations

American Bar Association (Standing Committee Amicus Curiae Briefs (2010-11); Alternative Litigation Financing Working Group (2010-11))
Netherlands Tort Lawyers Association (Board member)

Selected Publications and Presentations

Precedent in the World Court, 38 Harv. Int'l L.J. 587 (1997)
The European Principles of Tort Law, 3 Zeitschrift fuer Europaeisches Privatrecht 469 (1999)