Our runners up for Litigator of the Week include Sullivan & Cromwell’s Robert Giuffra Jr., Sharon Nelles and William Monahan for their win on behalf of Volkswagen in opt-out litigation arising from the “defeat device” emissions controversy. After an 11-day trial, a jury in San Francisco federal court awarded the plaintiffs a paltry $5,747 in compensatory damages. In the subsequent punitive damages phase, the plaintiffs asked for $582 million and got $100,000.
At Sidley Austin, Jennifer Haworth McCandless and Marinn Carlson won a significant victory for the Republic of Peru in an investment treaty arbitration. The country was sued by Spanish investor Lidercón S.L., which held a concession to provide motor vehicle inspection services in the capital of Lima. The ICSID tribunal dismissed all of the investor’s claims (which the investor had valued at more than $120 million) and awarded $4 million in costs to Peru.
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