Many of our engagements involve matters in which our clients face significant public attention. The following is a list of news stories about the firm, our clients, cases and the results we have achieved.
Kobre & Kim became the first firm composed of English barristers and solicitors and U.S.-qualified lawyers to be licensed in the United Kingdom as a legal disciplinary practice (LDP) under the new rules governing the legal profession that came into effect March 2009.
Kobre & Kim prevailed against the U.S. government in the representation of Tiger Eye Investments Ltd., an investment company located in the Cayman Islands, before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.
Kobre & Kim represents Mrs. Atkins Mersentes, widow of the late Atkins Diet creator Dr. Robert Atkins, in a series of litigations against three former co-trustees of the Veronica Atkins Marital Trust.
Kobre & Kim achieved an exceptional result for Haisong Jiang, a Chinese Ph.D student at Rutgers University in New Jersey, who was charged with breaching security at Newark Liberty International Airport on January 3, 2010.
Kobre & Kim represents two defendants in a case against 22 executives and employees of military and law enforcement supply companies brought under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
Kobre & Kim represents Philip Baker, managing director of collapsed Chicago hedge fund Lake Shore Asset Management Ltd., in connection with allegations by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois of securities fraud, wire fraud, and related crimes. Kobre & Kim lawyers also managed the extradition of our client from Germany to the U.S.
In the biggest insider trading case involving hedge funds in history and the first ever to employ wiretaps, Kobre & Kim represents a hedge fund manager in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York prosecutions of the Galleon insider trading case.
Kobre & Kim represents a private client in connection with a federal investigation regarding an alleged scheme to bribe Nigerian government officials to obtain engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contracts.
Kobre & Kim represented MAXAM Absolute Return Fund in connection with attempts to recover US $280 million investments in the Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC fraud, and defense against potential lawsuits by investors in MAXAM-managed funds, as well as associated purported class actions.
Kobre & Kim represented a hedge fund administrator in successfully compelling arbitration of two derivative actions in New York state in connection with the administrator's work for a Madoff Securities feeder fund.
Kobre & Kim successfully persuaded the Pennsylvania appellate courts to vacate the conviction of a client charged with a serious felony and to grant a new trial on less-serious charges.
Kobre & Kim represents a public official of the New York City Department of Education charged in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York with alleged bribery and extortion in connection with an alleged decades-long conspiracy involving the assignment and inspection of school bus routes.
Kobre & Kim represents a former top officer of Monster, the parent of job-search website Monster.com, in connection with a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation and derivative litigation arising from alleged backdating of employee stock options grants.
In one of the most talked-about hedge fund collapses of recent times, Kobre & Kim represents Brian Hunter, the former head of Energy Trading for US $9 billion hedge fund Amaranth Advisors LLC, in civil litigation and U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) regulatory enforcement actions for alleged market manipulation of natural gas futures.
