The Bank of America Corporation is an American multinational investment bank and financial services holding company headquartered at the Bank of America Corporate Center in Charlotte,North Carolina,with investment banking and auxiliary headquarters in Manhattan. The bank was founded by the merger of NationsBank and Bank of America in 1998. It is the second-largest banking institution in the United States and the second-largest bank in the world by market capitalization,both after JPMorgan Chase. Bank of America is one of the Big Four banking institutions of the United States. It serves about 10 percent of all American bank deposits,in direct competition with JPMorgan Chase,Citigroup,and Wells Fargo. Its primary financial services revolve around commercial banking,wealth management,and investment banking.
Richard M. Berman is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Joseph Grundfest is an American academic. He is the William A. Franke Professor of Law and Business at Stanford Law School and co-director of the Rock Center on Corporate Governance at Stanford University. He joined Stanford's faculty in 1990 after having served for more than four years as a Commissioner of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission,a position to which he was appointed by President Ronald Reagan.
Stifel Financial Corp. is an American multinational independent investment bank and financial services company created under the Stifel name in July 1983 and listed on the New York Stock Exchange on November 24,1986. Its predecessor company was founded in 1890 as the Altheimer and Rawlings Investment Company and is headquartered in downtown St. Louis,Missouri.
Latham &Watkins LLP is an American multinational law firm. Founded in 1934 in Los Angeles,California,Latham is the second-largest law firm in the world by revenue. As of 2022,Latham is also one of the most profitable law firms in the world,with profits per partner exceeding US$5.7 million.
Robert Allen Stanford is a convicted financial fraudster,former financier,and sponsor of professional sports. He was convicted of fraud in 2012,having operated an eight billion dollar Ponzi scheme,and is now serving a 110-year federal prison sentence.
Taylor,Bean &Whitaker was a top-10 wholesale mortgage lending firm in the United States,the fifth-largest issuer of Government National Mortgage Association securities. Their slogan was "Perfecting the Art of Mortgage Lending".
Raoul Weil is a Swiss banker. Weil is best known as being the former chairman and chief executive officer of Global Wealth Management &Business Banking at UBS AG. Weil eventually became a member of UBS's group executive board.
UBS Group AG is a multinational investment bank and financial services company founded and based in Switzerland. Headquartered simultaneously in Zürich and Basel,it maintains a presence in all major financial centres as the largest Swiss banking institution and the largest private bank in the world. UBS investment bankers and private bankers are known for their strict bank–client confidentiality and culture of banking secrecy. Because of the bank's large positions in the Americas,EMEA and Asia Pacific markets,the Financial Stability Board considers it a global systemically important bank.
Paul Adam Engelmayer is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Ronnie Abrams is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Vivint Smart Home,Inc. an NRG company,is United States-based smart home and security provider delivering an integrated smart home system with in-home consultation,installation and support,and monitoring. Vivint offers a range of integrated smart home and security products,including cameras,locks,safety sensors,thermostats,lighting,managed through the Vivint Smart Hub and mobile app.
Avianca Group International Limited is a pan-regional Latin American multinational airline holding company with its registered office in St Albans,England,and its global headquarters in Bogotá,Colombia. It was formed in February 2010 after a merger agreement between Avianca and TACA Airlines,the flag carriers of Colombia and El Salvador respectively,when Avianca and TACA became wholly owned subsidiaries of Avianca Holdings. TACA's shareholders were given 29% and Avianca's shareholders were given 71% of the shares in the new company.
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.
The Swiss investment bank and financial services company,UBS Group AG,has been at the center of numerous tax evasion and avoidance investigations undertaken by U.S.,French,German,Israeli,and Belgian tax authorities as a consequence of their strict banking secrecy practices.
Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated is a biopharmaceutical company located in San Diego,California. Founded in 1987 as Progenix Inc.,the company went public in 1992. Initially focused on developing its own drugs,a period of turbulence in the early 2000s culminated in its CEO being ejected by the shareholders and provoked a change in focus to the acquisition of existing drugs and forming partnerships to develop them further.
United States v. One Tyrannosaurus Bataar Skeleton (1:13−cv−00857) is a 2013 United States District Court for the Southern District of New York judgment regarding a requested order from the United States government to seize an imported Mongolian Tarbosaurus skeleton related to smuggling law and the applicability of Mongolian law in the United States.
Martin P. Russo is an American trial lawyer of Sicilian and Cuban heritage from New York. He handles complex business litigation in state and federal courts throughout the United States,and other matters pending in administrative and alternative dispute resolution forums. He has handled bet-the-company litigations,complicated commercial disputes,financial services litigation,regulatory defense,white collar defense,corporate compliance,and internal investigations for publicly held and private companies in the United States and abroad.
Federal Trade Commission v. Meta Platforms,Inc. is an ongoing antitrust court case brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against Facebook parent company Meta Platforms. The lawsuit alleges that Meta has accumulated monopoly power via anti-competitive mergers,with the suit centering on the acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp.
John Frank Murphy is an American lawyer who is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
