What areas of the law do we handle?
Our Complex Business Litigation practice involves a wide array of substantive law and industries.  Areas of particular expertise and recent experience include appellate, health care, and insurance. Click on these areas to see more about each practice.

• Representing credit card payment processor Heartland Payment Systems in multiple class action lawsuits brought by banks, consumers, merchants and shareholders, and related investigations from various federal, state, and foreign government regulators in connection with what has been reported to be the largest-ever computer data security breach.  For a description of an associate's role in this matter, click here.
  
  
• Representing Wyndham Hotels & Resorts in connection with a series of data security breaches of the computer networks of a substantial number of independently owned Wyndham-branded hotels.

Lauren Reznick (Boston University School of Law '07) works with partner, John Bueker on the Schering Plough matter described below.

• Defending pharmaceutical manufacturer Merck & Co. (f/k/a Schering-Plough) in a multi-district litigation brought by insurers, state attorneys general, and individuals across the country relating to its drug pricing practices. For a description of an associate's role in this matter, click here.

• Serve as lead counsel to London and Bermuda insurers in responding to the largest set of property claims in insurance history, including winning a jury verdict for Lloyd's and other European insurers in the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center insurance coverage litigation. As a result of the victory the firm was honored by the Chairman of Lloyd's, Lord Levene, for exceptional service. In early 2008, Ropes & Gray obtained another successful result for our clients, winning a summary judgment ruling confirming that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is not entitled to pursue a second round of insurance payments — potentially totaling $1.5 billion or more — for the World Trade Center property it leased to developer Larry Silverstein shortly before 9/11.

          For more examples of the Litigation Department's insurance practice, click here.

• Representing Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. and Polar Air Cargo, LLC in multi-district class action litigation in connection with rate and surcharge price-fixing allegations. For a description of an associate's role in this matter, click here.