Attorney of the Year Finalist: Robert Giuffra
Giuffra frequently handles high profile white-collar defense, product liability and employment litigation matters. He also helps to secure legal services funding for low-income New Yorkers.
October 21, 2019 at 11:02 AM
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Litigation may have cooled off since the financial crisis, but someone forgot to tell Robert Giuffra.
Over the past year, the Sullivan & Cromwell partner has represented Goldman Sachs in class actions that accuse it of discriminating against women and lying to investors about conflicts of interest, represented a witness in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, worked for Boeing's directors in suits over its grounded 737 MAX aircraft, helped Fiat Chrysler Automobiles ink settlements worth about $800 million over diesel vehicles, and went to bat for UBS in a case that tests the limits of the finance industry law known as FIRREA.
On top of all that, he's continued to represent Volkswagen in its global response to the so-called Dieselgate scandal. While the company agreed early on to spend billions of dollars buying back affected vehicles, the Securities and Exchange Commission took until this year to sue over the scandal, and Giuffra has continued his regular travels to Germany to liaise with the automaker.
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