• Daou v. BLC Bank SAL

    Publication Date: 2022-08-17
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Gerard Lynch
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs-Appellants: Christopher J. Major, Meister Seelig & Fein LLP, New York, NY.
    for defendant: For Defendants-Appellees BLC Bank, S.A.L. and Credit Libanais, S.A.L.: John O. Wray, on the brief, Jeffrey Rotenberg, DLA Piper LLP, New York, NY. For Defendant-Appellee AlMawarid Bank, S.A.L.: Gassan A. Baloul, Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP, New York, NY, on the brief, Mitchell R. Berger, Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP, Washington, DC. For Defendant-Appellee Banque du Liban: Ryan M. Moore, Dechert LLP, Philadelphia, PA, on the brief, Linda C. Goldstein, Dechert LLP, New York, NY.

    Case Number: 21-1085-cv

    Claims Against Banks Dismissed; Did Not Arise From Transactions in NY

  • Paysys Int'l Inc. v. Atos IT Servs. Ltd.

    Publication Date: 2018-08-24
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Gerard Lynch
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant: Robert D. Owen, Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP, New York, NY, and Anna Carr Halsey, Peter C. Quittmeyer, Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP, Atlanta, GA, on the brief, James H. Neale, Wislett Studnicky McCormick & Bomser LLP, New York, NY
    for defendant: For Defendants-Counter-Claimants-Appellees: Stanley J. Panikowski, DLA Piper LLP (US), San Diego, CA, and Leo Medzhibovsky, Marc E. Miller, DLA Piper LLP (US), New York, NY, on the brief, Ilana Hope Eisenstein, DLA Piper LLP (US), Philadelphia, PA

    Case Number: 17-2204-cv

    Court Erred in Deciding Firm Could Not Reject Fee Condition as 'Too Onerous'