Bankruptcy: Robert Moore, Milbank, Tweed

Expectations were low in October 2008, when Robert Moore first started representing Grupo Mexico in the bankruptcy of its Asarco LLC smelting and refining subsidiary. Buckling under the weight of an $8 billion fraud judgment, $6.5 billion in environmental claims (mostly related to waste dumping), and $2.65 billion in asbestos claims, Asarco had already been languishing in Chapter 11 for three years in two Texas venues.

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