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Boies Schiller Flexner LLP announced today that Dan Boyle has joined the firm as a partner in its Los Angeles office, marking his return to private practice after spending over five years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Central District of...

Boies Schiller Flexner LLP today announced that Renee Zaytsev, a trial lawyer who has handled complex corporate and commercial disputes throughout the United States, has joined the firm as a partner in the New York office. Renee brings deep...

Boies Schiller Flexner partner Michael Jacobs held a fireside chat with Algbra General Counsel Omar Salem as part of the Legal Business Financial Regulatory and Disputes Summit. Their discussion focused on transforming culture in financial services...

BSF partner Michael Jacobs wrote an article in The Banker discussing how the recent rise in interest rates can increase the risk of litigation. Michael notes that economic pressures can prompt additional scrutiny of financing documents and trigger...

In a much-awaited ruling, the U.K. Supreme Court held that the so-called Quincecare duty does not extend to banks in authorized push payment fraud situations. BSF attorneys David Hunt, Michael Jacobs, and Sagar Gupta consider the...

Boies Schiller Flexner's London office rose to Band 3 in the competitive Banking Litigation category and to Band 5 in Litigation in the latest edition of the Chambers UK rankings. The firm also maintained its Band 5 ranking in International...

Boies Schiller Flexner's London office was recognized by Legal 500 UK for Commercial Litigation: Premium, Banking Litigation: Investment & Retail, International Arbitration, and Regulatory Investigations and Corporate Crime. In Commercial...

The U.K.'s data protection regulator — the Information Commissioner's Office — fined American Express Services Europe Ltd. £90,000 ($124,300) in May for sending more than 4 million unsolicited direct marketing emails to customers...

Whilst few could have foreseen the global turmoil that 2020 brought, it is clear that in 2021 the fallout from the pandemic and facing the reality of a post-Brexit landscape will continue to be front and center for financial services firms and the...

The following Boies Schiller Flexner lawyers were named to the Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America 2021. Natasha HarrisonHarlan LevySigrid McCawleyMatthew SchwartzStuart SingerAlan Vickery Boies Schiller Flexner founders David Boies and Jonathan...

Boies Schiller Flexner's London office rose to Tier 4 in the competitive Commercial Litigation: Premium category in Legal 500 UK, a rise in ranking for the third year in a row. The firm also maintained its Tier 2 ranking in Banking Litigation:...

The Paycheck Protection Program, a component of the CARES Act intended to provide forgivable loans to small businesses as an incentive to keep workers on the payroll, exhausted its initial $349 billion appropriation on April 16, 2020. Congress...

The administration will soon announce plans to release Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from government conservatorship, and potentially recapitalize them with private investment. Those who care about property rights should look closely at...

Boies Schiller Flexner's London office won higher rankings in the latest editions of both Chambers UK and Legal 500 UK, in recognition of its status as a growing force in London. In Banking Litigation, Chambers reports Boies Schiller Flexner has a...

In Golden Belt 1 Sukuk Co BSC(c) v. BNP Paribas, the English High Court, for the first time, imposed a duty of care from a bank that acted as an arranger to a publicly listed capital market issue to secondary purchasers of debt. This legal analysis...

Boies, Schiller & Flexner was named a Litigation Powerhouse by Law360.

Three Boies, Schiller & Flexner partners were recognized in the global “Who’s Who Legal: Litigation 2015,” a listing of the 740 top litigators in the world. Chairman David Boies is considered by many as “one of...

Cementing a victory for Barclays PLC and its lawyers at Boies, Schiller & Flexner, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for Barclays to keep some $4 billion in a long-running asset dispute stemming from the bank’s frenzied 2008...

On July 10, 2013, BSF filed a class action complaint against the United States under the Takings Clause of the U.S. Constitution for appropriating all of the economic rights of the junior preferred stockholders in Fannie Mae and Freddie...

In a landmark civil rights ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has found in favor of BSF and co-counsel at Gibson Dunn that backers of Proposition 8, the ban against same-sex marriage in California, lacked standing to appeal the district court's finding...

In a turn-around seldom seen in civil jury cases, BSF has won the right to a retrial of a fraud claim for its client Terra Firma against Citigroup over the leveraged buyout of EMI.  The Second Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the verdict in the case...

The Honorable Eugene Nardelli has joined Boies, Schiller & Flexner as Counsel in the New York City office.   Until his retirement from the bench in 2011, Justice Nardelli served for eighteen years as a Justice of the Appellate Division,...

Boies, Schiller & Flexner has been named one of the most feared litigation firms via research from BTI Consulting Group. The group surveyed over 240 General Counsel and in-house Litigation Heads at companies with $1 Billion or more in revenue,...

Boies, Schiller & Flexner, working as co- lead counsel, has reached a proposed settlement for $50 to $80 million for a class of investors in Fairfield Greenwich Group, the largest Madoff “feeder fund.” The settlement, filed November 6, 2012 in New...

An appellate court has tossed out $284 million in claims for contract damages against Boies, Schiller & Flexner client John Ferolito, one of the founders and owners of the multi-billion dollar AriZona Iced Tea company.  The decision knocks...

A team of lawyers led by BSF partners Robin A. Henry and Motty Shulman have secured another significant victory in their continuing representation of BNP Paribas in its suit against Bank of America. BNP Paribas has alleged that Bank of...

The American Lawyer named Boies, Schiller & Flexner one of five finalists in the publication’s sixth biennial Litigation Department of the Year contest from a field of over 70 firms who competed. Firms were chosen based on litigation...

On behalf of Starr International Inc., BSF filed a $25 billion class action and derivative lawsuit on November 22, 2011, in the United States Court of Federal Claims against the U.S. government. The lawsuit asserts unlawful taking of nearly 80% of...

Following a four-day trial, the Delaware Chancery Court issued a 101-page opinion in favor of BSF client Lerner Master Fund in a lawsuit against hedge fund manager Paige Capital Management, which had invoked contractual hedge fund gates to block...

The legal and policy landscape leading up to and arising from the global credit crisis, including litigation against financial institutions, continues to be examined by leading media as part of the larger business story about the crisis and its far...

BSF client, Courtroom View Network, and Partner, Jonathan Sherman continue their successful advocacy to allowing video cameras in federal courtrooms.  Recently, the Ninth Circuit Judicial Council, which oversees all trial courts in California and...

David Boies and his team at BSF successfully defended Starr International Company (Starr) in a trial of claims brought by AIG seeking more than $4 billion of Starr's assets.  After a three-week trial, a federal jury returned a unanimous verdict...

BSF won a major victory when New York Supreme Court Justice Bernard Fried granted in its entirety the Firm's motion to dismiss all claims filed against BSF's clients, including James and Hunter Biden, the Vice President’s brother and son, respectively, for alleged breach of contract, conversion and fraud arising from a failed acquisition of portions of a hedge fund. 

BSF Partners George Carpinello and Michael Underhill have moved to intervene in a copyright lawsuit on behalf of Mannie Garcia, acknowledged to be the photographer behind the iconic “Obama Hope” image.  Asserting copyright...

BSF recently won a complete defense victory in the trial of a nationwide class action brought against American Express in California Superior Court.  The Court agreed with the Firm that American Express' agreement with cardmembers...

Miami's Daily Business Review named BSF Partners Stuart Singer and Damien Marshall "Most Effective Lawyers 2008" in the area of Bankruptcy in December 2008 for their achievements in defending the former directors, officers and...

BSF won on appeal for their client, Fresh Del Monte, a fruit company that was sued by Mexican investors who claimed the 1996 sale of the company was induced by a bribe payment.   What turned out to be an emotional three-week jury trial won by Fresh...

BSF attorneys were called on quickly by Wachovia in the midst of the financial crisis to navigate state and federal litigation arising from Wachovia's rejection of merger with Citibank in favor of preferred merger with Wells Fargo. Please...

Steven W. Davis (Complex Commercial Litigation), Mark J. Heise (Complex Commercial Litigation), Stuart H. Singer (Complex Commercial Litigation), Carlos M. Sires (Commercial Litigation) joined a distinguished list of Florida attorneys to be selected as Top Lawyers in the South Florida Legal Guide. The Legal Guide also selected Paul Kunz as a "Top Up & Comer." The selection process for attorneys, according to South Florida Legal Guide, is based on reviews by their peers.

The article, which appears as a cover story in Fortune magazine, profiles Hank Greenberg, former longtime Chairman and Chief Executive of American International Group (AIG). The detailed feature story, written by Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, James Bandler, examines Greenberg's efforts to save AIG, which he built into the world's largest insurer.  The story also chronicles Greenberg's legal challenges and his quest for vindication.  BSF Managing Partner, David Boies, and Partner, Nicholas Gravante, Jr., appear in the story. Please click onto the link below for the online version. http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/26/magazines/fortune/bandler_greenberg.fortune/index.htm  

BSF partner Robin Henry was recently quoted in a New York Law Journal article that reported on the effects of the "subprime crisis" on the number of class actions filed in 2008.  The article highlighted a spike in the volume of cases and focused on the connection to the financial industry.  "'You are not just seeing a lot of cases, but a lot of cases filed against a small number of financial institutions,'" Ms. Henry told the Law Journal. "This period of securities litigation is unlike earlier periods because although total filings are high, the lawsuits are concentrated in terms of defendants." The full article is available in the August 7, 2008 edition of the The New York Law Journal. http://www.law.com/jsp/nylj/PubArticleNY.jsp?hubtype=corporateUpdate&id=1202423582777

D.C. partner, Jonathan Sherman, was quoted in the July 14, 2008, issue of the Legal Times of Washington, in an article regarding the changing dynamic between major law firms and the financial industry.  Elite firms, the article reports, historically have stayed away from representing plaintiffs against financial institutions.  The recent crisis in the credit markets, however, has begun to change that state of affairs.  BSF, Mr. Sherman contends, is placed perfectly -- with its defense-side expertise and plaintiffs'-side experience, to  reap the benefits by representing private equity and hedge funds, and even banks themselves, as they seek to recover their losses. .

As reported in the South Florida Business Journal on July 11, 2008, Boies, Schiller & Flexner obtained a final judgment dismissing all damages claims filed by a court-appointed bankruptcy trustee who was seeking $150 million from the former directors, officers and investors in Far & Wide Corporation.

CNET.com reports that BSF's client ConnectU has found new evidence against Facebook, an online community website. According to CNET.com, the lawsuit stems from 2004 and accuses Facebook of pilfering ConnectU's "business plan and...

The Lawyer reports that Boies, Schiller & Flexner is resisting the trend to open offices in London because it has, and has long had, major international reach, having "pulled in some heavyweight cases recently."  "Much of that...

Genesco v. Finish Line et al. Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP and its client Genesco are listed in The American Lawyer's "Big Suits" column published March 2008.  Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle of the Tennessee Chancery Court granted a...

The Times reports that a New York State appellate court, in a crucial decision, accepted the arguments of BSF in a case involving access to internal documents relating to the accounting dispute arising out of American International Group.  Nicholas...

Reporting on First Department reversal of decision denying BSF client Maurice ("Hank") Greenberg access to documents claimed privileged by AIG created when Greenberg was Chairman and CEO of the company.  The article quotes BSF partner Nick...

The Daily Business Review, the paper of record for the South Florida legal and business communities, reports that a team of Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP attorneys is suing the state of Florida, in landmark pro bono litigation, on behalf of 1.6...

Boies, Schiller & Flexner has filed a brief amicus curiae in the United States Supreme Court on behalf of two senior Members of Congress, Representatives Chaka Fattah (D-PA), and John Conyers, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, joined by...

The NY Times reports that BSF's victory in the Tennessee trial of Genesco, Finish Line and UBS arising out of a failed attempt by the latter two to repurdiate a merger.  Columnist Floyd Norris singles out the Court's findings that the key...

The Journal reports BSF's win in Tennessee Chancery Court.  On December 27, 2007, Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle ordered Finish Line and UBS to proceed with a $1.5 billion merger they had sought to repudiate in light of the credit crisis.  The...

The Wall Street Journal reports on closing arguments held in the Nashville trial of Finish Line and UBS. The action, brought by Genesco, seeks to enforce a sale agreement repudiated by the purchaser as a result of the liquidity crisis and other...

Reporting on the closing argument of BSF's Jim Denvir in the "three way battle between Genesco, Finish Line and UBS." "To hear him tell it, this case was in large part born of UBS’s desire to avoid losses at all costs. In the...

As reported in the Albany Times Union and around New York State, BSF Albany Administrative Partner, George Carpinello, has again been nominated for a seat on the New York Court of Appeals.  The Court is New York's highest court. George was among...

Reporting that litigation between Genzyme Corporation and former shareholders involving use of "tracking stock" has settled. Genzyme will pay the plaintiff class $64 million in cash subject to approval by the Court. BSF acted as lead counsel to the...

Maurice R. "Hank" Greenberg today sued current and former directors and management of American International Group ("AIG"), seeking to hold them liable for unnecessary and improper decisions to restate the company's earnings and pay a $1.6 billion...

Bloomberg reported that BSF has been retained as co-lead counsel in Overstock.com's lawsuit against Rocker Partners and others.  In the case, Overstock.com alleges that statements and analysis about Overstock's business by Rocker Partners...

The Wall Street Journal reports on litigation, brought originally by shareholders of AIG and now taken over by the company itself, against former Chairman and BSF client Maurice R. "Hank" Greenberg. "David Boies, attorney for Mr....

WASHINGTON - June 6, 2007 - Scott Gant, a Boies, Schiller & Flexner partner in the firm's Washington, D.C., office, is the author of a new book, We're All Journalists Now: The Transformation of the Press and Reshaping of the Law in the Internet...

David Shapiro, Administrative Partner of BSF's California office, was featured in the June issue of California Lawyer magazine. In the wake of the firing of U.S. Attorneys by the Bush Administration, the magazine sought out Mr. Shapiro, the...

Reporting that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed two verdicts obtained involving insurance coverage for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

In a case that captured national media attention, a jury in Miami-Dade County on November 17, 2006 took just three hours to find Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc.’s Chief Executive Officer, Mohammed Abu Ghazeleh, and an investor group he represented not...

After a four-year legal battle surrounding the 1996 sale of the multinational corporation, BSF partner Carlos M. Sires obtained a favorable jury verdict against the allegations of Mexican Investors against Fresh Del Monte Produce and company...

Federal District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald of the Southern District of New York late yesterday dismissed a lawsuit seeking to stop construction of the new stadium that the New York Yankees are building in the Bronx. In her 57-page opinion, Judge...

Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP, and the United States Government have announced a $155 million settlement of a False Claims Act case against Medco Health Solutions, Inc. ("Medco") of Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. Medco is the second largest...

Announcing settlement in litigation in which BSF worked with the ACLU Womens' Rights Project in representing Latina housekeepers at the Broadway Plaza Hotel. The allegations had involved sexual harassment and wage and hours violations; the terms of...

Reporting on litigation initiated by BSF on behalf of the Florida Pediatric Society against the State of Florida claiming the State’s healthcare system has neglected low-income children. The complaint alleges that 1.6 million children in Florida do...

Reporting that former American International Group Chairman and CEO, Maurice R. (“Hank”) Greenberg has hired David Boies, “the legal world’s equivalent of a rock star,” and his firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner to defend him in connection with...