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Winston & Strawn LLP is serving as lead counsel to Hunter Biden in several different legal matters, including a federal gun charge and a congressional inquiry, and won full acquittal for Matthew Grimes, a former assistant to Trump ally Thomas Barrack, on charges that he'd assisted in a foreign influence campaign in the U.S., earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 White Collar Groups of the Year.
White collar attorneys at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP are representing the co-founder of Ripple Labs Inc. in a government lawsuit that could determine whether cryptocurrency trading on U.S. platforms requires registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 White Collar Groups of the Year.
ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT White Collar Group Of The Year: Jones Day Law360 (December 15, 2020, 3:45 PM EST) -- Jones Day represented former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver in a closely watched appeal regarding his federal corruption convictions and helped narrow prosecutorial discretion in such cases, landing it a spot among Law360's 2020 White Collar Groups of the Year. The firm's large investigations and white collar defense team is composed of more than 150 lawyers, and has a wide reach. Its white collar attorneys are "fairly evenly distributed across the firm, which me...
ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT White Collar Group Of The Year: Dechert Law360 (December 14, 2020, 3:53 PM EST) -- Dechert LLP's white collar practice landed Goldman Sachs partner Andrea Vella a no-penalty settlement in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal and persuaded a district judge to significantly reduce a jury award in a $70 million false advertising case against Spanish carbon-steel flange manufacturer ULMA Piping, earning it a place among Law360's 2020 White Collar Groups of the Year. One thing that sets Dechert's white collar practice apart from those at other international firms i...