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Once upon a time, Paul Daugerdas generated hundreds of millions of dollars for Jenkens & Gilchrist by blessing dubious tax shelter deals. Then the feds got wind of his role. In 2007 Daugerdas's tax shelter work led to the demise of his onetime firm. Now it's led to his indictment on tax fraud and conspiracy charges.
A report by the Securities and Exchange Commission's Office of Inspector General examines the interactions between Enforcement Division Director Robert Khuzami and Citigroup's lawyer, Mark Pomerantz of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, during the negotiations that led to Citi's $75 million settlement last year. While the OIG cleared Khuzami of wrongdoing, the public version of this report leaves some big questions unanswered.
The former prosecutor was brought in to revive the SEC enforcement division at perhaps the lowest moment in the agency's history. Has he succeeded? Not yet, but he's working on it.
Fields Dreams of Internet Riches
The glow of Internet riches isn't just attracting associates away from law firms. Now it's top partners who are venturing out to become "dot.com" entrepreneurs. On Dec. 2, Richard Fields, a partner at Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman whose insurance coverage group brings the firm as much as $50 million a year, left Swidler to launch a novel Internet start-up company -- a venture he hopes will permit legal claims against insurance companies to be freely traded like stocks and bonds.View more book results for the query "Deutsche Bank"
Deloitte's lawyers at Sidley Austin persuaded a judge in Manhattan that their client was duped like everyone else by alleged fraud at Longtop Financial, the U.S.-listed Chinese software company that collapsed in 2011 under the weight of a massive accounting scandal.
Alitalia, Iberia bids herald new wave of buyers
WHEN OAO AEROFLOT announced a bid for Alitalia SpA last week, it could have been taken as an April Fool's joke that came a day too late, like many of the planes operated by both airlines. It turns out that Russia's largest carrier is serious about joining UniCredit SpA in taking control of the Italian airline that remains one of the biggest in Europe.Two months after opting out of a class action against Pfizer, a group of major public and private institutional investors are taking matters into their own hands. On Thursday the breakaway investors and their lawyers at Bernstein Litowitz filed their own securities fraud suit, accusing Pfizer of duping shareholders about risks associated with two once-blockbuster drugs.
It takes an army of lawyers to rebuild at Ground Zero
REBUILDING WAS THE DEVELOPER'S DREAM-and his right, according to his lawyers from Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen Katz. But after the towers fell, New York city and state authorities seemed to have done everything possible to elbow him out of the way, even as Silverstein ponied up $100 million a year to rent a hole in the ground.Trending Stories
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