North America - United States • Dispute resolution
Mayer Brown
Mayer Brown routinely handles putative class actions and financial services litigation, with the practice group’s broad footprint extending both nationwide and internationally. Four lawyers jointly lead the department: Reginald Goeke is based in Washington DC and maintains a practice which strongly emphasizes the financial services industry. In Chicago, Michael Olsen‘s specialism lies within mass and toxic tort litigation, whilst New York’s Richard Spehr is a key name for federal and state securities law issues as well as for government and internal investigations. Los Angeles-based practitioner Bronwyn Pollock rounds out the leadership group; Pollock is extremely experienced handling complex cross-border disputes for clients in the insurance sector.
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Key clients
- BASF Corporation
- Veolia S.A.
- Yale University
- Bank of Montreal
- Citibank
- Northrop Grumman
- HSBC
- The American Trucking Association
- Cargill
- Banque Pictet
- GWG Holdings
- Generali U.S. Branch
- Scandrill Inc.
Work highlights
- Represented Citibank in a two-week bench trial and related appeal arising out of a $1bn mistaken wire transfer, resulting in the return of all mistakenly-transferred funds.
- Represented the American Trucking Association and two individual companies in a suit which resulted in a precedent-setting order permanently enjoining and declaring unconstitutional under the dormant Commerce Clause Rhode Island’s “RhodeWorks” tolling program, which placed a toll only on large commercial trucks using Rhode Island’s Interstate highways.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Reginald Goeke, Michael Olsen, Bronwyn Pollock, Richard Spehr