Cohen Milstein is moving to London!
It was The Lawyer who broke the news in October last year, which was picked up the same day by Lies, Damn Lies, and subsequently by at least The Times and The Guardian. Today the Financial Times (subscription required) can be added to the list making the following announcement: Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll PLLC is coming to town. (Mind you, alert readers of Legal Week could have figured it out for themselves half a year ago already, on 6 July 2006. Dig up that day’s copy and skip to the recruitment pages, then look for two positions under the headings ‘Litigation (Class Actions) 4-8 pqe’ and ‘Class Action (US Firm) Lonndon’ [sic]; recognise which firm is the anonymous client’s name from the description there?)
The previous articles emphasise the securities practice of the firm in their headlines first, before describing the various other practices as well, including the anti-trust one. Today’s article however confirms that the initial focus of the London office will be on anti-trust and probably not so much on “encourag[ing] British pension funds to sue the companies they invest in.”
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman LLP and Grant Eisenhofer PA are mentioned in the article as examples of firms - with quotes from John P. (”Sean”) Coffey and Stuart M. Grant, respectively - that will not immediately follow here but who have been cultivating relationships with foreign institutional investors.
For what may be a flavour of what’s coming, See Cohen Milstein’s March 2006 submission to the European Commission in response to its Anti-Trust Green Paper and the firm’s June 2006 price-fixing case against British Airways plc (LSE: BAY; NYSE: BAB) and Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited.
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