Dechert Wins Three American Lawyer Global Legal Awards

Dechert LLP, a global specialist law firm, has been recognized by The American Lawyer’s Global Legal Awards for cross-border excellence on three separate matters, each of which is now eligible for a grand prize in its respective category that will be awarded this fall.

“We are extremely proud of these awards, which recognize the innovative and cutting edge legal work we undertake on behalf of all of our clients,” said Dechert Chief Executive Officer Daniel O’Donnell.

Dechert’s long and ongoing representation of NML Capital (an affiliate of Elliott Management) in its dispute with Argentina – a matter in which NML recently obtained two very favorable results in the U.S. Supreme Court – won the Litigation Global Dispute of the Year, U.S. Litigation subcategory and is now a finalist for Litigation Global Dispute of the Year. Robert Cohen and Dennis Hranitzky lead this worldwide effort that includes partners Steven Engel, Vernon Francis, Andrew Hearn, Josh Hess, Xavier Nyssen, Richard Temko, and José-Manuel García Represa; retired partner Charles Poret; counsel Debra O’Gorman; national partner Francesca Albert; associates Meredith Bloch, Mariel Bronen, Kevin Brost, Carolyne Dilgard, Jennings Durand, Sarah Fidler, Daphne Ha, Jocelyn Hanamirian, Collin Hessney, Lauren Kurtz, Sarah Lyons, Galia Porat, Keely Rankin, Ana Carolina Silva, Delphine Srebnik, James Wald and Catherine Wigglesworth.

Winning the subcategory award for Global Finance Deal of Year, Restructuring and Insolvency, Middle East, and now a finalist for Global Finance Deal of the Year, was the firm’s work for Standard Chartered Bank as secured creditor for Arcapita Bank. This deal was the first Chapter 11 restructuring of a Middle Eastern financial institution which also involved a concurrent provisional liquidation in the Cayman Islands which not only involved US bankruptcy law, but UK law, Cayman Islands law, and Shari’ah law. Brian Greer led the team representing Standard Chartered Bank with significant contributions by Michael Sage. Also working on this matter were partners Antony Dutton and Wayne Rapozo and associate Javad Husein.

The winner in the subcategory Global Pro Bono Deal of the Year, Social Enterprise, was the firm’s efforts with the Eleos Foundation, and specifically for innovative work impacting the smallholder cacao farming industry in Belize. Kevin Scanlan is the lead partner for this matter with contributions by partners Michael Hirschfeld and Howard Kleinman; and associates Nicholas DiLorenzo, Steven Kirberger, Kevin O'Brien, Michelle Peters and Bernardo Piereck de Sa.

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