Michael Robert Milken is an American financier. He is known for his role in the development of the market for high-yield bonds,and his conviction and sentence following a guilty plea on felony charges for violating U.S. securities laws. Milken's compensation while head of the high-yield bond department at Drexel Burnham Lambert in the late 1980s exceeded $1 billion over a four-year period,a record for U.S. income at that time. With a net worth of US$6 billion as of 2022,he is among the richest people in the world.
Sullivan &Cromwell LLP is an American multinational law firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1879 by Algernon Sydney Sullivan and William Nelson Cromwell,the firm advised on the creation of Edison General Electric and the formation of U.S. Steel,pioneered modern reorganization efforts for insolvent companies,and influenced key financial and regulatory practices.
Kirkland &Ellis LLP is an American multinational law firm headquartered in Chicago,Illinois. Founded in 1909,Kirkland &Ellis is the largest law firm in the world by revenue and the seventh-largest by number of attorneys. It was the first law firm in the world to reach US$7 billion in annual revenue.
Robert Hunter Biden is an American attorney and businessman. He is the second son of U.S. president Joe Biden and his first wife,Neilia Hunter Biden. Biden was a founding board member of BHR Partners,a Chinese investment company,in 2013,and later served on the board of Burisma Holdings,one of the largest private natural gas producers in Ukraine,from 2014 until his term expired in April 2019. He has worked as a lobbyist and legal representative for lobbying firms,a hedge fund principal,and a venture capital and private equity fund investor.
Bernard Lawrence Madoff was an American financial criminal and financier who was the admitted mastermind of the largest known Ponzi scheme in history,worth an estimated $65 billion. He was at one time chairman of the Nasdaq stock exchange. Madoff's firm had two basic units:a stock brokerage and an asset management business;the Ponzi scheme was centered in the asset management business.
Michael Thomas Flynn is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who was the 24th U.S. national security advisor for the first 22 days of the first Trump administration. He resigned in light of reports that he had lied regarding conversations with Russian ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak. Flynn's military career included a key role in shaping U.S. counterterrorism strategy and dismantling insurgent networks in the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars,and he was given numerous combat arms,conventional,and special operations senior intelligence assignments. He became the 18th director of the Defense Intelligence Agency in July 2012 until his forced retirement from the military in August 2014. During his tenure he gave a lecture on leadership at the Moscow headquarters of the Russian military intelligence directorate GRU,the first American official to be admitted entry to the headquarters.
John Joseph Sullivan is an American attorney and government official who served as the United States Ambassador to Russia from 2020 to 2022,and who previously served as the 19th United States Deputy Secretary of State from 2017 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party,Sullivan served as Acting United States Secretary of State from April 1,2018,to April 26,2018,following President Donald Trump's dismissal of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on March 13,2018,until Tillerson's official successor,Mike Pompeo,was sworn in. Tillerson did not officially leave office until March 31,2018. Sullivan,however,was delegated all responsibilities of the Secretary of State beginning March 13.
Robert Joseph Giuffra Jr. is an American attorney. He is Co-Chair and a partner of Sullivan &Cromwell in New York,and is a member of their Management Committee.
From 1973 until he was elected president in 2016,Donald Trump and his businesses were involved in over 4,000 legal cases in United States federal and state courts,including battles with casino patrons,million-dollar real estate lawsuits,personal defamation lawsuits,and over 100 business tax disputes. He has also been accused of sexual harassment and sexual assault,with one accusation resulting in him being held civilly liable. One case involved a 13 year old child.
Donald Trump assumed office as the 45th president of the United States on January 20,2017,and his first term ended on January 20,2021. The president has the authority to nominate members of his Cabinet to the United States Senate for confirmation under the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution.
Jeffrey Adam Rosen is an American lawyer who served as acting United States attorney general from December 2020 to January 2021 and as United States deputy attorney general from 2019 to 2020. Before joining the Department of Justice,he was a senior partner at the law firm Kirkland &Ellis and was the United States deputy secretary of transportation.
Makan Delrahim is an Iranian-American attorney and lobbyist. From 2017 to 2021,Delrahim served under President Donald Trump as Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice Antitrust Division.
Cboe Global Markets,Inc. is an American company that owns the Chicago Board Options Exchange and the stock exchange operator BATS Global Markets.
Brent James McIntosh is an American attorney who served as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs from 2017 to 2019. He previously served as General Counsel of the United States Treasury. Prior to his government service,McIntosh was a partner at Sullivan &Cromwell and was co-head of the firm's cybersecurity practice. Mcintosh is now Citigroup's Chief Legal Officer &Corporate Secretary.
Jeffrey Bryan Wall is an American attorney and former government official who served as the acting Solicitor General of the United States and the Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States during the first presidency of Donald Trump. He is now a partner and head of Supreme Court and Appellate Practice at Sullivan &Cromwell in New York and Washington,DC.
Andrei Iancu is a Romanian-American engineer and intellectual property attorney,who served as the under secretary of commerce for intellectual property and director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) from 2017 to 2021. He was nominated for both positions in 2017 by President Donald Trump. He left office on January 20,2021. He is currently a partner in Sullivan &Cromwell's intellectual property &technology practice.
Steven Peikin is an American lawyer. On June 8,2017 he was appointed as co-director of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Enforcement Division,a title he shares with Stephanie Avakian.
Geoffrey Steven Berman is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2018 to 2020. He is the Global Chair of the litigation department at the law firm Fried,Frank,Harris,Shriver &Jacobson.
The 2017–2019 Special Counsel investigation involved multiple legal teams,specifically the attorneys,supervised by Special Counsel Robert Mueller,taking part in the investigation;the team representing President Trump in his personal capacity;and the team representing the White House as an institution separate from the President.
Elad Leon Roisman is an American lawyer from Maine who is a former commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
