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In December 2024, the Fifth Circuit issued a significant opinion, striking down an “uptiering” debt transaction between Serta Simmons Bedding, LLC and a group of its lenders and reversing a prior decision by a Houston bankruptcy court.
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Ilan Guedj was retained to provide testimony for the plaintiffs in matters brought on behalf of the state of Illinois and the state of New York. At issue in the cases were allegations of widespread fraud and collusion by several financial ...
The Petters scheme, widely acknowledged as being one of the largest Ponzi schemes of all time, was undertaken through Amicus Trading, later renamed The Petters Company, Inc. (PCI), run by Thomas J. Petters. After Petters was tried and convicted ...
UBS AG and several of its US-based affiliates agreed to pay more than $1.4 billion in penalties to settle a civil action alleging misconduct related to UBS’s underwriting and issuance of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) issued ...
Crowell & Moring retained Christopher Bennett and Leslie Marx on behalf of the National Association of Broadcasters in Distribution of Cable Royalty Funds for 2014–2017. At issue in the case are nearly $1 billion in royalties collected from ...
In 2022, the state of Washington filed a lawsuit against Google, Washington Attorney General v. Google LLC, asserting that Google uses a number of deceptive and unfair practices to obtain users’ “consent” to be tracked. Google earns ...
Karl Snow was retained to provide expert testimony on behalf of Ambac Assurance Corporation (Ambac) in a series of three lawsuits filed against Bank of America and affiliated entities (including Countrywide, which Bank of America acquired in ...
In United States of America ex rel. Gwen Thrower, Plaintiff, v. Academy Mortgage Corp., Christopher Bennett was retained as a testifying expert on behalf of the whistleblower who alleged that Academy violated the False Claims Act by improperly ...
Ilan Guedj was retained on behalf of the class of over-the-counter claimants in In re LIBOR-Based Financial Instruments Antitrust Litigation. Dr. Guedj validated and estimated initial allocations for the over-the-counter class’s ...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) retained Marti P. Murray in an investment adviser matter. The SEC accused investment advisory firm Ambassador Advisors and its principals of breaching fiduciary duties in connection with ...
Ilan Guedj was retained as the expert for three state attorneys general in litigation against Navient Corp. Numerous state attorneys general alleged that Navient, a student loan servicer, steered borrowers to forbearances (postponing ...
A New York state judge awarded our client MBIA $604 million in damages associated with Credit Suisse’s breach of contract in the HEMT 2007-2 residential mortgage-backed security transaction; the parties settled for $600 million to avoid any ...