Cleary Gottlieb Team Named Litigator of the Week Finalists for Representing Polychain

April 12, 2024

Cleary Gottlieb partners Roger Cooper and Jared Gerber and associate Sam Levander were selected as “Litigator of the Week” finalists by The American Lawyer’s Litigation Daily.

The team advised Polychain in connection with the hack of the Nomad Bridge, a protocol allowing users to move crypto assets between multiple blockchains, which was drained of $186 million in crypto assets after a routine update created a system vulnerability. U.S. Judge Laura Hatcher of Delaware recently dismissed all RICO and tort claims, rejecting a theory of liability that could have roped in cryptographic keyholders and investors in the protocol.

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