Linda Dakin-Grimm

+1-213-892-4404
LDakin-Grimm@milbank.com
 +1-212-530-5067 (New York)
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Linda Dakin-Grimm is a partner in the Los Angeles and New York offices of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. She received a B.A. cum laude from Yale University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Her practice includes a variety of complex business litigation matters, including reinsurance and insurance disputes, on behalf of major property/casualty and life insurers and reinsurers. Ms. Dakin-Grimm has handled numerous trials, appeals, mediations and arbitration proceedings across the U.S.

In late 2007, Ms. Dakin-Grimm won a five week jury trial concerning the breach of a stock purchase agreement, that resulted in a $40 million verdict for Milbank's client, and an award of more than $3 million in attorneys fees. Ms. Dakin-Grimm recently prevailed in a two month trial in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware, on behalf of a consortium of banks who disputed the enterprise value of a Debtor. She represented eight U.S. insurers and their European parents in a well-publicized dispute with the California Department of Insurance, over the Department’s purported regulation of European life insurers. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Ms. Dakin-Grimm’s clients. Ms. Dakin-Grimm repeatedly won victories for U.S. property/casualty insurers in disputes with Lloyd’s and other London reinsurers. She obtained full rescission of a reinsurance treaty on behalf of several major reinsurers in a fraud dispute with their cedents. Ms. Dakin-Grimm has represented parties in contentious disputes involving finite issues and reinsurance pools.

Ms. Dakin-Grimm's publications include articles in the “National Law Journal,” “National Underwriter,” “Best’s Review,” “Business Insurance,” “Reinsurance,” “Mealeys Reinsurance,” the “Environmental Claims Journal,” “Verdicts & Settlements,” “California Litigation,” “California Management Review,” “Corporate Conduct Quarterly,” “California Law Business,” and a chapter on corporate criminal liability in the treatise Compliance Programs and the Corporate Sentencing Guidelines, published by West Group (New York).

Ms. Dakin-Grimm is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars. She has chaired numerous Mealeys conferences. She spoke at the ARIAS Annual Meetings in 2003, 2004 and 2006, and at numerous conferences sponsored by the ACI, the ABA, Cambridge Group, Mealeys, Euroforum and Hawksmere. Ms. Dakin-Grimm was ranked in the “Band 1” tier of Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyers in the 2007 edition of Chambers USA. She has repeatedly been recognized by “The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers” as a leading reinsurance lawyer, has been named one of the top women litigators in California by the Daily Journal in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2008, and was just recently profiled by Business Insurance as one of its 2007 "Women to Watch."   She is admitted in California, New York, and Washington, DC.


































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Articles

Top Women Litigators
Los Angeles Daily Journal

Women to Watch
Business Insurance

Preparation Matters When Videotaping Dispositions
The National Law Journal

Top Women Litigators Leaps of Faith
Los Angeles Daily Journal

A Case for National Reinsurance Uniformity
Risk/Factor

N.Y. Urged to Follow California Lead on WC
Global Reinsurance

Client Alerts

Jury Awards $40 Million in Lost Profits to Potential Acquiror of San Franciso Insurance Company

Guy Carpenter Sued by State of Connecticut for Alleged Antitrust Practices on the Reinsurance Market

In the News: The Reinsurance Industry from the Media's Perspective

Press Releases

Milbank Leading Lawyers and Practices Named by Chambers USA

Milbank Partner Linda Dakin-Grimm Named Top Women Litigator by Daily Journal

Linda Dakin-Grimm's Win for PSM Holding Corp. Recognized by Daily Journal as Top Plaintiff Verdict

Milbank Litigation Partner Linda Dakin-Grimm Recognized as a "Woman to Watch" by Business Insurance Magazine

Milbank Ranked #1 Across Spectrum of Practice Areas by Chambers and Partners

Milbank Wins Extraordinary Bankruptcy "Enterprise Valuation" Trial in Delaware


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