Yenisey Rodriguez-McCloskey the founding partner of Rodriguez-McCloskey PLLC is a practicing attorney with more than twenty years of experience. Her practice represents U.S. and international clients in both federal and state courts.
Ms. Rodriguez-McCloskey represents both plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of business litigation and arbitration disputes involving a wide range of civil matters. Practice areas have spanned across multiple industries in cases involving breach of contract, construction, employment, fraud, fiduciary, real property, trusts and estates, and class action litigation. Additionally, she has become a trusted counselor who regularly advises companies with respect to on-the-job issues and pre-litigation resolution.
Ms. Rodriguez-McCloskey has provided counsel in many significant matters some of which include:
- Recently won over a million-dollar in a defense verdict after a 9-day construction industry arbitration based on COVID-related delays.
- Notably acted as a Judgment Creditor’s lead counsel in multi jurisdiction action pending in Bankruptcy Court, State and Federal courts. Successfully lead action to collect on a ten-year-old multimillion dollar judgment; defeated challenges by new purchasers of properties to invalidate the debt and take free and clear.
- Defeated bank foreclosure action by identifying inconsistencies intestimony concerning lost note and chain of custody at evidentiary hearing.
- Overcame on motion to dismiss a Fair Labor Standard Act and wage law class action claims brought against construction company defendant and its principals.
- Awarded summary judgment in favor of corporate client and its principal in multi-jurisdiction debt collection actions, which resulted in large scale multi-million-dollar settlement.
- Settled eleven-year-old mortgage foreclosure action between bank and judgment creditors; exposed inconsistencies in the record and created risk for the bank resulting in a favorable collaboration towards resolution.
- Adjudicated an eighteen-year-old dispute between two former business partners of the largest HUD development in New York City. Effectively brought in disgruntled tenants of the HUD development to create an atmosphere of additional risk for both former partners resulting in a softening of their positions and resolution.
- Represent portfolio of construction industry companies and bonding entities in disputes in New York State.
- Lead counsel in effective multimillion-dollar commercial bank foreclosure action. Additionally, provided valuable counsel at trial when ambiguity in loan documents and note were uncovered.
- Lead litigator in adversary proceeding pending before Bankruptcy Court in In Re Coudert Brothers. Represented 24 retired law partners against the debtor/employer; negotiated as part of bankruptcy plan confirmation settlement of claims for contribution of debtor/employer for 60% less than amount awarded.
- Valuable part of litigation team for complex multi-district $176 million-dollar real estate Ponzi scheme cases brought against numerous banks and individuals.
- Resolved multi-million-dollar anti-trust action brought against a corporate client by powerful Fortune 500 competitor. Mitigated potential loss of business in favor of future joint business venture by two competitors.
- Won summary judgment in action on behalf of representatives of condominium against telecommunications providers which blocked condo board approved contract to allow for construction of cell towers on building. This ruling made new law in the mobile telecommunications industry and established motion papers which are employed as forms throughout the country in like disputes.
- Achieved reversal of judgment on appeal based on court’s preclusion of relevant expert testimony following one-month jury trial for negligent construction.
Ms. Rodriguez-McCloskey a member in good standing of the New York State Bar is fully bilingual in both English and Spanish. She is an honors summa cum laude graduate of Northeastern University located in Boston, Massachusetts where she graduated in two years and received a Bachelor of Science in Political Science.
Following her success as an undergraduate Ms. Rodriguez-McCloskey attended New York Law School where she received her Juris Doctorate Degree. Yeni, as she is affectionately known, was born in Havana, Cuba and grew up in Miami, Florida. Together with her family she has called New York City home since 1997.
