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A team at Susman Godfrey secured a $1.6 billion win for client BML Properties in a dispute with China Construction America Inc. over delays at the Baha Mar resort casino in the Bahamas.
October 25, 2024 at 07:25 AM
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First up this week are Jacob Buchdahl and his team at Susman Godfrey. After an 11-day bench trial in August, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Andrew Borrok last week awarded their client BML Properties $1.6 billion in connection with a dispute with China Construction America Inc. over delays at the Baha Mar resort casino in the Bahamas. Borrok found that despite CCA's contractual obligations, the company diverted "resources and manpower to competing projects, concealing those diversions, and even engaging in outright sabotage of the project." The project declared bankruptcy in June 2015, just three months after its failed opening. Borrok awarded BML $845 million in fraud damages—the amount of its entire investment in the development—as well as prejudgment interest going back to May 2014. The trial team included Susman partners Elisha Barron and Tamar Lusztig and associate Stephanie Spies, with co-counsel Mark Zauderer and Jason Cohen of Dorf Nelson & Zauderer.
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