Alumnus Christopher Lawrence ’99 joins Akin Gump’s financial restructuring practice and global debt finance team as partner. Akin Gump’s financial restructuring practice is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading restructuring groups, with valuable bench depth and experience. Mr. Lawrence’s practice focuses on the representation of insurance companies, banks, investment funds and other lenders in a wide range of secured and unsecured debt and equity financing transactions. This includes private placement financings, mezzanine financings, first and second lien debt financings, “one-stop” and unitranche financings, private equity fund investments and private securities offerings. In the past, he has represented lenders…
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Professor Catherine Powell co-authored an op-ed for Just Security regarding women rights under the Trump administration. We do not know yet whether 2018 will be the “year of the woman” in the midterm elections, but it’s worth reflecting on one of several particularly low points for women’s rights this past year. President Donald Trump’s policy of separating parents crossing the southern border from their children opened a new front in his efforts to demonize immigrants – using not only racial stereotypes, but also gender tropes. … Even before he took office, he announced a travel ban on Muslims and labeled…
A Fordham Law Review article on immigration policy written by Professor Joseph Landau was mentioned in The Hill. “This authority, which gives the Attorney General the ability ‘to assert control over the BIA and effect profound changes in legal doctrine,’ while providing ‘the Department of Justice final say in adjudicated matters of immigration policy,’ represents an additional avenue for the advancement of executive branch immigration policy that is already firmly embodied in practice and regulations,” the article said, quoting a Fordham Law Review article written by Joseph Landau. Read full article.
Fordham Law Visiting Professor Danielle Citron ’94 appeared in a Wall Street Journal video where she discusses what constitutes online harassment. Shaming, and that cycle of shaming, can very easily cross the line into the very kind of stalking threats, privacy invasions and defamation, and technical attacks that should be criminalized. Watch full video.
Alumni Paul Robinson ’83, Douglas Davis ‘98, Julian Petty ’06, and Adam Zia ’04 were named to Billboard’s 2018 Top Music Lawyers list. PAUL ROBINSON, 60 Executive vp/general counsel, Warner Music Group; Fordham University School of Law Robinson, along with WMG CFO Eric Levin, led a team of over 50 executives companywide to pay out $126 million in royalties from the funds that WMG received from the sale of its Spotify shares after the streaming service went public in April. “We sold all of our shares between April 2 and June 30, and we wanted to be in a position…
David A. Andelman, visiting scholar at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, wrote an op-ed for Reuters regarding President Trump’s recent announcement that the U.S. would withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) with Russia, a landmark 1987 agreement signed by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev to remove nuclear weapons from Europe. Trump’s Oct. 20 announcement that Washington would withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) with Russia, a landmark 1987 agreement signed by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev to remove nuclear weapons from Europe, eliminates whatever curbs may be left on the development and deployment…
Alumnus Matt Higgins ’02 was featured in AM New York about his appearance as a guest investor in the current season of the ABC show Shark Tank. A New York City native who cut his teeth working for Mayor Rudy Giuliani before carving out a career in sports and investment is ready to jump into the “Shark Tank.” Matthew Higgins, the CEO of RSE Ventures and vice chairman of the Miami Dolphins, was slated to make his premiere as a “guest shark” on the ABC reality show Sunday night. In August he tweeted that he was “excited and humbled” about…
David A. Andelman, visiting scholar at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, wrote an op-ed for NBC News about how the death of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi may impact Turkey’s foreign relations with Europe. For more than three decades, Turkey has been pounding on the gates of Europe, desperately, at times frantically, seeking entry to the European Union. Turkey believed it had earned the right to be in the EU, and indeed, a decade ago Turkey’s economic growth and prospects were substantially more solid than any number of nations Europe had recently admitted. Turkey had also been…
Karen Greenberg was quoted in an Al Jazeera article about the death of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security, said she was “surprised” by the Saudis’ story about Khashoggi’s death. “They knew they had to come up with a story, and this is what they think is the best story for their purposes. It’s at the very least insufficient, but it’s also insulting. It’s ‘here’s our story and we’re sticking to it’.” Greenberg said Saudi King Salman could have reprimanded and removed his son from power for the killing. “This is a…
Alumnus Kenneth Juster ’05 joins Cooley LLP as partner. Juster focuses his practice on all aspects of laws and regulations applicable to broker‐dealers, investment advisers, alternative trading systems and securities trading. He has also advised emerging and established companies on the development and operation of funding portals and online capital-raising platforms, including in the venture capital, angel investing, crowdfunding and private and public securities markets. … In addition to his law firm experience, Juster spent more than six years working in high-profile positions at broker-dealers, including LPL Financial. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame and received his JD…