Richard Fleck has a wide-ranging practice embracing international corporate transactions, dispute resolution, and competition and regulation, including:
- transactions for NYSE (Euronext), Time Warner (AOL), Fortune Brands (Pernod Ricard/Allied Domecq), Grand Metropolitan (now Diageo), BAT, De Beers, Virgin and Fosters Brewing Group;
- international commercial disputes such as the collapse of Enron, the DeLorean Motor Car Group, Johnson Matthey Bankers, the Reksten Shipping Group bankruptcy and resulting investigation, the disputes involving Lonrho/House of Fraser, and Nissan UK/Nissan Motor Company Limited, and the settlement of the Lloyd’s of London insurance market dispute; and
- advised Andersen, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and KPMG on accountancy, audit and liability matters.
He is the only non-US lawyer to be chosen following surveys of the General Counsel of Fortune 1000 companies undertaken by Fortune magazine to identify those lawyers who provide outstanding client service. He was nominated in each year from 2005 and 2009.
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