Jennifer Rackoff

Jennifer is Vice President and General Counsel of Quality Branded. Her practice touches all areas of law affecting the hospitality industry, including managing employee relations, wage and hour matters, drafting and negotiating advertising, public relations and other related agreements, handling real estate issues and lease negotiations, and providing advice with respect to litigation and intellectual property matters.  She is the co-founder of the Hospitality Counsel Networking Group and is a member of the NYC Bar Association Restaurant & Hospitality Committee. Jennifer was previously corporate counsel at The Donna Karan Company, where she primarily focused on licensing, real estate, litigation and employment matters.  Before that, she spent almost ten years at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP specializing in intellectual property transactional work and litigation. Jennifer earned her B.S. degree with honors from Cornell University and her J.D., cum laude, from Fordham University School of Law.