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Assist an academic medical center-affiliated multiple-hospital system conduct a compliance audit of pathology laboratory services line and restructure to comply with billing rules fraud and abuse laws.
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Representation of Japanese trading company in connection with the refinancing of its loans to the Nigerian state petroleum company.
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Representing a large coal-fired power plant in the defense of a class action claim by 1500 surrounding residents for particulate emission involving first-impression issues of preemption of state nuisance law.
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Represent world-class academic and health care system in multi-plaintiff litigation arising from allegations that falsified genomic research was allowed to proceed to clinical trials with the enrollment and treatment of cancer patients.
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Advised client on multiple dry cleaning release sites in Maryland voluntary cleanup program and controlled hazardous substances program.
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Representation of a global science company in defense of an environmental civil suit brought by the Sierra Club and NRDC relating to historic mercury deposits in the South River in Virginia. Attained a unique settlement involving a six year study of the mercury issues.
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Representation of a diversified energy producer in a 14-count case pending in Greene County, Pa., which includes claims that the seminal (CBM) Hoge case should be overturned. It includes a horizontal trespass claim based on allegations that CBM outside the main bench of the Pittsburgh seam is not part of the Pittsburgh seam and a quiet title claim related to a boundary dispute. Partial summary judgment was granted upholding the CBM Hoge decision.
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Representation of multiple defendants including one of the largest producers and transporters of energy in the United States in a high-profile nuisance suit in federal district court in Mississippi asserting that the defendants’ air emissions are contributing to global warming.
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Assisted lawyers and accountants nationwide in obtaining difficult rulings, audit results, or other favorable outcomes from the Internal Revenue Service.
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Representing client in its pursuit of claims against Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation for theft of confidential information contained in a development proposal for a CT reconstruction computing platform.
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Advice to a U.S. company concerning the introduction of a whistleblowing scheme in several Belgian entities.
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Advice to a U.S. telecom operator concerning a project that will collect automobilists' personal data in France in order to offer them various services.
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Advice to a credit card issuer in IT and data protection compliance.
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Advice to international counsel as part of a team of U.S. and European lawyers, on a data breach investigation and reporting.
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Advice to a German company concerning direct marketing operation in some European countries and in the United States.
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Represented private equity fund in the restructure and buy-out of controlling interest in joint venture and negotiation of complex multi-party licensing agreement concerning nationally branded merchandise.
Case Study
A team of McGuireWoods attorneys in the firm’s Baltimore office successfully represented firm client ExxonMobil in its appeals of more than $1.5 billion in verdicts rendered by juries in two cases stemming from a 2006 underground gasoline leak at a service station located in Jacksonville, Maryland. Plaintiffs’ claimed contamination of their water supply with MTBE, a gasoline additive and claimed that MTBE was a carcinogen.
Representative Matter
Representation of a prominent manufacturer of polyurethane foam products, in litigation that consolidates numerous direct and indirect class actions and currently eleven direct "opt-out" actions, each alleging price-fixing and customer allocation by foam manufacturers in North America. McGuireWoods is performing all discovery counsel services from collecting the documents to reviewing and producing the documents in all the related litigation matters. McGuireWoods also counseled the client on document retention policy.
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Representing a private investment firm in the formation of a senior secured debt lending fund specializing in loans to small and micro-cap companies.