Elite US litigation firm Boies Schiller is representing former AIG chief executive Hank Greenberg as he prepares to sue the US government over the terms of the insurer’s financial crisis bailout.

Acting for Greenberg (pictured), Boies Schiller chariman David Boies is set to argue that through coercion the US government was able to impose harsh terms on AIG, and that other firms that received assistance during the crisis received more preferential treatment.