Lanier Saperstein

Lanier has experience in a wide array of matters impacting foreign financial institutions and large companies:

• Represented the New York City Bar Association as amicus in an appeal before the New York Court of Appeals—New York’s highest court—on a jurisdictional issue of first-impression (Aybar v. Ford Motor Company).
• Successfully defended a G-SIB in a series of high-profile lawsuits alleging terrorist financing (Hirshfield v. Bank of China Limited; Wultz v. Bank of China Limited; Moriah v. Bank of China Limited).
• Won a multimillion dollar award in China for a Fortune 500 company in a confidential arbitration.
• Defended the U.S. operations of a foreign bank in a lawsuit arising under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
• Secured dismissal for an international bank for plaintiffs’ failure to serve under the Rule 4 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (NBS Trade and Investment Ltd. v. China Construction Bank, et al.).
• Obtained dismissal for a global bank on an issue of first impression regarding international electronic fund transfers (Calderon-Cardona v. Bank of New York Mellon, et al.).
• Achieved an often-cited Second Circuit decision on the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) for three Chinese banks, halting judgment creditors’ attempt to seize PRC assets located in China (Walters v. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited, et al.).
• Obtained dismissal of a fraudulent conveyance claim against the New York branch of a foreign bank (Uni-Rty Corp., et al. v. Guandgdong Building, Inc., et al.).
• Quoted in Dewar v. Bangkok Bank Public Company Limited, New York Branch (NY Supreme) for his writings on New York's separate entity rule.
• Successfully defended the branch of a foreign bank in lawsuits alleging common law aiding and abetting liability (McDaniel v. Bank of China; Rosner v. Bank of China).
• Quashed a subpoena issued to a foreign bank on comity grounds (Tiffany (NY) LLC, et al. v. Qi., et al.).
• Represented a Swiss bank in the Parmalat class action (In re Parmalat Securities Litigation).
• Represented a Dutch bank in the Madoff litigation (Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC et al v. ABN AMRO Bank N.A.).
• Represented a GSIB in 16 coordinated cases arising under the federal securities laws.