On September 21, 2015, Judge Denise L. Cote of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York endorsed Bank of New York Mellon's ("BNYM") September 18, 2015 letter reporting that the parties had settled a case in which BNYM sought repurchase of a number of allegedly defective loans as trustee for the GE-WMC Mortgage Securities Trust 2006-1.

Faced with huge losses in the subprime mortgage market, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on September 15, 2008.

Orrick litigators Glenn Dassoff and Harry Moren co-authored an article that identifies several key factors companies should consider when choosing between disclosure and nondisclosure agreements.

The Second Circuit vacated a decision of a U.S. District Court refusing to approve a settlement of claims that the SEC brought against Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

Orrick's Wendy Butler Curtis and Redgrave's Kevin Brady have co-authored an article in Corporate Counsel entitled "Wants vs. Needs: Guideposts to Ensuring Appropriate Scope of Discovery."

Every other year, Orrick and the Bond Buyer present an overview of the charter school facilities bond sector, highlighting transaction fundamentals, sector-level research data, and credit...

Wired's editor-in-chief Nicholas Thompson is interviewed on tech trends with commentary by Annette Hurst, IP attorney on AI legal considerations.

The EEOC and the OFCCP regularly share information between the agencies to avoid duplicative information collections and to minimize the burden on employers.

The gender diversity report is Orrick's latest examination of corporate governance practices among the nation's public companies.

Raising major public policy questions in one of the most closely watched cases on the U.S. Supreme Court's docket this term...

As part of a continued effort in Europe to reform insolvency legislation, the British government issued a paper in March 2018 as a response to a draft directive published by the European Commission in November 2016.

Orrick's Jeffrey McKenna co-authored an article for Inside Counsel and Legaltech News entitled "The General Data Protection Regulation's Key Implications for E-Discovery."

On Jan. 3, 2014, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals revived a price-fixing suit brought by milk retailers, reversing the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of defendants.

On Oct. 27, 2014, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas dismissed with prejudice a complaint accusing a group of online travel booking companies of colluding to set hotel room rates.

On November 17, Bank of America and Merrill Lynch settled securities claims brought by the FDIC related to RMBS sold to United Western Bank.

On August 26, Judge Mariana R. Pfaelzer of the U.S. District Court for the Central District Court of California dismissed with prejudice a suit brought by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation against Countrywide Securities Corporation, Countrywide Financial Corporation, Bank of America Corporation, Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. and Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Justice Marcy Friedman granted in part and denied in part Nomura’s motion to dismiss claims brought by HSBC, as Trustee for the NAAC 2006-AF2 RMBS Trust.

Attached is a new, much more fulsome compendium of useful checklists for M&A matters for 2019!

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a trial's court's dismissal of IKB International SA's claims against Wilmington Trust Co., holding that IKB had not demonstrated that Wilmington violated its contractual obligations.

Harry recommended that companies not stop efforts to document payments to foreign governments until it's certain the reporting requirements are definitively eliminated.