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If It Is Broken, We Should Fix It
In her Securities Regulation column, Roberta S. Karmel, Centennial Professor and co-director of the Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law at Brooklyn Law School, writes: It is increasingly apparent that the capital markets and their regulation are both broken. The financial press for July 2012 reads more like a scandal sheet than a newspaper.
Bankruptcy Judge Dismisses Champion's Breach of Contract Claims against Credit Suisse
Publication Date: 2012-08-31 Practice Area: Industry: Court: Judge: Attorneys: For plaintiff: For defendant: Case number:
Unsecured creditors of bankrupt Champion Enterprises Inc. have come up empty in their breach of contract claim against Credit Suisse. On Thursday, a Delaware federal bankruptcy judge found that while Credit Suisse did breach a $187 million credit agreement with Champion, the breach did not damage the manufacturer of prefabricated housing, nor did it cause Champion's bankruptcy.
Banks Win Again in Eleventh Circuit Ruling on Las Vegas Fontainebleau Project
Publication Date: 2013-02-21 Practice Area: Industry: Court: Judge: Attorneys: For plaintiff: For defendant: Case number:
They say you can't beat the house. In litigation sparked by the collapse of the giant Fontainebleau casino project on the Las Vegas strip, neither the project's borrowers or a group of term lenders have been able to beat the banks.
DOJ Heralds 'Robust' UBS Deal; Gibson Dunn on Defense
Publication Date: 2012-12-19 Practice Area: Industry: Court: Judge: Attorneys: For plaintiff: For defendant: Case number:
Top U.S. Justice Department lawyers defended Wednesday's non-prosecution agreement with UBS AG and the guilty plea of a Japanese subsidiary, while class action plaintiffs lawyers called on UBS to compensate plaintiffs in parallel private litigation alleging that the bank manipulated LIBOR.
In Re Wachovia Equity Securities Litigation, 08 Civ. 6171 (RJS)
Publication Date: 2011-04-07 Practice Area: Business Law
Industry: Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District Judge: District Judge Richard J. Sullivan Attorneys: For plaintiff: The Equity Plaintiffs are represented by Ira M. Press, Andrew Martin McNeela, and Roger W. Kirby of Kirby McInerney LLP, New York, NY. The Stichting Plaintiffs are represented by Geoffrey Coyle, Jarvis, Jay W. Eisenhofer, and Michele S. Carino of Grant & Eisenhofer, P.A., New York, NY; and James Richard Banko of Grant & Eisenhofer, P A, Chase Manhattan Centre, Wilmington, DE. The FC Holdings Plaintiffs are represented by Daniel Arthur Cohen, Daniel Joseph Kornstein, and Amy Christine Gross of Kornstein Veisz Wexler & Pollard, LLP, New York, NY; JefIrey H. Squire of Bracewell & Patterson, LLP, Washington, DC; and Paul D. Wexler of Bragar, Wexler & Eagel, P.C., New York, NY. The Bond/Notes Plaintiffs represented by John J. Gross, Christopher L. Nelson, David Kessler, John Anthony Kehoe, and Benjamin J. Sweet of Barrowav Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check, LLP, Radnor, P A; Nichole Browning and Eric Donald Peterson of Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check, LLP, San Francisco, CA; Ramzi Abadou, Maureen Elizabeth Mueller, Lucas F. Olts, and John J. Rice of Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, San Diego, CA; David Avi Rosenfeld of Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, Melville, NY; John Patrick Coffey, William Curtis Fredericks, Kurt Michael Hinciker, Christopher Chad Johnson, John James Rizio-Hamilton, and Jeroen Van Kwawegen of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, New York, NY; Jack Gerald Fruchter of Abraham Fruchter & Twersky LLP, New York, NY; Lionel Z. Glancy of Glancy & Binkow, LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Michael Max Goldberg of the Law Offices of Michael Goldberg, New York, NY; Marc Ian Gross and Fei-Lu Qian of Pomerantz Haudek Block Grossman & Gross LLP, New York, NY. For defendant: The Wachovia Defendants are represented by Douglas H. Flaum, Eric A. Hirsch, Israel David, and John W. Brewer of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, New York, NY. The Underwriter Defendants are represented by Alfred Robert Pietrzak, Patrick Michael McGuirk, Owen Harris Smith, and Saima S. Ahmed of Sidley Austin LLP, New York, NY. Defendant KPMG is represented by Emmet Thomas Flood of Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, DC and Marshall Beil of McGuireWoods LLP, New York, NY. Case number: 08 Civ. 6171 (RJS)
Cite as: In Re Wachovia Equity Securities Litigation, 08 Civ. 6171 (RJS), NYLJ 1202489220302, at *1 (SDNY, Decided March 31, 2011)District Judge Richard J. Sull
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