Wiggin and Dana secured a $500 million victory for Kuwaiti ambassador Sadiq Marafi after almost five years of navigating jurisdiction in multiple countries, a plethora of defendants and alleged paternity fraud.

“It was a very complicated case in terms of all of the different places and jurisdictions that it touched, as well as all the parties involved, and where the money ended up,” Jonathan Freiman, lead counsel for the plaintiff, said. “So in terms of jurisdiction, this is a case that involved proceedings in Morocco; it involved proceedings in Mali; it involved proceedings in the Cayman Islands; it involved, ultimately, extended proceedings in Switzerland during the damages phase.”