Cross-Border Litigation

Fact Sheet

Experience

    • The Rigmora Limited Partners, as anchor investors of a multibillion private equity fund, as trial counsel in a 2025 bench trial in the Delaware Court of Chancery, arising from a dispute with the fund’s general partner, ATP GP III, Ltd., over the parties’ respective rights and obligations with respect to governance and capital commitments under the LPA and Cayman law. In its post-trial decision, the Court largely rejected the GP’s claims, including its attempt to seize control of the fund’s investments and strip the LPs of their voting and economic, and confirmed the contractual limit to the LPs’ capital commitments.
    • The Rigmora Limited Partners, as anchor investors of a multibillion private equity fund, in multijurisdictional disputes with the general partner of ATP Life Science Ventures, LP, a multi-billion dollar life-sciences investment fund, arising from the GP’s management of the fund and of the LP’s investments, including as trial counsel in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
    • YPF S.A. in successfully defeating claims for roughly $15 billion in damages and pre-judgment interest that were brought by Petersen Energía and Eton Park (both funded by Burford Capital) in the S.D.N.Y. arising from the Republic of Argentina’s intervention in YPF and subsequent expropriation of 51% of YPF’s capital stock.
    • Neoma Private Equity Fund IV in its successful defence of a $300 million claim brought by Abdulhameed Jafar. The claims involved an 8-week Trial in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.
    • A large multinational company and its former Nigerian subsidiary in a major class action brought on behalf of large claimant class in connection with environmental damage in the Niger Delta.
    • A Caribbean bank in the successful and voluntary dismissal of an action in U.S. federal court asserting RICO and state law claims following the motion to dismiss.
    • Jacobs Solutions Inc. in defense of a lawsuit alleging violations of the TVPRA in the District of Colorado in connection with the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
    • Subsidiaries of a global construction company in litigation in New York state court arising from a multi-billion-dollar construction project, which culminated in a two-week trial.
    • Tether, Bitfinex and related entities in a putative class action asserting Commodities Exchange Act, antitrust and fraud claims based on alleged manipulation of the price of cryptocommodities.
    • Tether and Bitfinex in the successful dismissal of a class action related to alleged misrepresentations regarding the sufficiency of reserves for Tether tokens.
    • One of the largest asset management firms in the PRC in a $1.6 billion private equity dispute which involved multiple court and arbitration proceedings, including two ICC arbitrations seated in Hong Kong, and one HKIAC arbitration seated in Hong Kong.
    • Perenco Ecuador in the successful enforcement of an ICSID award against Ecuador in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
    • Various funds sued in “clawback” lawsuits following the collapse of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities.
    • AIA Group as a defendant in the “flip clause” litigation brought by Lehman Brothers Special Financing in the Lehman bankruptcy cases.
    • Notz, Stucki et Cie, its directors and related entities in litigation related to substantial investments with Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, in obtaining dismissal of investor class-action litigation purporting to assert claims for fraud and breach of common law duties relating to one of the firm's managed funds, and in adversary proceedings brought by the Trustee of the BLMIS estate in the bankruptcy proceeding.
    • AIG and its subsidiary, AIG Financial Products, in claims asserted in English courts and Connecticut courts arising from a deferred compensation plan.
    • The World Health Organization (WHO) in successfully asserting its privileges and immunities in connection with a putative class action filed against it in U.S. court, alleging claims based on WHO’s response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
    • EM Limited in obtaining payment in full of an $849 million judgment against the Republic of Argentina arising from Argentina’s default on its sovereign debt, recognized as the 2016 Global Dispute of the Year by The American Lawyer.
    • The United Nations in successfully asserting its rights under the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations and corresponding U.S. law to obtain dismissal of a suit against it in federal district court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
    • A sovereign wealth fund concerning their investment in a major pharmaceutical company facing mass tort litigation in the United States.