Experience

• • The board of directors of The Weinstein Company in addressing allegations of extreme sexual misconduct by its co-chairman.
  • One of the two leading fantasy sports companies in defending against Attorney General actions seeking to prohibit the fantasy sports contests it sponsors as illegal gambling.
  • A major shopping center company in defending against breach of contract and fiduciary duty claims for over $2 billion arising from its purchase of another shopping center partnership.
  • The Federal Reserve Bank of New York in obtaining dismissal of claims for over $40 billion against the Bank by the largest shareholder of AIG challenging the terms of a rescue loan the Bank provided to AIG during the 2008 financial crisis.
  • The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, the former Chairman of the Federal Reserve and others in a trial of class action claims against the United States arising out of the same rescue loan.
  • An NBA team in the first-ever arbitration of the fair market value of a professional sports team’s media rights.
  • Directors of a failed telecommunications company in obtaining dismissal of a $1.8 billion creditors’ claim against them, and directors of a related company in winning summary judgment rejecting $1.1 billion in fiduciary duty claims against them by bankruptcy administrators.
  • Central European Media Enterprises in its successful investment treaty arbitration against the Czech Republic, which resulted in a $360 million recovery for the client.
  • One of the largest manufacturers of personal computers in defending numerous consumer fraud class actions relating to claimed performance defects.
  • A major publicly traded Midwestern retail chain and its directors, in defeating efforts by dissident shareholders to enjoin a proposed $1.1 billion going private transaction.
  • A cellular phone geolocation company, a maker of food preservation devices and a consortium of lenders to an airport development project in successful litigations and mediations of patent disputes.
  • A leveraged buyout sponsor in defense and settlement of a $1.2 billion action brought against it after the purchased grocery store chain failed.
  • A food services company in an internal investigation of its audit practices following its discovery of an $800 million fraud.
  • The retail leaseholder for the World Trade Center in disputes over the nature of the reconstruction at the Ground Zero site.
  • Independent trustees of a major mutual fund company in defending litigations challenging the fees paid to the funds’ advisor.
  • A leading pharmaceutical company in an internal investigation of alleged securities law violations relating to a significant financially adverse event.