Milbank Partner Linda Dakin-Grimm Recognized as Top Women Litigator by Los Angeles Daily Journal
Professional Accolade is Second Consecutive Year of Top Ranking
LOS ANGELES, May 10, 2007 – For the second consecutive year, Linda Dakin-Grimm, a partner in the international law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, has been ranked a “Top Women Litigator” by the Los Angeles Daily Journal. Ms. Dakin-Grimm has also been twice-ranked among the Top 50 Women Lawyers in California (2003, 2004).
Ms. Dakin-Grimm was recognized for her achievements in business and reinsurance litigation and arbitration. Her notable trial victories for 2007 include:
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Successfully representing creditor UBS in a $300 to $400 million complex business valuation trial that was part of a larger bankruptcy proceeding.
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Successfully representing AIG Member Companies against a California-based reinsurance company that refused to reimburse the companies for previous money they paid to policyholders to settle 14 complex toxic and environmental cases.
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Successfully representing Associated Accident and Health Reinsurance Underwriters (“AAHRU”), a pool of reinsurers composed of more than 15 companies, in a dispute that involved substantial financial losses to AAHRU from broker Sedgwick (now part of Marsh McLennan, broker in the U.S.) and Bradstock (a broker in the United Kingdom now in liquidation). AAHRU filed against Sedgwick and Bradstock for breach of contract, negligence, breach of fiduciary duty and negligent misrepresentation.
Ms. Dakin-Grimm joined Milbank in 1999. She received her B.A., cum laude, from Yale University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.
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Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP is a preeminent global law firm that for more than 140 years has provided innovative legal solutions in many of the world’s largest, most complex, “first-ever” corporate transactions and litigation. Our transactional expertise includes capital markets, corporate finance and transactions, project finance, acquisition finance, and other major fields of law practice. Milbank litigation teams resolve disputes involving mergers and acquisitions, proxy battles, financings and securities offerings, intellectual property, white collar crime, and corporate restructurings, among others. Our clients range from prominent multinational financial, industrial and commercial enterprises to governments, institutions and individuals. The Firm is headquartered in New York with offices in Beijing, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Munich, Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington, DC.