This news comes too late for him to make our March Madness bracket of naughty Biglaw lawyers, but ex-Hunton & Williams partner Robert Schulman just got convicted of insider trading. From Law360:
A former Hunton & Williams LLP patent attorney on Wednesday was convicted by a Brooklyn federal jury on insider trading charges for tipping off his friend and investment adviser about Pfizer Inc.’s plans to acquire his client.
The jury of six men and six women found Robert Schulman guilty of conspiracy and securities fraud following a less-than-two-week-long trial before U.S. District Judge Joan M. Azrack. Schulman is currently a partner at Arent Fox LLP but is on leave from the firm.
One of his lawyers, Christopher Mead of London & Mead, told the jury during trial, “I represent an innocent man.” It seems that the jury disagreed.
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The facts of the case, which we’ve mentioned before in these pages, were colorful. Schulman allegedly got drunk before sharing inside information about a planned M&A deal with a pal. Specifically, he told his friend and investment adviser Tibor Klein that his client King Pharmaceuticals was going to merge with Pfizer, using this hint: “It would be nice to be King for a day.”
Alas, Schulman now finds himself in some royal trouble.
BREAKING: Ex-Hunton Patent Atty Convicted Of Insider Trading [Law360]
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