King & Spalding - Notable Cases

Notable Cases

• Represented Verizon Wireless in false advertising litigation involving use of maps illustrating comparison of Verizon's 3G coverage map to AT&T Mobility's 3G coverage map. Successfully defended against AT&T's motion for temporary restraining order and have successfully resolved the dispute.
• As national counsel for Purdue Pharma in the OxyContin litigation, King & Spalding defeated class certification 15 times and obtained 410 dismissals, including 30 summary judgment orders, without payment or settlement.
• National and trial counsel for GlaxoSmithKline in connection with multiple coordinated litigations and individual claims involving its SSRI antidepressant Paxil.
• Represented Sprint in its $35 billion merger with Nextel Corporation in 2004 and subsequently advised Sprint Nextel in a number of its key acquisitions including Clearwire’s WiMAX business for $4.2 billion in 2008, Virgin Mobile USA for $483 million in 2009 and wireless affiliate iPCS, Inc., for $831 million in 2009.
• Advised Caremark Rx Inc. in its $27 billion merger with CVS Corporation in 2006.
• Legal counsel to Novelis, a Canadian-based aluminum company in its purchase by Hindalco Industries Ltd., an Indian steel company for total consideration of $6 billion. The transaction closed in 2007.
• Advised Suez Energy International and Mitsui & Co., Ltd., on the largest-ever power and water financing for the $3 billion Ras Laffan project in Qatar in a joint venture with Qatar Petroleum and Qatar Electricity and Water Co., in 2008.
• Secured a $133 million arbitration award, the largest ever granted to individual claimants by the World Bank Group’s International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, against the government of Egypt in 2009, involving the expropriation of a 161-acre (0.65 km2) resort property on the Gulf of Aqaba on the Red Sea.
• Secured an arbitral award finding of $700 million in damages against the government of Ecuador on behalf of Chevron Corporation, in 2010, in a bilateral investment treaty dispute related to past oil operations by Chevron’s subsidiary, Texaco petroleum company.
• Achieved a total trial victory for former Vivendi CEO Jean-Marie Messier in 2010, as a federal court jury in New York City cleared him of allegations that he misled investors, in a securities class action case thought to be the largest ever tried to verdict. While Messier and another former Vivendi executive were found not liable, the jury found that Paris-based Vivendi SA misled investors 57 times by making upbeat statements about the company's financial condition in a supposed effort to conceal the company's liquidity risks.
• Legal counsel as Guantanamo Bay attorneys for six Yemeni detainees, including Mohammed Al-Adahi.