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Trends and Developments Contributed by: Alex Loomis and Gregg Badichek Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP is regularly voted the “most feared” law firm in the world, and is an international leader in global asset recovery. Lawyers in this group have dec - ades of experience leading multinational judg - ment/award creditors’ rights and collection liti - gation – having run matters spanning more than 20 countries. The firm’s lawyers have the rare skill of running complex litigation and negotia - tions against intransigent debtors, and enforcing judgments and arbitral awards in jurisdictions across the globe. Quinn Emanuel’s extensive global footprint allows it to draw upon its exper - tise around the world. The firm routinely han - dles the following mandates: collecting on court
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judgments and arbitration awards through rec - ognition and enforcement proceedings across the globe; obtaining discovery orders against banks, trustees and judgment debtors; co-or - dination of proceedings in multiple jurisdictions before and after judgment; piercing corporate veils to recover against assets held by recal - citrant sovereign and private debtors through their affiliates; freezing or attaching assets in multiple jurisdictions, pre- and post-judgment – including “World Wide Freezing Orders” ; and conducting “sanctions based litigation” includ - ing contempt proceedings against debtors who breach court orders.
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Alex Loomis is a partner in the Boston office of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP and a member of the firm’s appellate and sovereign litigation practices. He has extensive
Gregg Badichek is an associate in the Washington, DC office of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP and a member of the firm’s international arbitration and sovereign litigation
experience in international and appellate litigation, especially in litigation involving foreign sovereigns and in foreign judgment and arbitral award enforcement actions and is often called upon to develop and implement enforcement strategies against hard-to-reach targets, especially foreign states.
practices. His practice focuses primarily on investor-state and commercial arbitration, enforcement of foreign arbitral awards and judgments, and cross-border complex commercial litigation. In particular, he has extensive experience in high-profile disputes emerging from Latin America, and with US-based execution remedies and post- judgment discovery.
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