2008 News
"Editor's Notebook: Hot Topics from the Top 100"
Crowell & Moring Government Contracts Group partner Shauna E. Alonge is featured for her participation in Washington Technology's Top 100 Conference and Awards luncheon. More than 200 top government leaders attended the June conference. The conference addressed topics including: market overview; compliance and ethics landmines; the presidential elections; and hot topics in contracting.
June 25, 2008 – Washington Technology
"Divorce American Style"
Crowell & Moring International Dispute Resolution Group co-chair Stuart H. Newberger is featured in the Focus Europe edition of the American Lawyer for representation of his client Mansur Maqsudi/Roz Trading Ltd.
June 24, 2008 – The American Lawyer
Crowell & Moring is featured in the American Lawyer's "Big Deals" column for the firm's work on Reed Elsevier’s agreement to buy ChoicePoint Inc. for $4.1 billion. Led by Crowell & Moring partner and vice-chair of the firm’s Antitrust Group, Robert A. Lipstein, along with counsel Michael Van Arsdall, the firm represented Reed Elsevier on antitrust matters surrounding the deal. Pending approval from shareholders and regulators, the deal is expected to be finalized in the summer of 2008.
June 2008 – American Lawyer
"60 Seconds"
Linda Crow, a London-based senior counsel in Crowell & Moring’s Corporate/Securities and Financial Services groups, is profiled in a ACQ Magazine Q&A on her career.
June 2008 – ACQ Magazine, Vol. 7, Issue 2
Crowell & Moring is featured in the American Lawyer's "Big Suits" column for the firm's work on the largest single reimbursement payout by Medicare. On March 11, 2008, the federal government agreed to pay $666 million in back payments to 667 hospitals. Led by Crowell & Moring Health Care Group partner, Robert L. Roth, the firm represented 86 hospitals and filed some of the first cases in late 2002. The case is "In re Medicare Reimbursement Litigation."
June 2008 – American Lawyer
"Flaw in the Marketplace Hurts Smaller Security Tech Firms"
Crowell & Moring Government Contracts Group partner David Z. Bodenheimer is featured for his comments on homeland security technology in the state and local marketplace.
June 9, 2008 – CQ Homeland Security
Aryeh S. Portnoy, a counsel in Crowell & Moring’s Litigation and International and Government Litigation/Arbitration practice groups, is featured in the Washington Business Journal for his commitment to pro bono work. The article focuses on the steady increase of pro bono hours at DC law firm, due to recent commitments by firm partners to focus more on community projects. According to the Pro Bono Institute, 150 firms have reported 4.2 million hours of pro bono work this year. In 2007, the same firms did not even hit 4 million hours.
June 9, 2008 – Washington Business Journal
Crowell & Moring International Dispute Resolution Group co-chair Arif Hyder Ali and associate Kassi D. Tallent write about the U.S. judiciary’s approach to arbitration and arbitral rewards.
May 2008 – Legal Business Arbitration Report 2008
"Caution Required in a Post-Leegin World: Experts"
Crowell & Moring partner, and vice-chair of the Antitrust Group, Robert A. Lipstein is featured in Competition Law360 for his comments on the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Leegin Creative Leather Products Inc. v. PSKS Inc. The decision gave manufacturers the power to set a minimum price retailers must charge.
May 22, 2008 – Competition Law 360
"Infinity Sees Strong Demand for Construction Loans"
William O'Connor, partner and head of Crowell & Moring's Financial Services Group, is featured in Real Estate Finance & Investment for his comments on the recent demand for construction loans.
May 21, 2008 - Real Estate Finance & Investment
Crowell & Moring founding partner Eldon "Took" Crowell and pro bono partner Susan M. Hoffman were featured as among the 90 greatest Washington lawyers of the last 30 years for their contribution to the D.C. legal community and work in building Crowell & Moring.
May 19, 2008 – Legal Times
"US Company Threatens Georgia With Arbitration"
Crowell & Moring International Dispute Resolution Group partner Alexandre de Gramont is featured for his comments on iZee Enterprises’ threat to take the Georgian government to arbitration over a property dispute. iZee Enterprises says 200 officers from the Georgian Interior Department forcibly seized properties of three companies in Tbilisi in which iZee has investments. de Gramont is representing iZee
May 16, 2008 – Global Arbitration Review
"MFA Presses for Guidance on Securities Trading Safe Harbor"
Crowell & Moring Tax Group partner Viva Hammer is featured in the "Tax" section of The Hedge Fund Law Report for her comments on including distressed debt in the securities trading safe harbor as outlined by the Treasury Department and the IRS.
May 13, 2008 – The Hedge Fund Law Report, Vol. 1, No. 11
"FTC to Block Hospital Merger"
New York-based Crowell & Moring Health Care and Antitrust Group partner Christine L. White is featured for her comments on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s review of Inova Health System Foundation’s acquisition of Prince William Health System.
May 12, 2008 – Global Competition Review
Crowell & Moring Intellectual Property Group partner Kathryn L. Clune is featured for making the "Top IP People Under 45" list in the May 2008 issue of IP Law & Business.
May 2008 – IP Law & Business
News of the press conference for Crowell & Moring international trade client, Jiaxing Association of Fastners, is featured in the European Lawyer. The topic discussed during the press conference was the European Commission’s recently launched investigations into steel fasteners from China used in a broad range of industries, including construction, automobile and agriculture. Crowell & Moring Brussels-based public relations consultants, Hill & Knowlton, helped to arrange the event held at Crowell & Moring’s Brussels office.
April 2008 – European Lawyer
"Yukos Expert Founds Boutique"
Crowell & Moring International Dispute Resolution Group co-chair Arif Hyder Ali is featured for his comments on the new boutique consulting firm Gordius Consulting LLC. Gordius Consulting was founded by Wayne Wilson.
April 29, 2008 – Global Arbitration Review
"Event Re-Starts Diversity Debate"
Crowell & Moring International Dispute Resolution Group co-chair Arif Hyder Ali is featured for his comments on diversity in the field of international arbitration. Ali’s comments come after recent publicity for a roundtable titled, "Arbitration across borders, cultures and gender lines," scheduled for May 2008. Issues surrounding gender, age, and opportunities for women and lawyers in the field of international arbitration will be discussed.
April 25, 2008 – Global Arbitration Review
Crowell & Moring Government Contracts Group partner Robert Nichols is featured for his comments on a recent meeting held in Iraq to discuss construction and the final completion efforts to build the new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. Nichols, as well as Crowell & Moring associate Christopher E. Gagné, attended the meeting as legal counsel to the main contractor First Kuwaiti General Trading & Contracting. Top State Department officials, along with senior staff members from First Kuwaiti, also attended the meeting.
April 18, 2008 – The Washington Post
"EU Crackdown on Price-Fixing is Too Soft to Make a Difference in UK"
Crowell & Moring London office counsel Jane Wessel is featured for her comments on Neelie Kroes', European Union Competition Commissioner, White Paper proposal that would make it easier for victims to seek compensation when companies break EU fair-trading laws.
April 15, 2008 – The Evening Standard. Additional placements for Wessel on this topic include: European Voice
"Competition: Collective Redress: Commission to Distance Itself from US Model"
Crowell & Moring Brussels office partner Thomas de Meese is featured in EUROPOLITICS for his comments on whether Europe can create its own system of collective redress. On April 3, 2008, the European Commission issued a White Paper on preliminary proposals for a new European basis for collective damages claims.
April 9, 2008 - EUROPOLITICS
"Brussels Enters the Fray Over Class Actions"
Managing Partner of Crowell & Moring’s Brussels office, Emmanuel Gybels, is featured for his comments on the idea of group damages claims (a.k.a. class actions) that are slowly taking root in Europe. This is a result of the European Commission’s recent request for views on principles that could guide the development of a pan-European "collective action" system.
March 27, 2008 – Financial Times
"EPA Signals Go-Slow Approach on Global Warming Rules"
Co-chair of Crowell & Moring’s Environment & Natural Resources Group Chet M. Thompson is featured for his comments on the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to seek public comment by way of an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) on the Supreme Court’s ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA. Thompson is the former Deputy General Counsel of the EPA.
March 27, 2008 – Associated Press. Additional placements for Thompson on this topic included: Inside Washington’s Carbon Control News, Defense Environment Alert, Inside EPA, Clean Air Report, and Risk Policy Report; BNA’s Daily Report for Executives and Daily Environment Report; Crain’s Waste News; Platts Oilgram News; and Energy Law360
"Biodiversity: A Passion for Science, Politics, or Both"
Environment & Natural Resources Partner Steven P. Quarles was cited for his thoughts on the subject of biodiversity in a recent review of Timothy J. Farnham's book, Saving Nature's Legacy: Origins of the Idea of Biological Diversity. Reviewer and environmental consultant G. Tracy Mehan III, a member of the Board of Directors of the Potomac Conservancy and an Adjunct Professor at George Mason University School of Law, cited the Crowell & Moring partner for his thoughts on the blurring of science, policy, and politics as a contributing factor to the controversy surrounding the Endangered Species Act.
May/June 2008 – The Environmental Forum
Crowell & Moring welcomes a dual-qualified US-Venezuelan lawyer to its International Dispute Resolution Group. Daniel Vielleville joins the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as counsel. News of Vielleville joining the IDR Group was featured in the Latin Lawyer and the Global Arbitration Review.
March 4, 2008 – Latin Lawyer
In a rare look behind the scenes at Crowell & Moring, the firm is featured for its willingness to take on complex client matters and its success in attracting top partner additions. "The firm has been hitting on most cylinders, it seems. Litigation has been hot..."
March 3, 2008 - Legal Times
Crowell & Moring Insurance/Reinsurance Group partner Jonathan H. Pittman and counsel Paul Alp examined the Texas Supreme Court's January 11, 2008 rejection of an appeal in AIG Aviation Inc. v. Holt Helicopters Inc., involving a helicopter accident for which an insurer denied coverage. The piece examines insurance policies that routinely contain explicit provisions that establish the scope of the risk insured. According to Pttman and Alp, "such clauses are not to be taken lightly because they establish the fundamental nature of the risk that the insurer agrees to cover - the basis of the bargain for which the policyholder pays its premium."
March 3, 2008 – Legal Times
Crowell & Moring International Dispute Resolution Group co-chair Arif Hyder Ali, and counsels Katherine J. Nesbitt and Jane Wessel, discuss anti-suit injunctions in support of international arbitration in the United Sates and the United Kingdom.
March 1, 2008 – International Arbitration Law Review
"Angels or Dragons"
Crowell & Moring International Arbitration Group co-chair Arif Hyder Ali is featured for his comments on third-party funding in international arbitration cases.
February 2008 – Global Arbitration Review, Volume 3, Issue 1
"SEC, European Regulators Discussing Derivatives Market to Aid Transparency"
Crowell & Moring's Financial Services Group partners William M. O'Connor and Viva Hammer are featured for their comments in BNA's Daily Report for Executives relating to discussions surrounding the SEC and European Regulators creating a public exchange for certain derivatives products in an effort to enhance market transparency.
February 25, 2008 - BNA Daily Report for Executives, No. 36, ISSN 1523-567X
"ETN Tax Reform Revs Up in Congress"
Crowell & Moring Partner Viva Hammer is featured for her comments about the much debated tax advantages to exchange-traded notes and the resulting attention the issue is receiving from Congress.
February 15, 2008 - Ignites
"Vanguard Battles Barclays Over 'Derivatives for the Masses'"
Crowell & Moring Partner Viva Hammer is featured in Bloomberg News for her comments about a new product introduced by Barclays that provides a favorable tax advantage over mutual funds which is being viewed by the mutual fund industry trade group as "unwarranted, unintended and unfair".
February 14, 2008 - Bloomberg News
"EU Pharma Probe Expected to Veer From FTC Course"
Crowell & Moring Antitrust and Health Care Group partner Christine L. White is featured for her comments on the European Commission’s (EC) investigation into potential antitrust issues and patent abuse in the pharmaceutical industry, and how it differs from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s investigation process. The EC has said that its sectorwide investigation will examine whether reverse deals between makers of brand-name drugs and their generic-making counterparts are anti-competitive and whether patents have been handed out and enforced too liberally.
February 12, 2008 – Competition Law360 and IP Law360
"More Borrowers Applying For DIP Financing"
Crowell & Moring's Corporate and Financial Services Group partner William M. O'Connor is featured for his comments in Institutional Investor's Real Estate Finance and Investment publication to address the increasing trend of borrowers"to leapfrog from the workout stage to the bankruptcy stage" during this credit crunch period.
February 4, 2008 - Real Estate Finance & Investment, A Publication of Institutional Investor, Inc., Vol. XIV, No. 5
A Crowell & Moring team led by Labor & Employment co-chair Jeffrey W. Pagano, with assistance from Herbert Meyer, Glenn Grant and Ira Saxe, successfully argued before the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ("DCCA") on behalf of Mail Contractors of America ("MCA"), and obtained reversal of a decision of the National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB") that found that MCA had unlawfully refused to bargain regarding a unilateral change of a driver relay point. The right of MCA, the largest U.S. Postal Service depot to depot mail carrier, to unilaterally change the relay point was contained in the Management Rights provision of MCA's final offer, implemented after impasse. The DCCA squarely rejected the NLRB's position that exercise of that right violated the National Labor Relations Act. The Court's Opinion is a landmark decision, and was featured as the lead article in the January 31, 2008 edition of the BNA Daily Labor Report, as it ensures an employer's ability to operate its business without interference of a union after implementation of a final offer.
January 31, 2008 - BNA's Daily Labor Report, No. 20, ISSN 1522-5968
Court Documents:
Mail Contractors of America v. NLRB, Nos. 06-1338, 06-1380, 2008 WL 220637 (D.C. Cir. Jan. 29, 2008)
Crowell & Moring LLP’s Antitrust Group has been included in Global Competition Review's (GCR) 2008 edition of the GCR 100: The World's Leading Competition Law Practices. The firm’s Antitrust Group was included on the list “thanks to an impressive docket of cases,” according to the publication. The GCR 100 analyzes the top 100 competition practices in the world, as selected by the magazine’s editorial staff and research team. Global Competition Review is the leading international journal of competition policy and regulation.
January 2008 – Global Competition Review
"Distressed Debt Level to Rise in 2008; Valuations Will Mean Increased Litigation"
Crowell & Moring's Corporate and Financial Services Group partner William M. O'Connor is featured for his comments in BNA's Daily Report for Executives relating to the outlook of distressed debt levels in 2008 and the impact it will have on litigation.
January 17, 2008 - BNA Daily Report for Executives, No. 11, ISSN 1523-567X
Crowell & Moring Healthcare and White Collar & Securities Litigation Group partner, David W. O’Brien, is featured for his comments on the 2006 lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice and the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida against Christi Sulzbach, the former general counsel for Tenet Healthcare. The lawsuit alleges that Tenet’s General Counsel knowingly submitted false statements confirming that Tenet was in compliance with federal health care laws. Accoring to O’Brien, "the message to come out of this case is that the government will scrutinize any certification, whether pursuant to a [corporate integrity agreement] or a regulatory obligation, and if it comes to conclude that the certification was problematic, it will take action."
January 15, 2008 – Compliance Week
"CMS Gas Award Wins Arbitration of the Year"
Crowell & Moring International Dispute Resolution Group counsel Baiju S. Vasani is featured in the Global Arbitration Review for his comments on the Oil Gas Energy Mining Infrastructure and Investment Disputes (OGEMID) group’s “Arbitration of the Year Award.” The winner in 2007, as voted on by users of OGEMID, was CMS Gas in CMS Gas v. Argentina. Vasani ran the competition with Michael McIlwrath, senior counsel for GE Infrastructure.
January 11, 2008 – Global Arbitration Review
"Crowell & Moring Boosts West Coast Practice"
Crowell & Moring welcomes Karen A. Gibbs to the firm’s Irvine, California office as a partner in the Antitrust and Health Care Groups. News of Gibbs joining Crowell & Moring was featured in Global Competition Review and the National Law Journal.
January 8, 2008 – Global Competition Review
Crowell & Moring Healthcare Group partner Robert L. Roth is featured for his insights throughout BNA’s Health Law Reporter “Outlook 2008” lead report. Roth addresses topics ranging from the paymentization and compliancization of patient care quality to fraud and abuse issues. According to the results of an informal survey of BNA’s Health Law Reporter’s editorial advisory board, patient care quality will be a top health law issue in 2008.
January 3, 2008 – BNA’s Health Law Reporter, Vol. 17, No. 1
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