Practice Area Committee
Accomplishment Type
Collateralized Loan Obligation Transaction
Accomplishment Description
Represented strategic equity investors in six separate CLO transactions totaling ~$4B. These investors utilized a fairly unique investment technique whereby each invested indirectly in each transaction through separate special purpose vehicles that issued their own securities, backed by the underlying CLO securities. Each transaction included privately placed Rule 144A securities.
Firm Name
BurgherGray LLP
Practice Area Committee
Accomplishment Type
Warehouse Financing Transaction
Accomplishment Description
Represented strategic equity investors in six separate CLO transactions totaling ~$4B. These investors utilized a fairly unique investment technique whereby each invested indirectly in each transaction through separate special purpose vehicles that issued their own securities, backed by the underlying CLO securities. Each transaction included privately placed Rule 144A securities.
Firm Name
BurgherGray LLP
Practice Area Committee
Accomplishment Type
Warehouse Financing Transaction
Accomplishment Description
Represented subordinated lenders in $450M CLO warehouse financing facility documented in the form of a total return swap on standard ISDA documentation, including CSA for margin collateral. Subordinated financing provided in the form of purchase of preference shares issued by Cayman Islands SPV swap counterparty that was merged with and into CLO issuer on the closing date.
Firm Name
BurgherGray LLP
Practice Area Committee
Accomplishment Type
REMICS & Mortgage-Backed Securities Transactions
Accomplishment Description
Recently selected as a legal sub-contractor to a government-sponsored enterprise (GSE), providing services relating to its multiclass securities program involving the issuance of than more $43B REMIC securities backed by government-insured mortgage loans. BG will also assist with MBS, including securitized single-family and multi-family residential mortgage loans. The initial engagement is for 5 years.
Firm Name
BurgherGray LLP
Practice Area Committee
Accomplishment Type
Cybersecurity/General Data Protection Regulation
Accomplishment Description
BurgherGray has launched its EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) data protection officer (DPO) services, offering services in US, Europe, Jamaica and Bermuda. In collaboration with leading cybersecurity technology consultants, BurgherGray’s unique business model has created a cutting-edge DPO offering. This program is headed by Dauna Williams, Of Counsel.
Firm Name
BurgherGray LLP
Practice Area Committee
Accomplishment Type
New York City Jacob Javits Center Negotiations
Accomplishment Description
Represented a public agency in the drafting and negotiation of the long-term lease between the owner of the Jacob Javits Center located in New York City and the operator of the convention center.
Firm Name
Love and Long, LLP
Practice Area Committee
Accomplishment Type
Client Dismissal in All Cases in the MDL Outside of NJ & DC
Accomplishment Description
Successfully obtained with national counsel, the stipulated voluntary dismissal on personal jurisdiction grounds of a major trade association, from every case in the Johnson & Johnson Talcum Powder Litigation MDL but those designated for remand to the Districts of New Jersey and Columbia. This dismissed hundreds of ovarian cancer claims and consortium claims.
Firm Name
The Axelrod Firm, PC
Practice Area Committee
Accomplishment Type
Summary Judgment
Accomplishment Description
Successfully obtained summary judgment in a California federal court for a Fortune 500 client-manufacturer in a products liability wrongful death case arising out of a military helicopter accident. The Court granted The Axelrod Firm’s client’s motion for summary judgment and denied the motion for summary judgment of its fellow co-defendant manufacturer.
Firm Name
The Axelrod Firm, PC
Practice Area Committee
Accomplishment Type
Launch of Non-profit and Funding of Signal Messenger
Accomplishment Description
Represented Signal Foundation in connection with its launch by WhatsApp Co-Founder Brian Acton and the $50,000,000 funding of encrypted messaging technology provider Signal Messenger. The Acceleron team representing Signal Foundation was led by Partner Rob Dang, who previously represented WhatsApp prior to its acquisition by Facebook, and Partners Julie A. Ryan and Elizabeth Chandler.
Firm Name
Acceleron Law Group, LLP
Practice Area Committee
Accomplishment Type
Litigation/Engagement
Accomplishment Description
CHEN MALIN LLP was selected as lead litigation counsel by several Fortune 100 and Global Fortune 2000 companies over AmLaw 100 and 200 firms for patent litigation matters. Two of these cases are pending in the Northern and Central Districts of California, encompass ten (10) asserted patents, and include a case that the client transferred to the CHEN MALIN team from a well-known AmLaw 200 firm after observing the differences in how these teams approached litigation.
Firm Name
Chen Malin LLP
Practice Area Committee
Accomplishment Type
Litigation
Accomplishment Description
On behalf of Fortune 50 and Global Fortune 2000 clients in the manufacturing, retail, electronics, and semiconductor industries, the lawyers at CHEN MALIN LLP recently resolved six (6) patent infringement matters in federal courts in New York, Colorado, Virginia, California, and Texas. Over half of these matters were resolved without any payment to the patent holder, and the remainder were resolved with payments of five-figures or less.
Firm Name
Chen Malin LLP
Practice Area Committee
Accomplishment Type
Engagement
Accomplishment Description
CHEN MALIN LLP was recently selected by the Atlanta Housing Authority as its approved counsel for complex technology transactions. Multiple public agencies and large enterprise corporations have turned to the CHEN MALIN team for assistance with their complex technology transactions for our experience with technology, transactions, and litigation.
Firm Name
Chen Malin LLP
Practice Area Committee
Accomplishment Type
Top Ranking Honors
Accomplishment Description
Ellisa Habbart received top ranking from Chambers and Partners on May 3, 2018 for her corporate, M&A, and alternative entity law expertise. Chambers described her as “one of the smartest, most competent in Delaware” and praised her for her “good approach to problem solving and analytical mind”.
Firm Name
The Delaware Counsel Group
Practice Area Committee
Accomplishment Type
Summary Judgment Granted in National Class Action
Accomplishment Description
Successfully obtained summary judgment in a Florida federal court for client, Rich Product Corp. in an action seeking overtime pay under the FLSA for a national class of truck drivers who deliver Carvel® ice cream cakes and other frozen desserts. The Court granted Schroder, Joseph & Associates’ motion for summary judgment at the close of discovery, finding the Defendant met its burden to demonstrate that the Motor Carrier Act exemption applied by reason of the undisputed facts.
Firm Name
Schroder, Joseph & Associates, LLP
Practice Area Committee
Accomplishment Type
Ground Lease
Accomplishment Description
Represented non-profit in negotiating ground lease for construction of Korean-American national museum, multi-family residential and shared museum-residential-public parking. Client’s long-term goal is to purchase fee title. We negotiated purchase option exercisable any time following 10th anniversary of project completion, based on raw land value without improvements or entitlements, but taking account of reduced value due to affordable housing covenant and public parking easement. Ground lease authorizes residential component to be operated by non-profit’s newly formed for-profit subsidiary, an innovative approach under which subsidiary will serve as social responsibility enterprise by raising revenue to support non-profit. John Lim and Marc Manason worked on this matter.
Firm Name
LimNexus LLP
Practice Area Committee
Accomplishment Type
Summary Judgment Granted
Accomplishment Description
Obtained summary judgment in Los Angeles Superior Court on behalf of a national healthcare provider in a pregnancy discrimination/failure to accommodate lawsuit brought by a former traveling nurse who announced her pregnancy hours before she was terminated. Attorneys on the case were Martina Nagle, Emily Fox, and Mark Rein.
Firm Name
Wilson Turner Kosmo LLP
Practice Area Committee
Accomplishment Type
Appellate Victory
Accomplishment Description
Achieved appellate victory on behalf of a Fortune 500 retailer. Persuaded Court of Appeal to affirm post-trial orders awarding employer $66,000 in costs (even though FEHA claim was not frivolous under Williams) and denying employee’s motion for $1.67 million in attorney’s fees (even though jury returned a mixed-motive verdict under Harris). Claudette Wilson, Emily Fox, and Mark Rein tried the case and argued the appeal.
Firm Name
Wilson Turner Kosmo LLP
Practice Area Committee
Accomplishment Type
Testimony
Accomplishment Description
Attorney Michael S. Kalt testified before the California Senate Judiciary in his capacity as Government Affairs Director for CalSHRM to oppose SB 1038, which would amend the California Fair Employment and Housing Act to impose individual liability upon supervisors and human resources professionals for post-complaint retaliation.
Firm Name
Wilson Turner Kosmo LLP
Practice Area Committee
Accomplishment Type
Summary Judgment Affirmed
Accomplishment Description
Summary judgment affirmed by 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on a FEHA disability discrimination and failure to accommodate case where the employee alleged she was wrongfully terminated pursuant to the employer’s leave of absence policy. Claudette Wilson, Daniel Gunning, and Morgan Suder were the attorneys on the case.
Firm Name
Wilson Turner Kosmo LLP