Oil & Gas

MM&H found itself in the center of a high-profile cross-border dispute brought by David Boies and the law firm of Boies Schiller on behalf of a US Trust that was supposedly assigned the interests of PDVSA, the Venezuelan government-owned oil company, in an alleged multi-billion kickback scheme. After a two-day evidentiary hearing, the PDVSA Trust claims were dismissed for lack of standing. Plaintiff was hit with significant fee awards totaling hundreds of thousands as a result of discovery abuse. Efforts to avoid the judgment by amendment were rejected by the trial judge. That ruling if on appeal in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. The previous rulings by the trial court have been affirmed.

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