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.
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