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Updated: October 31st, 2020 | Portland | Lawyer List C | Ball Janik LLP | Litigation,
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Address: 101 SW Main Street, Suite 1100, portland, OR, 97204
Law Firm: Ball Janik LLP
Phone: 503-676-6233
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Website: http://www.balljanik.com
| Title | Partner |
| First Year of Call | |
| Areas of Practice | Litigation |
| Description | Ciaran Connelly joined Ball Janik LLP in 2011 as a Litigation associate in the firm’s Portland office. He is a business and trial attorney with broad experience in business and commercial litigation. As an associate with two prominent New York law firms, Mr. Connelly handled diverse matters ranging from complex commercial lease and contract disputes to masstort and insurance disputes, to regulatory and compliance investigation and defense. Mr. Connelly’s experience with complex commercial contract and real estate disputes includes representing an investment bank in a $100 million lease dispute with its landlord, where he was responsible for all aspects of litigation from initial document gathering and client interviews to depositions, witness preparation, client counsel, trial preparation, mediation and arbitration sessions, and drafting of appellate briefs, motion papers, affidavits, and letters. More recently Mr. Connelly worked on a dispute involving the control and ownership of several highprofile office buildings in Portland. He consulted with a biotechnology firm to assess the merits of a potential contract and intellectual property dispute with its jointventure research partner over an enzyme to be used in the production of biofuels. He also represented a bank in a contract dispute with its client, a CEO, regarding a complex derivative transaction called a cashless collar. Mr. Connelly also has experience working on contract disputes with subjects as diverse as complex interlender agreements, railroad trackage rights, and headhunting fees. Mr. Connelly has broad tort experience, including defending a Fortune 200 company in a ninemonth civil RICO trial in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and in the subsequent appeal. He represented a Fortune 100 company in a shareholder dispute related to a multibilliondollar merger, and was part of a team that recovered $30 million on behalf of a union for actuarial malpractice. He also helped resolve a reinsurer’s liability in connection with a $1 billion Ponzi scheme. In a significant insurance coverage case, Mr. Connelly represented a reinsurance company in a $300 million badfaith dispute with its reinsured related to an asbestos claim. In that case, he was responsible for preparing for a mockjury exercise, including performing factual and legal research, synthesizing arguments, coordinating those arguments with retained experts’ views, and developing effective presentation materials. Most recently Mr. Connelly has represented large institutional investors in mortgagebacked securities in their multibilliondollar securities claims against a number of Wall Street banks. Mr. Connelly has significant experience representing corporations in regulatory and internal investigations. In addition to responding to FINRA and state attorney general requests, he represented a major accounting firm in an SEC investigation of the accounting practices of its largest client. He also aided an investment bank with an internal FCPA investigation into its business in China. Mr. Connelly also has experience in criminal appeals work, having handled two probono appeals, one on behalf of a defendant, and one on behalf of the King County (Brooklyn) District Attorney’s office. Depth and Experience Prior to joining Ball Janik LLP, Mr. Connelly was an associate with Grais & Ellsworth LLP, a boutique New York City law firm, where his practice focused on private label mortgagebacked securities litigation. Mr. Connelly’s responsibilities included researching legal and factual bases for claims, drafting pleadings and client memoranda, and managing teams of attorneys preparing for discovery. From 2004 to 2009, Mr. Connelly was an associate with Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, an internationally recognized law firm, where his work focused on complex commercial litigation, white collar criminal cases, and regulatory investigations. Before entering law school in 2001, Mr. Connelly was a litigation paralegal for two years with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in New York. Mr. Connelly is a member of the American Bar Association, the Multnomah Bar Association and the Dartmouth Lawyers Association. |
Our mission is twofold: to perform high quality professional work that advances the interest of our clients, and to cultivate a firm culture that ensures our professionals and staff will deliver on that promise.Founded in Portland, Oregon in 1982, Ball Janik LLP has earned a reputation for industry leadership in real estate and land use law, financial services, bankruptcy and creditor rights, construction and design, construction litig…
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