Biography: Commercial Litigation

A senior partner in the litigation department (which he chaired from 1999-2005), and a member of the firm's management committee, Martin Flumenbaum has achieved national recognition as both an outstanding litigator and corporate adviser. He regularly advises US and international clients on a broad range of litigation issues, with an emphasis on securities, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, antitrust and white-collar criminal matters. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

In January 2006, Mr Flumenbaum's representation of Hollinger International and American International Group (AIG) was featured in a cover story in The American Lawyer, 'The Lifesavers,' in which Paul Weiss was selected as the best litigation firm in the United States for the period in which Mr Flumenbaum chaired the department. In 2005, Mr Flumenbaum was profiled by the National Law Journal for his work on Hollinger and other key cases, and featured in the publication's special feature, 'Winning: 10 Profiles of Successful Strategies From Some of The Nation's Top Litigators'. Mr Flumenbaum has also been recognised as one of the leading litigators in the United States by Chambers, Lawdragon, Super Lawyers and Legal 500 and selected by Best Lawyers in America as one of the leading lawyers in the United States in three separate categories, including 'Bet-The-Company' litigation.

Mr Flumenbaum regularly serves as trial and litigation counsel on commercial disputes and investigations for AIG, Hollinger International, Fitch Ratings, Skanska, Rhodia SA, Banque Populaire, Sealed Air, Weight Watchers International, Metromedia, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), British Telecommunications, Plc, Fimalac, Fitch Ratings, Malaysian Broadcast Network Satellite System and others.

In a highly publicised trial in Delaware, Mr Flumenbaum won a battle for corporate control involving Hollinger International, as well as a $30 million verdict against Conrad Black. Mr Flumenbaum has also won a $47 million verdict in a dispute involving a complex tax-sharing agreement, and achieved a highly favourable multimillion dollar settlement of a dispute arising from an acquisition of a billion-dollar coal company. He successfully concluded a three-month international arbitration which was tried in both the United States and Singapore, in which his client recovered nearly $100 million. Currently, Mr Flumenbaum is representing AIG, Metromedia, Weight Watchers, Fitch and others in various federal securities and general commercial litigation matters.

In his career, Mr Flumenbaum has been retained to conduct numerous internal investigations by various corporations.

Mr Flumenbaum is a member of the board of directors and the executive committee of New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, a public interest civil rights organisation in New York, and since 1985 has written a monthly column for The New York Law Journal, titled 'Second Circuit Review,' which discusses significant decisions and legal trends in the federal courts. He has lectured on the attorney-client privilege and on the corporate and individual sentencing guidelines.

From 1979 to 1982, Mr Flumenbaum served as an assistant US attorney in the Southern District of New York, in which capacity he tried numerous criminal cases, concentrating in matters involving securities fraud, commodities fraud and tax fraud. He was also the lead prosecutor in the successful tax prosecution of Sun Myung Moon in 1982. In 1974, he became law clerk to Judge Whitman Knapp of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. He joined the firm in 1975 following his clerkship and became partner in 1983.