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Sullivan has worked with UBS in the past, advising the bank on its $10.8bn (£6.3bn) acquisition of private banker PaineWebber in 2000. The team handling the work was led by firm chairman Rodgin Cohen.
The New York-based firm also advised UBS in April of this year when it raised $15bn (£8.7bn) in new capital to help offset some of the bank’s recent $44bn (£25.5bn) in writedowns.
This summer, UBS turned to Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom litigators David Zornow and Lawrence Spiegel to represent Martin Liechti, the head of the bank's wealth management unit in the
The Zurich-based banking giant also turned to Debevoise & Plimpton's Mary Jo White, chair of her firm's litigation department, and litigation partner Andrew Ceresney to help negotiate a $19.4bn (£11.2bn) auction-rate securities settlement with New York State and Massachusetts officials in August.
The investigation resulted in the resignation and eventual guilty plea of David Aufhauser, the general counsel of UBS's investment banking subsidiary. Aufhauser was represented by Gibson Dunn & Crutcher's Joseph Warin, co-chair of the firm's white-collar defence practice.
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