In this case, Plaintiffs alleged that TD Ameritrade Futures & Forex LLC (TDAFF) engaged in fraud and acted in a recklessly and commercially unreasonable manner by liquidating putative class members’ deep out-of-the-money short put options on the E-mini S&P500® futures...

Compass Lexecon experts Marcelo Schoeters and Julián Delamer were retained by Abertis Infraestructuras S.A. ("Claimants"), a toll concession operator, as quantum experts in an ICSID arbitration against the Government of Argentina. Mr. Schoeters and Mr. Delamer filed an expert report...

Compass Lexecon provided economic advice and analysis in the $66 billion global acquisition of Monsanto by Bayer. Both Bayer and Monsanto are active in the supply of seeds and seed treatments, including those designed to work with patented seed traits....

Compass Lexecon President Daniel R. Fischel Testifies Successfully In August 2017, Judge William Martinez of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado granted Archstone's motions for summary judgment and ordered the entry of a final judgment in...

Compass Lexecon was retained on behalf of JP Morgan Investment Management (JPMIM) in two cases brought by AMBAC and Assured Guaranty alleging gross negligence and breaches of contract related to investment decisions for assets in two triple X securitizations providing...

Compass Lexecon client Prudential Insurance Company of America successfully defeated class certification in a matter brought by Plaintiffs representing a putative class of employer-sponsored life insurance beneficiaries. Plaintiffs contended that the method of payment of the life insurance benefits did...

Court Relies on Analysis of Compass Lexecon Affiliate Professor Allen Ferrell In an important decision analyzing relevant precedents and admissible expert testimony based on a leakage model in securities fraud litigation, Judge Robert W. Sweet of the Southern District of...

Court Relies on Analysis by Compass Lexecon Senior Affiliate Professor Christopher L. Culp In Re: North Sea Brent Crude Oil Futures Litigation On March 29, 2016, Judge Andrew L. Carter, Jr. in the Southern District of New York issued an...

Morgan Stanley and Van Kampen served as investment advisors to various closed-end municipal and taxable bond funds. In order to generate leverage, the funds issued auction rate preferred securities (ARPS). In February 2008, the downgrades of monoline bond insurers and...

On November 18, 2013 an Arbitration Panel ruled invalid the consent solicitation undertaken by Corvex Management LP (Corvex) and Related Fund Management, LLC (Related) in June 2013 to remove the Board of Trustees of CommonWealth REIT (CommonWealth). The Panel also...

On February 3, 2012, Judge Richard J. Holwell (Southern District of New York) ruled in favor of Compass Lexecon’s client, Prudential Retirement Insurance and Annuity Co. (PRIAC), in the lawsuit it had brought against State Street Bank and Trust Company....

In this recent arbitration Compass Lexecon was retained by Jonathan Polkes and Caroline Zalka of Weil, Gotshal & Manges on behalf of their client Archstone to respond to allegations that Archstone breached agreements with Claimants in the course of implementing...

On December 30, 2010, in a decision scrutinized and commented upon by multiple international organizations and government officials, Judge Victor Danilkin of Moscow Khamovnichesky District Court found our clients Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, once Russia’s richest oil businessman, and his partner...

In one of the most prominent cases arising from the financial crisis, the Securities and Exchange Commission sued Angelo Mozilo and other executives for securities fraud and insider trading related to their work running Countrywide Financial and its mortgage businesses....

A federal court jury in San Francisco found that Compass Lexecon’s client, Michael Pattison, was not liable for alleged securities fraud, aiding and abetting securities fraud, or aiding and abetting the filing of misleading reports in connection with an alleged...

Federal Guaranty Insurance Co. (FGIC) entered into a master agreement with MBIA Insurance Corp. (MBIA) in which MBIA acquired approximately $184 billion of FGIC’s municipal bond insurance obligations. GE Funding Holdings, Inc. (GE), the owner of FGIC’s senior preferred shares,...

We were retained in this case by Mark Hansen of Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel P.L.L.C. and Bruce Kaplan of Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman LLP to work on behalf of their clients Bain Capital Partners and Thomas...

This case involved litigation over the refusal by a group of lenders to provide financing to our client, Solutia, which would enable it to exit bankruptcy. We were retained by Rick Werder and others at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver &...