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.

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Key clients

  • BASF Corporation
  • Veolia S.A.
  • Yale University
  • Bank of Montreal
  • Citibank
  • Northrop Grumman
  • HSBC
  • The American Trucking Association
  • Cargill
  • Banque Pictet
  • Google
  • 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