• August 29, 2022 | The Legal Intelligencer

    'We Don't Try to Be All Things to All People': Stradley Ronon Investment Management Leaders Embrace Their Sweet Spot

    The firm has accumulated a client base that now includes some of the largest and most influential investment managers on the planet.

    7 minute read

  • May 17, 2022 | National Law Journal

    SEC Reaches $6B Settlement With Allianz Global

    The case marks the latest white-collar crackdown under the Biden administration that targeted corporate employees, and required an admission of guilt.

    3 minute read

  • Wells Fargo Bank v. Aegon USA Investment Mgmt. LLC

    Publication Date: 2021-08-31
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Appellate Division, First Department
    Judge: Associate Justice Sallie Manzanet-Daniels
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Aegon USA Investment Management, LLC, BlackRock Financial Management, Inc., Cascade Investment, LLC, Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., Federal National Mortgage Association, Goldman Sachs Asset Mgmt L.P., Voya Investment Mgmt LLC, Invesco Advisers, Inc., Kore Advisors, L.P., Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., Pacific Investment Mgmt Company LLC, Teachers Ins. and Annuity Assoc. of America, TCW Group, Inc., Thrivent Financial for Lutherans and Western Asset Mgmt. Co. (the "Institutional Investors"), Appellants: Kenneth E. Warner of counsel, Warner Partners, P.C., New York, and David M. Sheeren of the bar of the State of Texas, admitted pro hac vice of counsel, Gibbs & Bruns LLP, Houston, TX. For American General Life Insurance Company, American Home Assurance Company, Lexington Insurance Company, National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, PA., The United States Life Insurance Company in the City of New York and The Variable Annuity Life Insurance Company (the "AIG Parties"), Appellants: Kevin S. Reed of counsel, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York. For DW Partners LP and Ellington Management Group, L.L.C. (the "DW/Ellington Parties"), Appellants: David I. Greenberger of counsel, Bailey Duquette P.C., New York, and Isaac M. Gradman of the bar of the State of California, admitted pro hac vice of counsel, Perry Johnson Anderson Miller & Moskowitz LLP, Santa Rosa, CA. For Tilden Park Investment Master Fund LP, Tilden Park Management I LLC, and Tilden Park Capital Management LP (the "Tilden Park Parties"), Appellants: Jonathan L. Hochman and Anna Vinogradov of counsel, Schindler Cohen & Hochman LLP, New York, and Philip Bentley and Andrew Pollack of counsel, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, New York.
    for defendant: For Ambac Assurance Corporation, Appellant: Henry J. Ricardo of counsel, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, New York. For Poetic Holdings VI LLC, Poetic Holdings VII LLC, and Prophet Mortgage Opportunities LP (the "Prophet and Poetic Parties"), Appellants: Felix J. Gilman and Donald W. Hawthorne of counsel, Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP, New York. For U.S. Bank N.A., solely in its capacity as NIM Trustee for the Poetic and Prophet Trusts and as NIM Trustee for the HBK Trusts, Appellant: Martin Gilmore and Sean Connery of counsel, Perkins Coie LLP, New York. For U.S. Bank N.A., solely in its capacity as NIM Trustee for the HBK Trusts (the "HBK Parties"), Appellant: Danielle L. Rose, Zachary D. Rosenbaum and Darryl G. Stein of counsel, Kobre & Kim LLP, New York. For Nover Ventures LLC, Respondent: Robert W. Scheef, Gayle R. Klein, David I. Schiefelbein and Steven R. Fisher of counsel, McKool Smith, P.C., New York. For D.E. Shaw Refraction Portfolios, L.L.C. ("D.E. Shaw"), Respondent: Charles R. Jacob III of counsel, Goulston & Storrs PC, New York, and Isaac M. Gradman of the bar of the State of California, Edward P. Allinson, of the bar of the State of California, admitted pro hac vice of counsel and Kristin A. Mattiske-Nicholls, Perry, Johnson, Anderson, Miller & Moskowitz LLP, Santa Rosa, CA. For Strategos Capital Management, LLC, Respondent: Mauricio A. España of counsel, Dechert LLP, New York. For Olifant Fund, Ltd., FFI Fund Ltd. and FYI Ltd. (the "Olifant Funds"), Respondents: Diana M. Conner and Peter W. Tomlinson of counsel, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, New York. For GMO Opportunistic Fund and GMO Global Real Return (the "GMO Parties"), Respondents: Joshua S. Sturm and Marie Killmond of counsel, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, New York. For Amicus Curiae: Maya D. Cater of counsel, Kleinberg, Kaplan, Wolff & Cohen, P.C., New York.

    Case Number: 657387/17

    Court Determines the Distribution of Global Settlement Payment by JPMorgan to Investors

  • June 21, 2021 | The Recorder

    Judge Sanctions 3M's Los Angeles Attorneys in Earplug Trial for 'Willful Disregard' of Court Orders

    U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers imposed a $10,000 sanction on one attorney and $2,000 sanction against another defense lawyer. "Today these proceedings and the integrity of the court were degraded, they were disrespected by the willful violation of my orders by 3M's counsel," the judge said June 18, hours before a jury issued a $1.7 million verdict, according to a transcript.

    6 minute read

  • February 16, 2021 | The Recorder

    Hedge Funds and Robinhood Turn to Kirkland, Quinn Emanuel and Other Top Firms for GameStop Hearing

    Lawyers from Dechert, Akin Gump, Zuckerman Spaeder, Debevoise, Kirkland and Quinn are among the firms counseling parties ahead of the U.S. House hearing this week in the GameStop matter.

    1 minute read

  • February 16, 2021 | National Law Journal

    Hedge Funds and Robinhood Turn to Kirkland, Quinn Emanuel and Other Top Firms for GameStop Hearing

    Lawyers from Dechert, Akin Gump, Zuckerman Spaeder, Debevoise, Kirkland and Quinn are among the firms counseling parties ahead of the U.S. House hearing this week in the GameStop matter.

    1 minute read

  • Levy v. BASF Metals Ltd.

    Publication Date: 2019-03-06
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Plaintiff‐Appellant: Susan Levy, pro se, New York, N.Y.
    for defendant: For Defendants‐Appellees BASF Metals Limited and BASF Corporation: Peter A. Farrell, on the brief, Michael F. Williams, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Washington, D.C.; For Defendant‐Appellee HSBC Bank USA, N.A.: Leigh M. Nathanson, Laura C. Harris, on the brief, Damien J. Marshall, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, New York, N.Y. For Defendants‐Appellees Goldman Sachs International, the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC f/k/a Goldman, Sachs & Co.: Stephen Ehrenberg, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, N.Y. For Defendant‐Appellee ICBC Standard Bank PLC.: Robert G. Houck, Clifford Chance US LLP, New York, N.Y. For Defendants‐Appellees UBS AG and UBS Securities LLC: Mark A. Kirsch, D. Jarrett Arp, Melanie L. Katsur, Indraneel Sur, on the brief, Eric J. Stock, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York, N.Y. For Defendant‐Appellee The London Platinum and Palladium Fixing Company Ltd: Morgan J. Feder, on the brief, Ethan E. Litwin, Dechert LLP, New York, N.Y.

    Case Number: 17-3823

    Limitation Period on Commodity Exchange Act Claims Accruing in 2008 Expired in 2010

  • August 7, 2018 | National Law Journal

    Proskauer Lands Corporate Partner From Dechert

    Corporate and capital markets partner William Tuttle traded one out-of-town firm for another in Washington.

    1 minute read

  • September 12, 2017 | The American Lawyer

    Why Are So Many Partners Leaving Ropes & Gray?

    Firm leadership defends its strategy, particularly in London, and says they aren't worried about the future.

    1 minute read

  • Hampton v. Pacific Investment Management Company LLC

    Publication Date: 2017-08-28
    Practice Area: Securities Litigation | Class Actions
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Date Filed: 2017-08-24
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Cormac J. Carney, District Judge, Presiding Before: Sidney R. Thomas, Chief Judge, Stephen Reinhardt, Circuit Judge, and Edward R. Korman,* District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nicholas I. Porritt (argued) and Adam M. Apton, Levi & Korsinsky LLP, Washington, D.C.; Jeff S. Westerman, Westerman Law Corp., Los Angeles, California; for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    for defendant: Matthew L. Larrabee (argued) and Joshua D.N. Hess, Dechert LLP, San Francisco, California; David A. Kotler, Dechert LLP, Princeton, New Jersey; Frank D. Rorie Jr., Law Office of Frank D. Rorie Jr., West Hollywood, California; John D. Donovan, Robert A. Skinner, and Amy D. Roy, Ropes & Gray LLP, Boston, Massachusetts; John C. Ertman, New York, New York; Ronald Rus and Randall A. Smith, Brown Rudnick LLP, Irvine, California; for Defendants-Appellees.

    Case Number: No. 15-56841

    Class action claims barred under Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act must be dismissed without prejudice (Korman, J.)