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Marc D. Grossman
Marc D. Grossman, attorney
Alma mater
Occupations
  • Trial Attorney
  • Basketball team owner
Known forOwning Los Mets de Guaynabo

Marc D. Grossman is an American attorney, basketball team owner, and Broadway producer.[1] He is currently based in Puerto Rico and New York.[2]

Grossman co-owns Los Mets de Guaynabo, a professional basketball team in Puerto Rico's Baloncesto Superior Nacional.[1][3] The team was reinstated with Grossman and another co-owner, attorney Mark Linder, in 2019 after going defunct in 2015.[4][5]

His focus as a lawyer is on consumer litigation against medical providers and other class action lawsuits.[6][7] Grossman has represented clients in litigation against companies like Pfizer, Merck, Volkswagen, and Johnson & Johnson.[2][8][9][10][11][12]

Since 2014, Grossman has lived and worked in Puerto Rico.[13][14]

Early life and education

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Grossman was born in Oceanside, New York in January 1968.[2] Grossman received his bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 1989 and his MBA from Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College in 1993. He received his JD from Brooklyn Law School in 1993. During law school he interned for the United Nations Law Department.[2] He has been admitted to the bar in four states (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Illinois), as well as in England.[7][8]

Mets de Guaynabo

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In 2019, Grossman and attorney Mark Linder, both of whom reside in Puerto Rico, revived the once defunct Mets de Guaynabo in the island's premier basketball league, Baloncesto Superior Nacional.[14][1][3] BSN approved a Grossman and Linder-owned expansion team for the San Juan metropolitan area on November 22, 2019.[4][5] While the new ownership group initially eyed San Juan's Roberto Clemente Coliseum as their home court, scheduling conflicts made playing a full 2020 season there unrealistic.[5][4] Instead, the ownership group chose to revive the Mets de Guaynabo, an organization that last participated in the 2015 season.[3][1][15][14]

Grossman and Linder hired Puerto Rico national basketball team general manager Alfredo “Piraña” Morales to be the Mets' general manager.[15][1] Prior to the 2020 season, Grossman pursued former NBA All Star Metta World Peace to be the Mets' head coach.[16][3] As of December 2019, World Peace was scheduling tryouts for the team in Los Angeles as a favor to Grossman, but was not officially the coach.[17]

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As of 2019, Grossman is a Senior Partner at both The Sanders Firm and at Milberg, Phillips, Grossman LLP.[18] He is also an educational speaker to groups of attorneys, victims, and medical providers.[19][20][21] Grossman has contributed to "Anatomy of a Personal Injury Lawsuit"[22]

Grossman has represented clients in class action cases against pharmaceutical companies like Merck and Pfizer.[2][8][9][10][11][12]

In 2012, Grossman began representing 300 litigants in a suit against Merck after their hair loss drug Propecia began giving users enlarged breasts and impacted their sexuality.[23][24]

In 2008, Grossman began filing suits against Pfizer after users of its drug Chantix experienced suicidal tendencies.[10][11]

After the 2015 Mariana dam disaster in Brazil, Grossman and the British office of the Sanders Firm, SPG Law, represented 240,000 claimants in a £5 billion lawsuit against mining company BHP Billiton.[2][8] The suit was filed in 2018 in Liverpool and reported in the media as one of the largest claims filed in a British Court.[8][25][26] The clients Grossman's firm represented included 240,000 individuals, 24 municipal governments, 11,000 businesses, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mariana, and about 200 members of the Krenak indigenous community.[8][25][27]

Broadway producer

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As a Broadway producer, Grossman has produced four shows, including two in partnership with Broadway producer Ted Liebowitz and businessman Dennis Shields.[28] The production company they formed, known alternatively as "GLS Productions" and "Liebowitz/Grossman/Shields Productions," produced the 2018 Broadway musical King Kong and the 2017 Broadway drama Indecent.[29] On Broadway, Grossman produced the 2018 musical King Kong, the 2017 Broadway run of Paula Vogel's drama Indecent, the 2018 Jimmy Buffett musical Escape to Margaritaville, and the 2018 Broadway run of Pretty Woman: The Musical.[28][2]

Personal life

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In 2014, Grossman moved with his wife and four children to Puerto Rico, where he operated a satellite office for the Sanders Firm since 2004.[13][14]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Guaynabo Mets do not rule out signing American leader". Telemundo Puerto Rico. 5 December 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Schofeild, Taryn (3 March 2019). "Long Island Native Breaking Down Walls In The Courtroom And On Broadway". Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d Torraca, Hiram Alberto (17 December 2019). "Los Mets de Guaynabo tienen cinco candidatos para la plaza de dirigente". Primera Hora. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  4. ^ a b c Rios, Antolin Malonado (22 November 2019). "Aprueban apoderados de una nueva franquicia de expansión en el BSN". El Nueva Dia. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  5. ^ a b c Torraca, Hiram Alberto (23 November 2019). "Carmen Yulín Cruz evaluará regreso del BSN a San Juan". Primera Hora. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  6. ^ "Marc Grossman Attorney Profile". The Sanders Firm. Retrieved 2016-04-15.
  7. ^ a b "Marc Grossman, partner". Milberg.com. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  8. ^ a b c d e f Walters, Max (7 November 2018). "Us class action firm offshoot off to a flyer with £5bn claim". The Law Society Gazette. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  9. ^ a b Rose, Neil (10 September 2018). "Revealed: US firm fast-tracks UK launch using ABS's platform". Legal Futures. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  10. ^ a b c "UPDATE 1-Lawsuits claim harm from Pfizer quit-smoking drug". Reuters. 2010-01-15. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  11. ^ a b c "Ashes to Ashes: Is Champix Safe?, 2008, BBC Scotland Investigates - BBC One". BBC Scotland. 26 November 2008. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  12. ^ a b Poling, Samantha (27 November 2008). "Stop smoking drug concerns raised". BBC.
  13. ^ a b Satow, Julie (2014-09-05). "Puerto Rico Luring Buyers With Tax Breaks". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-04-22.
  14. ^ a b c d Loza, Jorge Figueroa (18 December 2019). El Nuevo Dia https://www.elnuevodia.com/deportes/baloncesto/nota/porquevalelapenainvertirenelbsnelempresarioestadounidensemarcgrossmanlotieneclaro-2535849/. Retrieved 9 January 2019. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  15. ^ a b Perez, Yamaira Muniz (17 December 2019). "Aires campeoniles en los nuevos Mets de Guaynabo". El Vocero. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  16. ^ Loza, Jorge Figueroa (18 December 2019). "Former NBA player and coach Metta World Peace among candidates to lead Guaynabo Mets". Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  17. ^ Loza, Jorge Figueroa (29 December 2019). "Metta World Peace reveals link with the Guaynabo Mets". Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  18. ^ Laird, Lorelei (8 January 2018). "Milberg joins forces with mass tort firm Sanders Philips Grossman". ABA Journal. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  19. ^ https://www.litiquest.com/events/litiquest-nyc-2017
  20. ^ https://litigationconferences.com/tort-med-school-may-9-11-2018-new-york/
  21. ^ https://litigationconferences.com/medclacon17/
  22. ^ LLC., Trial Guides. "Anatomy of a Personal Injury Lawsuit - Fourth Edition". Trial Guides. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  23. ^ Edelman, Susan. "Software engineer claims generic version of Propecia turned him into a woman". New York Post. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  24. ^ Mundy, Jane. "Men Growing Breasts a Propecia Side Effect". Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  25. ^ a b Watts, Jonathan (6 November 2019). "BHP Billiton facing £5 billion lawsuit from Brazilian victims of dam disaster". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  26. ^ Crisp, Wil (5 November 2018). "BHP faces one of the largest lawsuits in British legal history". The Telegraph. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  27. ^ Ridley, Kirstin (22 November 2018). "BHP prepares for UK legal battle over 2015 Brazil dam failure". Reuters. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  28. ^ a b "Marc Grossman, Producer". Playbill. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  29. ^ "Ted Liebowitz credits". International Broadway Database. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
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