Jonathan C. Cross

Counsel

Practice Description

Representative Matters

• Represented a foreign bank in connection with litigation arising out of the MBIA Insurance restructuring and alleged breaches of CDS and financial guaranty contracts.
• Obtained a $25 million New York jury verdict in favor of a Swiss bank against a large Italian bank in a fraud case arising from the sale of notes linked to a subsidiary of Parmalat.
• Obtained a $37 million judgment in favor of a non-U.S. client in connection with litigation concerning certain offshore trusts.
• Represented a non-U.S. client in defense of claims brought under the Alien Tort Statute.
• Represented a former corporate officer in defense of securities class action.
• Represented a telecommunications provider in arbitral proceedings involving breach of an agreement to sell a control stake in a foreign telecommunications provider.
• Represented a foreign industrial company in defense of antitrust class actions.
• Represented an airline in connection with a United States Department of Justice antitrust investigation.
• Represented a mutual fund in connection with regulatory investigations of potential “market timing.”
• Represented a financial institution in a State and Federal investigation of research analyst practices and in a private securities class action involving allegations of improper research analyst practices.
• Represented a broker-dealer in securities arbitrations arising from failure of Enron Corp.

Publications