Fraude Contable - La especialidad de Susman
It appears we can count on a very strong case on valuation and accounting being presented by the EC attorneys. They have gone up against some of the biggest accounting firms in the world and won huge settlements. Also, this should lay to rest any rumors that S-G is afraid to go up against huge Wall Street firms.
From Susman-Godfrey's Website:
Susman Godfrey Gets Hired for Big Cases Because Susman Godfrey Gets Results:
In March 2008, Susman Godfrey successfully settled audit and tax malpractice claims brought against PricewaterhouseCoopers by the bankruptcy estates of sister companies Metropolitan Mortgage and Summit Securities. Metropolitan and Summit’s bankruptcies were the largest in the history of eastern Washington and Susman Godfrey was chosen from a number of applicants to represent the estates in for all professional malpractice claims, including the suit against PricewaterhouseCoopers and one other audit firm. Accounting issues in the PwC case included treatment of a complex international tax shelter, valuation of mortgage backed securities, and reporting various sophisticated commercial real estate transactions. The settlement was announced on March 3, 2008, the day trial was scheduled to begin in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington in Spokane.
In August 2007 Susman Godfrey settled a multi-hundred million dollar accounting malpractice case against one of the world’s largest accounting firms. We represented a foreign industrial conglomerate that had acquired a United States company based in large part on the accounting firm’s certification of the company’s misleading (as it turns out) financial statements. After defeating multiple motions for summary judgment and to strike our experts, we settled the case on the Friday before the jury trial in New Jersey state court was set to begin. The amount of the settlement is confidential.
Susman Godfrey was retained by the bankruptcy estate of Enron to pursue claims against ten commercial and investment banks. The claims alleged that Enron's financial statements had been distorted as a result of complex transactions that had been engineered with the active involvement of the banks. Between 2004- 2006, Susman Godfrey negotiated settlements with the commercial and investment banks on Enron's behalf, bringing billions of dollars to the Enron bankruptcy estate and creditors.
In October 2004, after overcoming various summary judgment motions, Susman Godfrey successfully settled an action it had brought against PricewaterhouseCoopers on behalf of over ninety lenders who had advanced over $1 billion in funds to Safety-Kleen Corporation. Settlement was finalized on the day trial was scheduled to begin in state court in Atlanta, Georgia. The suit alleged negligence by auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers (and its predecessor, Coopers & Lybrand) in its failure to discover massive accounting fraud and violations of GAAP. Susman Godfrey was selected to prosecute this action by a committee of the lenders after an extensive search and interview process involving other premier plaintiffs' law firms from across the country. By agreement, the actual amount of the settlement must remain confidential.
In October 2002, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP agreed to resolve lawsuits by Anicom Inc. shareholders and creditors, who accused the accounting firm of acting recklessly by certifying the company's financial statements during the years leading up to its January 2001 bankruptcy-court filing. According to the October 29, 2002, Wall Street Journal, the "payment is among the larger settlements to date over an alleged audit failure by PricewaterhouseCoopers."