LEWIS BAACH KAUFMANN MIDDLEMISS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- President
- Senior Counsel
- the Execution Paradox: When a Doctor Is Not a Doctor
Katherine Toomey was interviewed about the President's latest travel ban proclamation and observed that the new ban might signal future "policy changes and reciprocal restrictions on U.S. travel." She added "I think that what we're seeing is uncertainty in the future about how many foreigners may be able to come over here for business purposes, whether for hiring or meetings or conferences and the extent to which that will have to be navigated by general counsels."
A. Katherine Toomey, moderated a panel on International Insolvency at the meeting of the International Business Law Consortium. The panel discussion focused on ancillary assistance in the context of international insolvency through Chapter 15 of the United States Bankruptcy Code, European Union law, and comity. Lisbon, Portugal. October 6, 2007
Katherine Toomey was interviewed about renewed Chamber of Commerce efforts to obtain disclosure of third party funding arrangements for litigation. She noted that the process of obtaining funding can be helpful "because oftentimes you are engaging in a real testing of the strength of the case. . . You have people who are very knowledgeable and are interested in making sure they're making a good investment, asking you some very hard questions about the weakest parts of your case. So the cases that make it through are stronger for the process."
Job Titles:
- Executive
- Partner
- Co - Chaired the Panel "Covid - 19 Fraud
Adam Kaufmann practices in the areas of white-collar crime, asset tracing and recovery, investigations, complex commercial fraud, and judgment enforcement. He has handled civil, criminal, and investigative matters on behalf of U.S. and international clients, both individuals and companies, throughout the world. These include high-profile multi-jurisdictional criminal matters and complex civil matters both in the United States and through coordinated legal strategies in multiple jurisdictions. Mr. Kaufmann is a recognized expert in international criminal law, corruption, and fraud, and has lectured on these topics in jurisdictions around the world and has testified twice before the United States Senate.
High-profile clients facing exposure to reputational, regulatory and criminal risk have turned to Mr. Kaufmann for assistance. He provided counsel to Mark Cuban and the Dallas Mavericks basketball team when allegations of sexual harassment within the Mavericks organization were published in Sports Illustrated. Mr. Kaufmann coordinated the independent investigation on behalf of the organization, communicated with NBA senior executives, and helped guide the team to a successful resolution of the matter. Mr. Kaufmann represented Manhattan art dealer Michael Shvo who was accused of a $3.5 million tax fraud, obtaining a non-jail settlement of all charges. He also represented former New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer when Mr. Spitzer was first blackmailed and then accused of crimes by a Russian national, ensuring that the blackmailer was prosecuted and Mr. Spitzer was exonerated. In other criminal matters, Mr. Kaufmann represented a Long Island-based engineering company with 300+ employees charged in a bribery case in Manhattan, and obtained a deferred prosecution agreement for the company. In international matters, he has represented a number of Brazilian individuals and companies implicated in the Brazilian Lavo Jato ("Car Wash") investigation, as well as U.S. citizens and foreign nationals charged with FCPA, corruption, and money laundering conspiracies by the U.S. Department of Justice. Many of those matters involve the coordination of legal defenses in multiple jurisdictions working closely with foreign counsel. In 2018, Mr. Kaufmann was selected as an expert in Business Crimes Law by Global Expert.
Mr. Kaufmann also represents clients seeking to identify, trace, and recover stolen assets, and has brought numerous actions seeking discovery in support of foreign litigation and asset recovery pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1782. He has represented clients tracing assets all over the world, including the representation of two sovereign states of Mexico seeking to recover funds stolen by former public officials. Mr. Kaufmann has been recognized for Asset Recovery by Who's Who Legal and Chambers and Partners. In civil and arbitration matters, Mr. Kaufmann has worked on numerous complex fraud and business dispute matters. He negotiated a favorable settlement for a civil client in a civil clawback action brought by the court-appointed receiver in a multi-hundred million dollar Ponzi scheme and has counseled numerous clients on aspects of U.S. law in international arbitral matters.
Adam Kaufmann co-chaired the panel "Covid-19 fraud: law enforcement and where we are now."
Adam Kaufmann was quoted in CBS News on the potential repercussions for Donald Trump if the former president fails to pay his $464 million civil fraud judgment.
Adam Kaufmann joined Dan Abrams on NewsNation to discuss the use and credibility of Michael Cohen as a witness in the Trump hush money case.
Adam Kaufmann was quoted in the Wall Street Journal on one of the assistant attorneys general working with Manhattan prosecutors on the probe into the former president.
Adam S. Kaufmann, who served as chief of the office's investigative division, said that "it really suggests they've reached a point in their investigation where the district attorney believes there's evidence of a crime. You don't empanel a special grand jury unless you think you have a viable case."
Adam Kaufmann was quoted in an analytical piece on Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance's investigation into Trump and his organization.
Partner Adam Kaufmann was quoted in ProPublica's article on the Manhattan district attorney's criminal investigation of the Trump Organization and its focus on CFO Allen Weisselberg.
Job Titles:
- Managing Partner
- Managing Partner of LBKM's Washington Office, Was Featured in Law.Com 's "How I Made It" Series
Aisha Bembry, managing partner of LBKM's Washington office, was featured in Law.com's "How I Made It" series.
Job Titles:
- Reporters from AUNO Legal Magazine
Former President Donald Trump's company and its Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg were indicted on 15 criminal charges Thursday for allegedly evading about $900,000 in taxes with the help of the Trump Organization and its payroll corporation. Yamiche Alcindor reports with Adam Kaufmann, former prosecutor and chief of the investigative division in the Manhattan district attorney's office.
Ms. Conrad's practice focuses on commercial litigation and white collar defense and investigations.
Prior to joining Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss, Ms. Conrad was an associate at an international law firm in New York where she represented clients involved in complex commercial litigation, white collar criminal defense and investigations and internal investigations. Her prior pro bono work focused primarily on representing asylum seekers from Latin America and Afghanistan seeking refuge in the United States.
Experience
Litigation Associate, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Judicial Intern, Honorable Timothy Hillman, United States District Court, District of Massachusetts
Law Clerk, Office of Senator Ed Markey, Washington, D.C.
Job Titles:
- Managing Partner
- Corporate Counsel Regarding the September 27, 2019 Consent Order Entered by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Detailing Corruption Offenses by Barclays PLC.
Arthur D. Middlemiss practices in the area of financial crimes compliance. Mr. Middlemiss focuses on providing strategic counsel to foreign and domestic entities seeking to mitigate regulatory, criminal and reputational risk in the areas of anti-money laundering (AML), anti-bribery and corruption (ABC) and economic sanctions. Mr. Middlemiss has represented individuals and corporations in criminal investigations, investigated alleged violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and advised financial and other companies with respect to best practices in the fields of AML and ABC compliance. He has served multiple times as an AML expert for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Middlemiss was the Director of the Global Anti-Corruption Program at JPMorgan Chase & Co, responsible for designing and executing an enterprise-wide compliance program to mitigate corruption-related risk. Mr. Middlemiss also held multiple senior positions in the bank's Anti-Money Laundering Program. Among them, Mr. Middlemiss headed the firm's Financial Intelligence Unit, a group formed to develop strategies to identify and confront proactively emergent money laundering-related risk, including that posed by human trafficking.
Arthur Middlemiss spoke to Corporate Counsel regarding the September 27, 2019 consent order entered by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission detailing corruption offenses by Barclays PLC.
Art Middlemiss heads a team of attorneys representing Good Morning America Co-Anchor, Lara Spencer against the fraudulent use of her name and likeness in skincare ads. "If I tell you that I'm selling you one thing, but I really sell you another thing, that's fraud," Middlemiss told GMA. "I'm telling you that I'm selling you a product that's endorsed by a celebrity, when it hasn't been endorsed by a celebrity. That's a fraud."
Bloomberg reported on the extradition hearing of Julian Assange, quoting senior partner Eric Lewis' expert testimony.
Bob Menendez was indicted for the second time in 10 years. How the new case compares to 2015
"Unlike in the last case, here, the government is alleging substantial payments made to Menendez and his wife in the form of cash, gold bars, and other direct gifts, such as a luxury car, by three businessmen," Scholl said. "Further, the government is alleging that it has better proof of direct things that Menendez and his wife did for those who paid them."
Job Titles:
- Counsel
- Practice Contact
- Professionals
Brett Walter is counsel to the firm with a focus on international general corporate, restructuring and transactional matters. His experience includes more than six years as General Counsel for a Middle Eastern holding company where he is supervising the financial restructuring and settlement of approximately $6 billion in liabilities, managing the company's legal function, and advising the Board and executive management on a wide variety of strategic and governance matters. His experience also includes leading dozens of international corporate and financial transactions relating to asset purchases and sales, joint venture formation and termination, franchising, and multinational services and logistics arrangements. Mr. Walter has counseled overseas clients on technology, real estate, and other investments within the United States and abroad, and he advises domestic and international clients on company formation and asset structuring and protection.
Mr. Walter also has years of successful experience representing clients in business disputes in the United States and abroad. He has managed complex international commercial litigation in 15 countries and has negotiated the settlement of hundreds of millions of dollars of claims for his clients.
Mr. Walter's years of wide-ranging and varied domestic and international experience have given him a deep appreciation of the complex interplay between the initial structuring of a corporate transaction and its effective implementation. His litigation experience also gives him insight into how best to structure a deal to protect the client's interests in the event of a commercial dispute. His clients benefit from his understanding not only of the differences in the laws between countries but also the myriad cultural and practical distinctions that are critical to successful problem solving.
Experience
General Counsel, Ahmad Hamad Algosaibi & Bros. (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia) (2014-present)
Associate then Partner, Lewis Baach PLLC (2005-2014)
Associate, Morrison & Foerster LLP (2000-2005)
Representative Matters
Negotiated and completed $160 million asset sale to partner in multinational consumer goods manufacturing business
Negotiated and completed joint venture agreement with international partner in pipeline manufacturing and service business
Job Titles:
- of Counsel
- Counsel With LBKM
- Fellow of the American Bar Foundation
Carol R. Van Cleef is of counsel with LBKM. She has over 40 years' experience as a lawyer and consultant in the financial services industry, including more than 20 years as a partner in AML 100 law firms. Ms. Van Cleef counsels a wide range of clients on blockchain, fintech and related compliance issues. In addition to advising on a number of rapidly evolving issues involving decentralized finance (DeFi), stablecoins, central bank digital currencies, token issuances and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), she has an expertise in federal and state banking and money transmitter regulation, anti-money laundering and sanctions compliance, and other payments-related issues.
Ms. Van Cleef is a past president of Women in Housing and Finance and currently chairs the Digital Asset and Blockchain Forum. She is founding member of the Association of Women in Crypto. She is a member of the board of directors of the not-for-profit Travel Rule Information Sharing Alliance (TRISA), and participates in a number of other trade-related groups.
She created and chairs the annual Crypto Summit at the Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crimes. She is also a founder of the Cambridge Crypto Compliance Consortium. She is a frequent speaker on cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology, virtual currencies, payment systems, and related compliance issues.
Ms. Van Cleef is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. She is also a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS).
She was honored to be named to Forbes' inaugural 50 Over 50 (Investment).
Professional Affiliations
Fellow, American Bar Foundation
Chair, Digital Asset and Blockchain Forum
Founding Member, Association of Women in Crypto
Founder, Cambridge Crypto Compliance Consortium
Carol Van Cleef provided analysis in Money Laundering Bulletin on attempts by regulators to bring the cryptocurrency sector under AML/CFT control.
Carol Van Cleef was quoted in Money Laundering Bulletin on the dynamic compliance frontline of sanctions enforcement.
Ms. Spector-Naranjo is an experienced and effective advocate with a diverse litigation practice that includes commercial litigation, complex international disputes, and financial fraud in federal and state trial court and appellate proceedings.
Recently lauded by the former Chief Judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida for her "persuasive and eloquent" presentation on behalf of her clients,[1] Ms. Spector-Naranjo has over 15 years of experience advising and advocating for U.S. and foreign clients involved in a wide range of domestic and cross-border disputes. Ms. Spector-Naranjo has successfully litigated matters involving allegations of breach of contract, negligence, and fraud, and has helped clients to navigate and understand complex matters of U.S. criminal and civil law and procedure.
Ms. Spector-Naranjo also has extensive experience representing individuals and companies in connection with U.S. regulatory agency investigations, obtaining U.S. discovery in aid of foreign proceedings, obtaining licenses for transactions subject to sanctions programs administered by the Office of Foreign Asset Control, and representing clients pursuing whistleblower complaints to the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding securities law violations by multi-national companies.
Ms. Spector-Naranjo also advises clients on compliance with U.S. laws, including U.S. export controls, financial sanctions programs, the USA PATRIOT Act, and laws regulating lenders.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Senior Vice Chair
- Appointed Partner
- Co - Chair of the International Bar Association 's Business Crime Committee
- Global Leader
- Organising Committee Head for the 22nd Transnational Crime Conference in Buenos Aires.
- Recognized As Global Leader in Investigations by Who 's Who Legal for 2021
- Recognized As Global Leader in Investigations by Who 's Who Legal for 2022
- Senior Vice Chair of the IBA 's Business
Cristián Francos is Senior Vice Chair of the IBA's Business Crime Committee and will be co-chairing "The transfer of criminal liability in M&A" session on November 3rd.
Partner Cristián Francos will co-chair a session on trends in global sanctions enforcement at the International Bar Association's 25th Annual Transnational Crime Conference.
Who's Who Legal (WWL) has again recognized Cristián Francos as a global leader in the field of investigations. WWL highlights lawyers at the forefront of the investigations field, spanning white-collar crime, corporate compliance and regulatory enforcement.
Cristián Francos, partner at Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss and head of the firm's Latin America practice, has again been recognized by Who's Who Legal as a global leader in the field of investigations.
The International Bar Association (IBA) has appointed partner Cristián Francos as Co-Chair of its Business Crime Committee for a two-year term.
Cristián Francos appointed as Senior Vice Chair of the International Bar Association's Business Crime Committee
LBKM partner Cristián Francos has been appointed as Senior Vice Chair of the IBA's Business Crime Committee.
Cristián Francos been recognized as a Global Leader in Who's Who Legal: Investigations 2021. Who's Who Legal is one of the world's leading directories of legal practitioners.
Partner Cristián Francos was highlighted by Global Investigations Review as a lawyer of note and a member of Argentina's investigations bar.
Mr. Short's practice focuses on commercial litigation, complex international disputes, and financial fraud. He has represented companies, municipalities, and individual persons in federal and state trial and appellate courts, including the New York Court of Appeals. This includes experience representing plaintiffs and defendants in False Claims Act, contract, civil rights, product liability, and intellectual property litigation. Mr. Short has also advised clients on pre-litigation matters in connection with government investigations and private disputes.
Experience
Senior Associate at an Am Law 200 firm in New York
Staff Attorney on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Ms. Vélez has extensive experience in complex commercial litigation and international arbitration. She represents clients in federal and state court and has worked on a broad range of commercial disputes involving complex financial instruments, business torts, health care, bankruptcy, environmental regulations, trade secrets, copyright, and constitutional issues. Ms. Vélez has arbitrated in commercial and Investor-State proceedings involving both international and foreign law.
Throughout her career, Ms. Vélez has counseled domestic and international clients from numerous industries, including financial institutions, energy companies, media companies, retail companies, and insurance providers. She is involved in all aspects of her cases, ranging from discovery and dispositive motions to litigation.
Ms. Vélez has an expertise on the issue of personal jurisdiction and has litigated the issue in a number of cross-border matters under the laws of various states.
Prior to joining LBKM, Ms. Vélez was an associate at a large New York law firm.
Elizabeth Torrent Sheldon practices in the areas of insurance and reinsurance. Ms. Sheldon represents domestic and foreign insurers and reinsurers with respect to a variety of insurance related matters and provides coverage opinions, case resolution strategy and where necessary, representation in mediation, arbitration and litigation.
Professional Affiliations
District of Columbia Bar Association
American Bar Association
Experience
Law Clerk to the Honorable Vanessa Ruiz, District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Practice Areas
Insurance
Job Titles:
- Founding Partner
- President - Elect
- Senior Partner
- Partner, Told Law360 That the Civil Division Is Likely the Branch of the DOJ Most in Need of a Morale Boost
- Washington Lawyer
Eric Lewis appeared on Corporate Counsel Business Journal's daily podcast, In House Warrior, to discuss extradition, OFAC sanctions, and what to expect from the Biden administration.
"It's overwhelmingly staffed by career people who have really suffered through the last four years, and they've lost a lot of good people too," he said. "These are people who just want to do their job and not impose any ideology."
Eric Lewis was quoted in Law360 on President-elect Joe Biden's selection of Merrick Garland as the next attorney general.
Eric Lewis was quoted in The Washington Post on the allegations in the whistleblower complaint recently filed against President Trump.
Eric Lewis of Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss writes: Good lawyers don't get stuck in boxes. They are problem solvers who bring judgment and experience to their clients' issues, whoever those clients may be. They try to prevent economic interests from affecting their service to clients. They earn trust. Satisfaction in the law can be, and should be, measured in more than one way.
Eric Lewis says Donald Trump is giving credence to those who stigmatize America's Muslims. He says such rhetoric is hateful and dangerous.
Job Titles:
- Welcomed As Fellow of the International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators
Com minha experiência como promotor em Nova York, acompanho a Lava-Jato com otimismo. Agora, falta viabilizar acordos de leniência que punam empresas corruptas, mas não as liquidem Página Aberta, May 17, 2017 Cases Illustrate Weaknesses in N.Y. Theft Statutes and Need for Reform New York Law Journal, September 26, 2016
Fayez Al Kandari was released from Guantanamo today to the custody of the Government of Kuwait who transported him today to his home country of Kuwait.
Fayis al-Kandari has been held without charge for 14 years in US prison in Cuba, where he was allegedly tortured.
"My view is that while the law allows the prosecutor to play it close to the vest, it seems that best practice and fairness requires they reveal - to the extent they know - what the crimes are," said Marc F. Scholl, who served in the district attorney's office for nearly four decades in both trial and senior investigative roles. "And because it's a matter of such public interest," he added of the Trump case, "you really want to show the world you're not hiding anything."
Mr. Gordon has over thirty-five years of experience representing domestic and foreign interests in complex business disputes throughout the United States. A significant portion of his practice includes commercial arbitration and related judicial proceedings. He has litigated a broad range of subject matters, including purchase price disputes and indemnification claims arising out of the purchase and sale of businesses, disputes under partnership and joint venture agreements, claims arising from the purchase and sale of securities, accounting matters and contract interpretation.
In addition, since the mid-1990s, Mr. Gordon has devoted a substantial portion of his practice to insurance and reinsurance matters. He advises clients with respect to property and casualty, professional liability, financial institutions, D&O, E&O, bad faith, aviation, clash, contingency, excess of loss, retrocessional, facultative, pools, aggregate extension, accumulation, allocation, ECO/XPL exposures, and other issues. In addition to his representation of insurers and reinsurers, Mr. Gordon also serves as an arbitrator with respect to reinsurance disputes.
He has been recognized by Chambers USA. He has also been recognized by Legal 500 in the area of Litigation-International Arbitration.
Mr. Davenport practices in the area of complex commercial litigation, including disputes involving securities and other commercial frauds, environmental and other insurance coverage, pharmaceutical, medical, and industrial products liability, engineering and construction incidents, and medical and legal malpractice. Mr. Davenport has particular expertise in scientific and technical litigation and has tried civil and commercial lawsuits in more than twenty states and in international arbitration proceedings.
Mr. Davenport has developed and draws on technical aptitude in a wide spectrum of disciplines including medicine and pharmacology, electrical-mechanical, chemical, and hydrogeological engineering, epidemiology, and biostatistics. Mr. Davenport's special interest has long been the examination and cross-examination of expert witnesses.
Experience
Court Law Clerk, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1969-1970)
Staff Counsel, United States Senate Committee on the District of Columbia (1970-1971)
Mr. Robinson works in areas where traditional law and litigation intersect with public policy and politics. Clients have called on him to litigate complex commercial and civil rights matters, respond to governmental and congressional investigations, develop legislative strategies, and address media inquiries. He has the expertise and experience of a litigator as well as those of a government affairs practitioner. An example of Mr. Robinson's work at the intersection of law and politics is his work on behalf of Vice President Al Gore during the 2000 election Florida vote-count challenge where he served as both trial counsel and a media surrogate.
Among other matters, Mr. Robinson played a leading role, with his partner Eric Lewis, in obtaining a $1 billion judgment on behalf of the liquidators of a failed United Kingdom based bank in a RICO action against a bank front man. (BCCI Holdings (Luxembourg), S.A. v. Abdul Raouf Hasan Khalil.) He has been active in litigation and other matters involving the District of Columbia government, achieving a favorable settlement for a national health care services provider in the then largest health care fraud investigation conducted by the District of Columbia Inspector General and representing senior District of Columbia officials in various investigations. An experienced civil rights litigator, Mr. Robinson was lead counsel in the case establishing that racially targeted predatory lending is a violation of the Fair Housing Act.
In non-litigation matters, Mr. Robinson counsels lawyers and law firms, as well as other professionals and their firms, on sensitive governance, professional employment, and ethical issues. He played a major role in the firm's successful state and federal legislative effort on asbestos litigation reform and has represented numerous individuals in responding to inquiries from congressional investigating committees. He serves as General Counsel to the firm.
Jeffrey Robinson was on the Gore legal team back then. He talks to KCRW about how the current challenges might proceed.
Jeff Robinson comments to Politico on new litigation filed by Lewis Baach on behalf of two journalists against the Trump administration. The new suit contends that plaintiffs Zaidan and Kareem have been mistakenly included on the U.S. "kill list." And must have a mechanism to challenge their status. "This is a very deliberate process that needs to give some access to people who deny they should be included," Robinson said.
Jeffrey Tenenbaum, head of the nonprofit practice at the DC-based law firm Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss PLLC, was quoted in this article in The Chronicle of Philanthropy on the steps nonprofit organizations can take to mitigate risk associated with fundraising.
Jessica Buckwalter has a broad litigation and arbitration practice focusing primarily on employment and labor law, international disputes, complex financial disputes, and insurance. Her practice encompasses counseling, litigation in federal and state courts and all forms of dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration. Ms. Buckwalter is committed to providing exceptional client service. She is dedicated to strategic analysis, seeking practical solutions for clients when feasible, and, when not, aggressively litigating disputes to achieve favorable outcomes. She understands that responsiveness and partnering with clients is critical to solid and enduring business relationships.
Ms. Buckwalter has almost 25 years of experience litigating all types of employment, commercial and civil cases. In her employment and labor law practice, Ms. Buckwalter advises and represents employers in a broad range of employment matters arising under various state and federal laws. She has extensive experience defending management in litigation involving wrongful termination, workplace harassment, retaliation, discrimination, wage and hour issues, defamation, other employment torts and breach of contract. She regularly practices in federal and state courts, and practices before administrative agencies such as the Department of Fair Employment and Housing and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Ms. Buckwalter also frequently advises employers on the multitude of issues that arise under the employment relationship, such as: employee hiring and termination, workplace investigations, litigation avoidance, compliance with EEO requirements, and worker classification.
Ms. Buckwalter's practice also focuses on litigating all types of commercial disputes, including disputes arising out of complex financial frauds. She has successfully litigated matters involving allegations of breach of contract, negligence, and fraud, including security fraud involving subprime mortgages and structured financial products. Ms. Buckwalter also represents domestic and foreign insurers on a number of significant insurance litigation issues, including asbestos, environmental, health hazard and bad faith claims.
Through her extensive experience dealing with discovery issues in complex litigation, Ms. Buckwalter has developed substantial knowledge and proficiency in the area of electronic discovery. Ms. Buckwalter provides focused guidance and expertise on information governance and electronic discovery matters to Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss' lawyers and their clients, including providing case and client-specific advice about meeting preservation obligations, addressing "meet and confer" obligations, and attending court appearances that address eDiscovery matters.
Ms. Lee is an associate in the firm's New York office. Her practice focuses on white collar defense and investigations, sanctions compliance and complex commercial litigation.
Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Lee was an associate in the International Arbitration group of an international law firm in New York. She represented clients in international commercial and investment arbitrations in a wide variety of disputes, including intellectual property, construction, insurance, commercial, and corporate governance issues.
The Times of London reported on the extradition hearing of Julian Assange, quoting senior partner Eric Lewis' expert testimony.
Giuliani Admission 'Another Good Fact' For Trump Prosecutor Rudy Giuliani's admission that he falsely accused two Georgia poll workers of rigging the 2020 election likely won't shield him from discovery requests in the defamation case and could even aid federal prosecutors in their election-interference probe of former President Donald Trump, experts say. Marc Scholl of Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss PLLC [said], "It raises questions as to why Giuliani made these concessions and what discovery material that Giuliani has failed to produce may hold as to his culpability and the culpability of others, including Trump." Law360, July 27, 2023
Ms. Clark's practice focuses on the areas of commercial litigation and complex international disputes and commercial transactions. She represents domestic and foreign clients on a wide variety of corporate and litigation matters, including US sanctions laws administered by the Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control.
Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Clark worked as a staff attorney at Central California Legal Services on the Family and Immigration Team.
Experience
Staff Attorney, Central California Legal Services
Practice Areas
International Disputes
Li has extensive litigation experience representing multinational clients in both criminal and civil matters, including multijurisdictional civil litigations, white collar defense matters, and class actions. Her litigation experience covers both state and federal courts, and extends across various industries including technology, financial services, pharmaceuticals, and manufacturing.
In addition, Li handles enforcement actions before government agencies and regulatory bodies, including the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Commerce, and the Department of the Treasury. Li also has substantial experience advising clients in connection with internal investigations, including investigations involving violations of antitrust laws, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and corporate governance and compliance reviews.
Li is a native speaker of Mandarin Chinese and fluent in Japanese. When working in Shanghai and Tokyo, she represented multinational corporations and individual executives on high-profile multijurisdictional criminal matters and complex civil matters in the United States, and she also coordinated legal strategies with local counsel in foreign jurisdictions.
Marc Frazier Scholl's career as a public servant in law enforcement spanned nearly four decades, both as a criminal prosecutor with the District Attorney, New York County and as an investigator of public corruption with the Inspector General of the State of New York. At the District Attorney's office he was a senior assistant whose career spanned the Appeals, Trial, and Investigation Divisions. His last role there was as Senior Investigative Counsel investigating and prosecuting complex white collar criminal activity, many of national and international note, as well as Counsel to the Investigation Division, providing advice and direction to his colleagues in pursuing investigations. His 35-year career with the office, appearing in federal and state courts, involved primary roles in hundreds of appellate and trial court cases. For several years, he was also the director of civil litigation there, in which role he supervised and appeared in numerous state and federal civil litigation involving civil rights, tort, habeas corpus, subpoenas, and discovery disputes.
Former New York prosecutor Marc Scholl told Law360 that Judge Chutkan is "well-equipped" to make calls on whether Trump violated either of the requirements in question in the gag order based on the statements themselves, the "context in which any potentially violative statements are made, and any evidence that the parties wish to present."
Marion Circuit Judge Sheryl Lynch awarded $538,000 in attorney fees to plaintiffs who sued the DOC to obtain records pertaining to the lethal injection protocols that would be used at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City in the event an execution was carried out. Lynch's order was issued Wednesday.
Mr. Leimkuhler has a broad commercial litigation and arbitration practice focusing primarily on complex insurance and reinsurance coverage issues and securities disputes. His practice encompasses counseling as well as litigation and appellate work before federal and state courts and arbitration panels. For nearly 25 years he has represented London Market and North American insurers and reinsurers on a wide variety of coverage matters. Through his representation of insurers on pollution claims, Mr. Leimkuhler has developed substantial expertise investigating historical environmental practices and knowledge of large industrial insureds. He also has extensive experience litigating and counseling on asbestos, health hazard, pharmaceutical, professional liability, directors and officers, construction defect, property, and other claims. In addition, Mr. Leimkuhler has expertise in insurance allocation issues, and in litigating claims of misrepresentation and nondisclosure in the placement of insurance policies. In one such matter, Mr. Leimkuhler served as lead counsel for a group of insurers in a trial that secured a judgment rescinding policies and disallowing $70 million in claims. He also litigates claims of fraud or other misconduct in connection with the sale of structured financial products.
Mr. Leimkuhler has successfully litigated other matters involving allegations of fraud, breach of contract, professional negligence, interference with property rights, and discrimination in employment and public accommodations. He was co-lead counsel in a national class action on behalf of plaintiffs who alleged that they were denied equal access to health club memberships on account of race, which resulted in one of the largest settlements in a public accommodations discrimination matter.
Professional Affiliations
District of Columbia Bar
Law Firm Representative, Washington Lawyers Committee For Civil Rights & Urban Affairs (former)
Experience
Associate, Wilmer Cutler & Pickering
Representative Matters
Partner Mark Leimkuhler recently spoke with Insurance Business about the new administration's approach to climate change and the implications for the insurance industry.
Partner Mark Leimkuhler recently spoke with Law360 about the incoming Biden administration's potential effect on property and liability insurers, predicting that the new regime's expected focus on climate change, civil rights enforcement and other areas could lead to an uptick in claims across a wide range of policies.
Martin Baach has wide-ranging domestic and international experience as a litigator, mediator and leader of multi-party negotiations. In the course of a 40-year practice, Mr. Baach has established an impeccable track record in assisting clients as they navigate the most complex legal and strategic challenges. He represents London Market and domestic U.S. insurers and reinsurers, major corporations, and professionals in law and medicine, and has developed and directed national litigation strategies for both London Market Insurers and large U.S. corporations. He has represented the London Insurance Market for over thirty years, building a reputation for achieving results through litigation and negotiation while providing London Market Insurers strategic counseling and advice to develop systemic solutions to complex problems such as the asbestos litigation crisis. Mr. Baach assembled, organized, and directed a team of nationally recognized government affairs experts in successful state and federal legislative efforts.
Mohammed Soltan was convicted of financing anti-goverment protest amid proceedings his lawyers describe as ‘a Kafkaesque political show trial'
Job Titles:
- Foreign Legal Counsel
- Professionals
Ms. Hachem has more than 10 years of experience advising local and international clients in relation to corporate and commercial law, including corporate reorganization and negotiating, structuring, drafting, and reviewing complex cross-border transactions, with special expertise in mergers and acquisitions, franchising, intellectual property, public-private partnerships, employment law, private equity, and technology, media, and telecommunications. She oversees the establishment and day-to-day legal aspects of local companies, foreign branches, representative offices, and non-governmental organizations in the Middle East and other jurisdictions. Ms. Hachem also has considerable experience representing clients in commercial and real-estate conflicts before courts and arbitrators.
Ms. Hachem is fluent in Arabic, English, and French, and practices law in all three languages. She also speaks German.
Professional Affiliations
Beirut Bar Association of Lawyers
Experience
Senior associate, Lex&Co Legal Counsels
Senior associate, Abou Jaoude & Associates
External legal counsel, Hachem Rizk Law
Legal consultant, Wildgen Partners in Law
Representative Matters
Job Titles:
- Up Privileged Docs on Defunct Med Co
Solomon Shinerock focuses on achieving favorable outcomes for clients who face challenges involving white-collar crime and regulatory investigations, and also handles enforcement of foreign judgments, asset tracing and recovery matters, and complex commercial fraud cases. He has extensive experience investigating complex, multi-jurisdictional commercial transactions and tax matters, and has litigated criminal and civil cases at the trial and appellate level in federal and state courts across the country.
Mr. Shinerock spent over seven years in public service, as both a federal prosecutor in the Northern District of New York and an Assistant District Attorney at the Manhattan District Attorney's Major Economic Crimes Bureau. In those roles, he coordinated with multiple law enforcement agencies, regulatory bodies, and prosecuting offices to investigate complex fraud, tax evasion, and money laundering cases arising from domestic and cross-border transactions. He played a lead role in several high-profile matters, including as lead line prosecutor in the investigation and indictment of the Trump Organization, and the successful enforcement of a grand jury subpoena for President Trump's tax records through multiple rounds of federal appellate litigation. In recognition of his work prosecuting an international bank fraud and $35 million money laundering case involving the parent company of Newsweek, he was awarded the 2021 FinCEN Director's Law Enforcement Award in the Significant Fraud Investigation category.
Mr. Shinerock also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Harold Baer, Jr., of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and spent four years as an associate at an international law firm in New York. He has argued and briefed appeals in the U.S. Courts of Appeal in civil and criminal matters and served as lead- and co-counsel at trials and evidentiary hearings in federal and state courts. He has also negotiated criminal dispositions involving significant fines, forfeiture, and restitution amounts, and civil resolutions involving tens of millions of dollars.
Professional Affiliations
New York City Bar Association, Professional Ethics Committee, 2023
New York City Bar Association, Criminal Law Committee, 2014
Federal Bar Council, 2014
Experience
Assistant District Attorney, Major Economic Crimes Bureau, Manhattan D.A.
Assistant United States Attorney, Northern District of New York
Associate, Cadwalader, Wickersham, & Taft
Law Clerk, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Hon. Harold Baer, Jr.
Research Assistant, U.N. Committee Against Torture
Representative Matters
Solomon Shinerock joins LBKM from the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, where he worked in the Major Economic Crimes Bureau. Before that, he was an assistant U.S. attorney in the Northern District of New York.
Sumayya Khatib practices in the areas of international disputes and litigation of matters arising from the Middle East. Ms. Khatib presently assists in the representation of Saudi Arabian charities in multi-district litigation in which violations of the Anti-Terrorism Act and other intentional torts are alleged. She has also assisted in the representation of Middle Eastern parties involved in a dispute with U.S. healthcare providers concerning the quality of services provided. She is an expert in managing Arabic language document review and analysis. Ms. Khatib is a native Arabic speaker.
Job Titles:
- Leader
- Partner
- Solicitor
- Founding Director of the International Lawyers for Africa
Tim Taylor KC, former head of international arbitration in Dubai at King & Wood Mallesons, has joined the partnership at US disputes boutique Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss - but will continue to be based in the Middle East.
Mr. Taylor is a solicitor advocate who was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2011. Based in Doha and Dubai, he specializes in international commercial and investment arbitration as well as complex multi-jurisdictional litigation, cross-border insolvencies, regulatory investigations, civil fraud, and asset tracing. He has earned a reputation as a creative legal strategist as well as an experienced advocate.
Mr. Taylor represents major corporations and financial institutions, sovereign states and parastatals, high net worth individuals and heads of state, with a broad range of experience across international trade and financial services, telecoms and media, construction and banking.
He acts as an advocate both in international arbitrations under the rules of most major international arbitration institutions, as well as in the High Court in London, the DIFC Courts and the Dubai World Tribunal (DWT), and the Courts of the British Virgin Islands and Seychelles.
As an arbitrator appointed by the LCIA in Dubai and London and the ICC, Mr. Taylor has mediated a wide range of commercial disputes. He has also advised on disputes and/or appeared in arbitrations in other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain and Qatar.
He also has expertise in regulatory investigations, including those carried out by central banks and financial services regulators in European and Middle Eastern jurisdictions.
Mr. Taylor has been recognized as a leader in international arbitration, mediation and asset tracing in the Legal 500, Who's Who Legal, and Chambers Global. He is variously described as "veteran of the Dubai disputes world," a "strong and intelligent advocate," and "an extraordinary mind which allows him to bring something different to any piece of litigation."
Mr. Taylor is the founding director of the International Lawyers for Africa (ILFA) program, which aims to build legal capacity and strengthen the rule of law in Africa through placements with major law firms in the UK.
*Mr. Taylor is not admitted to practice law in the United States.
Professional Affiliations
International Bar Association
American Bar Association
LCIA
Tim Taylor K.C. is the first overseas lawyer to be featured in the Beverly Hills Bar Association's War Stories series. He will explain how the principles used in commercial mediation can also be used in the peace process, based on his experience with drafting a framework peace agreement for Darfur and working on the Peace Project in Yemen. Zoom, November 15, 2023
Chambers has again lauded Tim Taylor KC for his expertise in Dispute Resolution in the United Arab Emirates. The 2024 Global Guide notes Tim's "many years' experience of litigation work in the DIFC Courts, taking on the full gamut of international disputes, and serving clients from such sectors as financial services, hospitality, and food and beverages." February 2024
Job Titles:
- Senior International Policy Advisor
Tom Malinowski served two terms in the House of Representatives, after winning election in 2018 in New Jersey's 7th Congressional District. He was Vice Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and a member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, focusing on issues ranging from national security and the war in Ukraine, to infrastructure, clean energy, social media regulation and combatting domestic extremism.
Malinowski was born in communist Poland during the height of the Cold War, and emigrated with his mother to the United States when he was six years old. From 1994 to 2001, Malinowski served as a speechwriter for Secretaries of State Warren Christopher and Madeleine Albright, and as a senior director on President Clinton's National Security Council. As chief Washington advocate for Human Rights Watch, he worked to secure America's support for people struggling for democracy around the world, and to pass legislation ending its use of torture after the 9/11 attacks. He later served as President Obama's Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, leading America's global efforts to promote human rights. Malinowski received his B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and earned a Master of Philosophy from St. Antony's College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Job Titles:
- New York Prosecutor Known for Aggressive Pursuit of Evidence
If Trump were to try to blame Cohen during the hush money trial, prosecutors could argue that Trump should have known that his attorney "might ignore the law" based on Cohen's history, according to former New York prosecutor Marc Scholl of Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss PLLC.
LBKM partner Waleed Nassar has been recognized as a 2019 "Equality Trailblazer" by the National Law Journal in its inaugural list of top lawyers who serve as "agents of change" and have made an impact on equality through new legal strategies or innovative court cases.
The complaint was filed to the US Department of Transportation (DOT) by civil rights legal organisation Muslim Advocates and litigation specialist law firm Lewis Baach…Waleed Nassar, a partner in Lewis Baach, said: "This complaint is to ensure that a clear and unequivocal message is sent worldwide to any airline that chooses to contract with United States citizens and to offer flights to the United States: discrimination against any United States citizen on any basis - be it racial, religious, perceived ethnic origin or sexual orientation - is simply unacceptable and will not be tolerated."