While our lawyers typically are concerned in trying circumstances, making new legislation and dealing with headline-grabbing issues, our abiding aim is to assist every of our shoppers achieve the finest possible outcome, whether or not by early settlement or by way of trial and enchantment. We have many years of expertise before state and federal appellate courts, together with the us Our appellate expertise extends to all areas of the firm’s litigation practice, including antitrust, complexbusiness litigation, government enforcement, insurance coverage, mental property, labor and employment, andsecurities. McGuireWoods represents a number of the nation’s largest companies and monetary institutions in complex securities and capital markets issues, together with private and non-private securities offerings and compliance under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. We rank among the high legislation corporations for debt and equity issuances primarily based on deal quantity and dollar value in reputable, benchmarking league tables printed by Refinitiv and Bloomberg and have earned repeated honors from the International Financial Law Review, including for Debt and Equity Linked Deal of the Year. Mr. Oliver’s knowledge and experience is unusually broad – it includes a selection of registered securities offerings, franchise offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and debt financings.
We Feel At House Within The Courtroom
In a significant victory for PG&E within the California Court of Appeal for the Third District, we greatly restricted California utilities’ litigation exposure from wildfires by eliminating the menace of punitive damages for the 2015 Butte Fire. The court held that, in mild of PG&E’s in depth vegetation management program alongside its 135,000 miles of powerlines, PG&E couldn’t possibly be discovered to have consciously disregarded the danger of tree-related wildfires. In addition to saving PG&E from doubtlessly billions of dollars in punitive damages, the decision creates important new California law protecting firms that institute threat administration packages from the threat of such damages. We obtained reversal within the Second Circuit of our client’s individual white-collar conviction on charges of violating the Iranian trade embargo and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business primarily based on his receipt of family funds despatched from Iran through an informal money switch system referred to as a hawala. The court held that the ITR do not unambiguously prohibit non-commercial remittances, together with family remittances, between the United States and Iran, and that the district court had erred by improperly equating operation of a hawala with operation of a cash transmitting business. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in a go well with in opposition to Bank of America and different banks for fraudulent RMBS practices.
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We work with purchasers across industries, notably consumer merchandise, power, financial services, hospitality, prescription drugs and medical gadgets, manufacturing, retail, technology and transportation. The group understands the industry-specific securities compliance points and reporting necessities that affect clients. We additionally assist public corporations with tender offers, redemptions and consent solicitations, and we advise on complicated sustainable financing transactions, similar to impression investing, green and blue bonds, blended finance constructions and structured sustainability-linked loans. Based in New York and different international hubs, our appellate legal professionals supply a classy understanding of the unique needs of international purchasers pursuing appeals.