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2009 Guide Includes Praise for Restructuring, Securities Practices
Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2009 recognized Bingham practices, including its leading financial restructuring and securities practices, in 29 different categories and ranked 71 Bingham lawyers, up from 60 in the 2008 edition..
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Bingham partner David Salmons and his team won a major victory for students with disabilities and their families as the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on June 22 that parents may seek to recover reimbursement for private special-education services whenever a school district fails to make a free appropriate public education available to the child. “Parents now have the opportunity when a school has failed to provide a free and appropriate public education to obtain reimbursement for private special-education services in appropriate cases,” said Salmons, who argued the case at the Supreme Court on April 28..
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Bingham has expanded its antitrust ranks with the addition of Hill Wellford, former chief of staff of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Wellford joins Bingham’s D.C. office as a partner in the Antitrust and Trade Regulation Group..
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Four Bingham clients, detained in Guantanamo Bay for seven years even after being cleared by the U.S. government as enemy combatants, were freed in Bermuda on June 11 with partners Sabin Willett and Susan Baker Manning by their side..
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In the current economic climate, global companies facing financial difficulties and lenders must confront the daunting task of sorting through complex cross-border restructuring issues involving the United States and a number of European jurisdictions. Lawyers from Bingham’s global Financial Restructuring Group, which includes more than 100 lawyers in the United States, United Kingdom and Asia, discuss these differences and what they mean for multinational companies in a Debtwire Masterclass Cross-Border Restructuring video..
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Shortly after global markets fell into a tailspin on Sept. 15, 2008, regulators in the United States and the United Kingdom sought to contain the damage with emergency orders and new rules that left financial firms scrambling to comply. Bingham securities lawyers in London and throughout the United States moved into action, using the firm’s global platform to help clients on both sides of the Atlantic. “We have a number of clients who are dealing with issues in both the United States and the United Kingdom,” said London partner Helen Marshall, a former head of enforcement at the U.K. Financial Services Authority. “Between our London office and our colleagues in the United States, we were able to provide clients with advice in both jurisdictions.”.