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...Jackson Walker has served as a bankruptcy counsel in at least 50 large Houston cases since 2018....
...Cavinder Bull SC of Drew & Napier acted as lead counsel for Ivanishvili....
...The document names “Dr. Dario Item” of Lugano, Switzerland, as a representative for Medea....
...If your brain still hurts, let’s try a tl;dr: a biscuit is a biscuit, as long as it’s a biscuit....
...The NJAG settlement is an important early victory for Markus Diethelm, who was made the bank’s general counsel in the summer....
...The Ivanishvili case is also an early challenge for Credit Suisse’s recently installed general counsel Markus Diethelm....
...Credit Suisse last week revealed it had set aside a further SFr600mn for litigation provisions in the first quarter, taking the total to SFr703mn for what it described as developments in legal matters that...
...General counsel Romeo Cerutti will be replaced in July by Markus Diethelm, who held a similar role at UBS....
...It was Dr. Ben Carson. But Trump was within 1 point, not having a challenger who was double digits ahead of him. So I think that’s really important for people....
...But in exchange for taking on a bank wracked with litigation issues and billions of toxic assets, UBS was determined to extract the best deal that it could....
...If RWE loses the case, “they’d have to pay this very small, symbolic amount of money” towards the cost of defending Huaraz, says Noah Walker-Crawford, an external consultant on climate litigation for Germanwatch...
...“There is a huge amount of litigation running through the English courts at the moment and that isn’t going away. If anything, it’s getting stronger and stronger.”...
...He has since restarted litigation....
...Citigroup has hired the former US Treasury official Brent McIntosh as its new general counsel and corporate secretary, per Reuters....
...He was previously a special counsel at Milbank....
...Go deeper with the FT’s Stephen Morris and Owen Walker here....
...Mr Frazier eventually became Merck’s overall general counsel in 1999 and was the architect of a hard-nosed strategy in which the drugmaker defended itself against a wave of litigation related to Vioxx, an...
...Rather than relying on external counsel, she created in-house litigation capacity....
...The DRS was created in response to last year’s Walker Report on SME banking disputes, which recommended that the banks revisit and settle legacy cases....
...A spokesperson adds that it must “responsibly address litigation . . ....
...In the age of online streaming, disputes over intellectual property in the music industry have become ripe for litigation....
...“The historical trend in litigation rates relative to patents granted clearly does not support claims that litigation in the past decades has ‘exploded’ above the long-term norm,” wrote Bowdoin College professor...
...With Wolf’s counsel, during the 1970s and 1980s, I helped develop a road map for the International Polaroid Collection....
...Their boss, Richard Walker, the bank’s longtime general counsel (he left the bank this year) was once head of enforcement at the SEC. This goes beyond the typical revolving door story....
...KENT WALKERSenior vice-president and general counsel Google Describing his role as “adviser and advocate”, Kent Walker believes that “one key to being a good general counsel is making sure that you’re deeply...
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