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...Citigroup’s co-head of industrials Niraj Shah is leaving to join PJT Partners, Bloomberg reports....
...Unlike a class action, in which multiple plaintiffs join a single lawsuit, each plaintiff in a mass tort is treated as an individual....
...The plaintiffs’ co-counsel Kelly Dermody said the settlement “will be precedent-setting for the industry”....
...Wisner was co-lead counsel in 2019 lawsuits against Bayer and its new owner Monsanto over claims the Roundup weedkiller had caused cancer....
...He joins from his most recent role as interim chief data officer for the US Treasury....
...Dan Frumkin, who joined Metro as chief transformation officer earlier this year, will take over as interim chief....
...The French group appointed an interim leadership team....
...Get in touch with us: Due.Diligence@FT.com The disbarred pioneer of class-action lawsuits is back Bill Lerach, the high-profile US class-action attorney who spent nearly two years in prison for secretly...
...Most recently, as co-lead counsel for In re Foreign Exchange Benchmark Rates antitrust litigation, Mr Hausfeld negotiated historic settlements, amounting to more than $2bn, with nine banks....
...Mark Dowie will act as the interim CEO and we will confirm a permanent CEO in due course....
...The law firms Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein and Outten & Golden serve as co-lead counsel for the plaintiffs....
...The two co-chairmen of the plaintiff’s steering committee, selected to run their side of the case, are Jim Roy, a seasoned campaigner in maritime personal injury cases, and Herman, the scion of one of New...
...Andreas Tilp, lead counsel for the court’s model claimant, said this showed that talk of “blackmailing” companies in Germany was overdone....
...Philip Beck, Merck’s lead outside counsel, said the only certainties would be a long fight and that the Vioxx litigation could be unlike any other because heart attacks are common, and it is not possible...
...Milberg was quick to issue a press release after Judge Lowe appointed the firm co-lead counsel in a case involving Comverse Technology....
...William Lerach, of Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP, lead counsel for the university in the litigation, said "We're going to insist that any bank that settles after this pay more."...
...Stuart Grant, a co-lead counsel for the class,the class action, said the significance was that the international umbrella organisations were now stuck fast in the case, which keptkeeping open the prospect...
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