PricewaterhouseCoopers agrees to $55 Million Madoff Feeder Fund settlement
By Celia Ampel, From Daily Business Review Two PricewaterhouseCoopers divisions agreed to pay $55 million to victims of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme who invested through feeder funds. PwC Canada and PwC Netherlands were the last remaining defendants in a seven-year…
Raising red card, Kirkland partner quits FIFA probe
By Nathalie Pierrepont, From The Am Law Daily Michael Garcia is taking himself off the pitch. After two years at the helm of a high-profile probe into a controversial process that awarded the next two World Cups, the former top…
Two ex-Goldman Sachs employees suffer courtroom defeats
From David Bario, The Litigation Daily Armed with lawyers from Boies, Schiller & Flexner and O’Melveny & Myers, Goldman Sachs & Co. scored back-to-back victories on Wednesday against former employees who burned their bridges with the investment banking behemoth in…