• Representing one of the largest owners of private schools in the world in several matters totaling more than $1 billion.
• Representing one of the world’s largest inter-dealer brokers in a series of arbitrations and litigations to recoup damages following a competitor’s raid of our client in which the competitor poached 80 brokers, including members of senior management. Recovered over $130 million in those cases on behalf of our client.
• Representing a group of secured creditors in an adversary proceeding against the Chapter 11 debtor’s controlling equity holders.
• Representing multiple labor union pension funds in actions regarding withdrawal rights arising from their investment of more than $100 million in a real estate investment trust.
• Representing the former chief scientist of a major pharmaceutical company in connection with hundreds of related securities fraud, derivative, ERISA, and personal injury actions stemming from the worldwide withdrawal of one of the company’s products.
• Successfully obtained federal jury verdict in favor of a leading prime broker, establishing a “good faith” defense in a $140-million fraudulent transfer case.
• Achieved a favorable settlement for multiple defendants in a Chapter 11 case after presenting a solvency analysis that undermined many of plaintiff’s primary claims.
• Represented one of the world’s largest private equity firms in a contractual obligations suit dismissing various “alter ego” and “piercing the corporate veil” theories of liability.
• Successfully defended a major law firm and two of its partners in a $200-million malpractice action.
• Successfully represented a global private equity firm against claims of fraud and alleged misrepresentations by forcing the court to dismiss the claim from the bench after proving the plaintiff’s failure to state a claim and failure to allege facts sufficient to pierce the corporate veil.
• Represented a Dutch banking institution in a software license rights dispute relating to the sale of its U.S. retail banking business.
• Filed a multi-defendant action in connection with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill seeking a declaratory judgment that the defendants are jointly and severally liable for removal costs and damages caused by the spill.
• Achieved a favorable settlement in a derivative action brought by a disgruntled shareholder alleging that our client and its directors had improperly diluted stock, overcompensated its officers, and engaged in other alleged misconduct.
• Obtained a judgment granting a pre-discovery motion for summary judgment on behalf of our clients, creditors of the debtor in a bankruptcy case, after arguing that a disputed amendment to a credit agreement had been obtained in violation of contractual provisions.

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