Two senior executives at legislation agency Dechert are quitting their jobs, a month after the authorized powerhouse was hit with a pair of racketeering lawsuits associated to its alleged function in a hack and leak operation on behalf of a sheikh of the Gulf State.
The departure of CEO Henry Nassau and Chairman Andrew Levander, who threatened to sue the Washington Free tag three years in the past for reporting separate litigation associated to the alleged hacking conspiracy – comes as Dechert faces at the least six lawsuits in London, New York and Washington, DC, accusing the agency or its attorneys of misconduct.
A lot of the allegations contain Dechert’s former head of worldwide litigation, Neil Gerrard, and one of many agency’s former shoppers, the ruler of the United Arab Emirates, Ras al-Khaimah.
Dechert confirmed the shakeup on Thursday and mentioned the corporate “has achieved large success below the management of Andy and Henry,” based on Reuters.
Jay Solomon, a former the wall road journal journalist, filed a lawsuit in opposition to Dechert in October in Washington, D.C. Solomon mentioned he was fired from the wall road journal after Dechert’s attorneys helped orchestrate a plot to steal and leak emails between him and one among his sources, aviation magnate Farhad Azima. Dechert’s consumer, the top of the United Arab Emirates’ Ras al-Khaimah, was mentioned to have had a falling out with Azima on the time of the hack.
Azima filed an identical RICO criticism in opposition to Dechert in New York final month and has ongoing litigation in opposition to the group in London. Former Georgian politician Gela Mikadze sued the agency in London in September. Two Jordanian businessmen are additionally suing Dechert in London in reference to a kidnapping and torture case involving the dominion of Ras al-Khaimah.
Dechert and Gerrard misplaced an extended authorized battle earlier this yr in opposition to Eurasian Pure Sources Company, an African mining firm and former consumer. ENRC claimed that Gerrard secretly leaked damaging details about the corporate whereas he was its lawyer to induce him to pay him greater authorized charges.
Within the ruling, a London choose mentioned Gerrard ‘frequently lied’ all through the case and was ‘so obsessive about making a living from his work that he had misplaced all actual sense objectivity, proportion and even loyalty to his consumer”.
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