JOSIP HEIT AND GSB GERMANY RETAIN QUINN EMANUEL

Partners Alex Spiro and Avi Perry call all allegations "unproven accusations"

NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP announced today that Josip Heit, GSB Gold Standard Corporation AG (GSB Germany), and certain GSB Germany subsidiaries have retained partners Alex Spiro and Avi Perry to represent them in connection with ongoing state civil regulatory and enforcement proceedings in the United States.

"At this stage, the allegations against Mr. Heit and his businesses are unproven accusations. Neither Mr. Heit nor his companies have been charged criminally in any jurisdiction, and no final order has been entered in any of the pending civil matters. Mr. Heit and his companies look forward to working with the state authorities to address their concerns and resolve these matters," Spiro and Perry said.

Quinn Emanuel is a 1000+ lawyer business litigation firm—the largest in the world devoted solely to business litigation and arbitration with 34 global office locations. Surveys of major companies around the world have named it the "most feared" law firm in the world three times. Firm lawyers have tried over 2,500 cases, winning 86% of them. When representing defendants, Quinn Emanuel's trial experience gets better settlements or defense verdicts. When representing plaintiffs, Quinn Emanuel lawyers have won nearly $80 billion in judgments and settlements. Quinn Emanuel has also obtained seven nine-figure jury verdicts, four 10-figure jury verdicts, 51 nine-figure settlements, and 20 10-figure settlements. 

Quinn Emanuel has been named the No. 1 "most feared" law firm by The BTI Consulting Group three times in its annual "Most Feared Law Firms in Litigation" guide, in which in-house counsel named 46 firms they "want to steer clear of" when it comes to litigation. The American Lawyer awarded Quinn Emanuel "Litigation Department of the Year" for 2023 and has named the firm top IP litigation firm in the U.S. The UK legal periodical The Lawyer named us "International Firm of the Year." Law360 has most recently selected us as having Banking, Class Action, International Arbitration, and Trials "Practice Groups of the Year." Managing IP twice recognized us as having the "Best ITC Litigation Practice" and honored us with the "Patent Contentious West" award. Legal Business has named us "US Law Firm of the Year" three times, and our German offices have twice been named both "IP Litigation Firm of the Year" and "Patent Litigation Firm of the Year" by JUVE, Germany's most prestigious legal publication. Global Investigations Review, a leading legal periodical covering global white-collar investigations, named us the "Most Impressive Investigations Practice of the Year." Global Arbitration Review named us the 3rd best arbitration practice in the world. Global Competition Review named our antitrust and competition practice among the "25 Global Elite," and has included us in their list of the world's top 10 competition litigation practices.

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