It is not often that a Second Circuit ruling is hailed as "the greatest legal achievement in national history" by a country's president, but that's what happened after a team from Sullivan & Cromwell LLP convinced the appellate panel to nix an $18 billion judgment against Argentina.
Large corporate restructurings increasingly feature deals that let most creditors participate but on starkly different terms, reflecting how the rise of powerful equity sponsors has shaped debt workouts both in and out of court, according to a recent paper by Robert Miller, a professor at the University of South Dakota School of Law.
EEW American Offshore Structures Inc., a builder of foundations for offshore wind turbines, has tapped a team of lawyers from Connell Foley LLP to guide it through a Chapter 11 proceeding it launched in the wake of a canceled offshore wind energy project and litigation with a landlord.