Issue 6 2019
78 Acquisition International - Issue 6 2019 Apr19369 Tried and Tested: Oberdier Ressmeyer LLP, Best Boutique Litigation Firm 2019 Oberdier Ressmeyer LLP offers a unique combination of global expertise in a boutique legal practice. We profile the firm, which was awarded Best Boutique Litigation Firm 2019 - New York in our AI Global Excellence Awards for 2019, to find out more. berdier Ressmeyer LLP was founded in 2011 with a single, primary mission: winning. Since its inception, the Firm has taken a results-oriented approach, eschewing formal marketing and business development to focus 100% of its time on getting results. Today, the Firm has a well-documented record against the world’s mega-firms, achieving uniformly premium results at below- market prices. Its current clients include publicly-traded companies; foreign state-owned entities; a global manufacturer of set-top-boxes, a commercial real-estate developer, and a “Red Circle” Chinese law firm. Among its recent defense-wins is a post-default, voluntary dismissal of all claims asserted a leading Chinese automobile manufacturer. The Firm also secured a zero-sum settlement of claims asserted contemporaneously in three forums against a global asset manager ($100bn AUM). On the Plaintiff’s side, the Firm represented a bankruptcy trustee in one of the few successful federal civil RICO claims asserted against a consumer bank. Amid all this, the Firm also dedicates more than 20% of its time to pro bono work, including a recent successful jury verdict on behalf of a Bivens plaintiff asserting an Eighth Amendment challenge for failure-to-protect. Oberdier Ressmeyer LLP undefeated record against the world’s largest law firms is just one facet of the Firm’s winning streak. The Firm has an active expert witness practice and its attorneys are frequently engaged as experts on New York and U.S. law by litigants in foreign proceedings. By way of example, in an ICC arbitration seated in Stockholm, Sweden, one of the Firm’s attorneys persuaded a foreign arbitral panel that a pending criminal indictment for economic espionage was insufficient, under New York law, to declare a contract void for illegality. The Firm has been named “Boutique Litigation Practice of the Year: New York | USA” by the Corporate Livewire Global Awards for three consecutive years. Founding Partners, Carl W. Oberdier and Kellen G. Ressmeyer, are six-time recipients of the New York Metro “Super Lawyers” and “Rising Star” designations, respectively. Ms. Ressmeyer has also been listed as one of the “New York Metro Top Women Lawyers” every year since year the Firm’s inception. In March 2018, Ms. Ressmeyer was nominated to the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference. Company: Oberdier Ressmeyer LLP Name: Kellen G. Ressmeyer Address: 655 3rd Avenue, 28th Floor, New York, 10017, United States, New York Phone: 212-659-5142 Website: http://oberdier.com/in-the-news/ O “By way of example, in an ICC arbitration seated in Stockholm, Sweden, one of the Firm’s attorneys persuaded a foreign arbitral panel that a pending criminal indictment for economic espionage was insufficient, under New York law, to declare a contract void for illegality.”
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