On September 17, partner and Co-Head of the Commodities & Derivatives Practice Neal Kumar will moderate the panel titled “CFTC Enforcement.” The event is part of the FIA Forum: Commodities 2024, hosted in Houston, Texas. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/d3GVACTm
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Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP provides leading-edge legal solutions on complex, business critical issues spanning markets and industries. Our approximately 1,200 attorneys across 15 offices worldwide deliver innovative, pragmatic and sophisticated legal services across approximately 45 practice areas. Learn more at www.willkie.com.
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Updates
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In the last days of June and in July, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission brought a number of new litigated actions across a broad swath of hot-button areas, including crypto and activist short selling. July also saw significant developments in the closely watched SolarWinds litigation, which has the potential to reshape the SEC’s approach to cybersecurity enforcement. Full background: https://lnkd.in/d2W4Z6zE
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Adam Aderton, Daniel Alvarez, Laura Jehl and Jahi B. recently wrote an article for the Computer & Internet Lawyer, reviewing a court dismissal of the SEC’s internal accounting and disclosure controls and procedures claims in a cybersecurity matter. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/dzDt4NMN
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Willkie announced today that Danielle Garbien, a leading renewable energy and energy finance attorney, has joined the Firm as a partner. She is based in New York. Danielle has over 20 years of experience advising clients on projects relating to the development, acquisition, financing, disposition, and/or restructuring of renewable energy and infrastructure projects, as well as complex structured commodity and secured lien-based hedging arrangements. With a focus on power, renewable energy, energy transition and battery storage projects, her clients include developers, private equity investors, alternative investment managers, financial institutions and offtakers. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dxfFXK-2
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The California Department of Insurance has issued a notice of proposed action with respect to an exempt rulemaking for Catastrophe Modeling and Ratemaking. The action would amend existing regulations and add new provisions to existing ratemaking regulations to allow insurers to use catastrophe modeling in ratemaking under certain specified circumstances. Full background: https://lnkd.in/eAcPXFsi
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This week, members of Willkie’s Chicago office participated in Race Judicata, a 5k run/walk in Lincoln Park in Chicago. The annual race, now in its 28th year, benefits the Chicago Volunteer Legal Services Foundation whose mission is to ensure that the law works for everyone. Thanks to all who participated!
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A Willkie litigation team led by partners Antonio Yanez, Alex Cheney and Brady Sullivan was recognized as a “Runner Up” by The AmLaw Litigation Daily for securing a victory for client L-5 Healthcare Partners, a family office investment vehicle, in novel specific performance litigation against Alphatec Holdings Inc. In a post-trial memorandum opinion, the Delaware Court of Chancery ordered defendant Alphatec, a company in which L-5 had invested, to perform its contractual obligations to sell L-5 over one million Alphatec warrants. The trial team included associates Sean Lavin, Emma Rosen and Rahima G. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/ex_M5FNP
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The National Law Journal selected Willkie as a finalist for the 2024 Community Impact Leaders award for its sustainability commitment, community foundations, diversity and inclusion initiatives, and landmark pro bono cases from the last year. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/d86wDsAw
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Michael Gottlieb and Meryl Governski (Conant), partners in Willkie’s Litigation Department, have been selected as finalists for the 2024 Winning Litigators award by the National Law Journal. The award highlights attorneys for their work guiding clients through high-stakes litigation. Mike and Meryl were recognized for their representation of Fulton County Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss in their landmark defamation lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani, which culminated in a $148 million jury verdict following a week-long jury trial in late 2023. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dTTZ25HY
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The 2024 Summer National Meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners was held from August 12 to August 15, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois. Full background: https://lnkd.in/dCjtn3FA
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