Practice Areas & Industries: Jenner & Block LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Clients from around the world rely on Jenner & Block for their most complex and challenging business cases.  Our trial prowess in high-profile, bet-the-company litigation is well known.  In January of 2006, The American Lawyer selected Jenner & Block as one of the top five litigation departments in the United States over the past two years.  Citing our impressive business victories for Fortune 500 clients, the magazine singled out Jenner & Block for our "astonishing" trial results and "hard fought" settlements, as well as our "extraordinary" pro bono efforts.  We are ranked by The BTI Consulting Group as a "go-to" law firm, among the "Power Elite" of law firms that "rise above all others," based on its annual survey of 376 corporate counsel at Fortune 1000 organizations, large privately held companies and major financial services firms.  Chambers Global legal directory has described Jenner & Block as a firm with "bedrock strength in trial work," while reporting that our clients ". . . remain steadfast in their support, describing the group as 'absolutely outstanding.'"

Building on a long history of landmark victories, Jenner & Block combines zealous advocacy, creative strategies, and experience in business, finance, accounting and deal structure to achieve each client's litigation and business goals.  The practice includes trial and appellate attorneys who have been recognized as among the leading attorneys in the country.  Some representative successes during the last several years include:

• Securing a jury award of $600 million in compensatory damages and $850 million in punitive damages against Morgan Stanley for aiding, abetting and conspiring with Sunbeam Corp. in connection with the sale of an interest in The Coleman Co. to Sunbeam, a client of Morgan Stanley.
  
  
• Obtaining the reinstatement of wireless licenses worth billions of dollars that had been re-auctioned by the FCC after the previously-licensed company declared bankruptcy.
  
  
• Defending the transfer of $622 million in assets from the bankrupt subsidiary of a client.
  
  
• Representing the plaintiff utility company against the federal government in spent nuclear fuel storage litigation which resulted in a settlement in which the plaintiff has recovered to date over $150 million.
  
  
• Securing a $181 million jury verdict against DirecTV in a case involving the financing of satellite TV equipment.
  
  
• Successfully defending and settling during a jury trial a $200+ million claim arising out of the invocation of a material adverse change clause in a corporate acquisition.
  
  
• Enforcing buy-sell rights to a $215 million portfolio which had been sold to a publicly held company based on disputed "waterfall distribution" calculations, with the case being tried to verdict in Delaware on a fast track within 60 days of its filing.
  
  
• Recovering more than $75 million in an arbitration over the pricing mechanism in fuel supply contracts and in persuading the arbitrator to fashion a more satisfactory mechanism going forward.
  
  
• Securing a $53 million judgment against the former owner of a bankrupt manufacturer that had caused its former subsidiary to declare illegal dividends and make other fraudulent transfers.