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Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP | Kasowitz Obtains Stay of Claims in High-Profile Delaware Chancery Court Action by Ukrainian Bank | Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP

The Delaware Chancery Court granted a motion by Kasowitz Benson Torres to stay all claims in a kasowitz.com/evidence/media…

closely watched action brought by Ukrainian state-owned bank PrivatBank against, among others, Kasowitz clients Mordechai “Motti” Korf and Uriel “Uri” Laber, Miami-based businessmen and philanthropists, and U.S. companies they own or operate.

Kasowitz also represents

Mr. Korf, Mr. Laber and their corporate entities in civil forfeiture actions pending in Miami federal court, and in related international ICSID arbitration proceedings.   
The Kasowitz team representing Mr. Korf and Mr. Laber and related entities is led by partners

Marc E. Kasowitz and Mark P. Ressler and includes partner Sarmad M. Khojasteh and special counsel Joshua N. Paul.

Marc Kasowitz, the firm’s founding and managing partner, has been described by CNBC as the “toughest lawyer on Wall Street” and by Bloomberg Financial News as an

“uberlitigator.” Marc is widely regarded as one of the preeminent trial lawyers in the United States. Daniel Benson is one of the country’s leading complex commercial litigators. Dan has negotiated ground-breaking tobacco settlements, a public health landmark, and directed the

litigation strategy that resulted in one of the largest settlements ever in an environmental case. Hector Torres is one of the nation’s top lawyers for the prosecution of antitrust and other complex commercial cases.

Igor Kolomoisky, who built his fortune during the lawless years immediately following the fall of the Soviet Union, reportedly has a controlling interest in Burisma, the Ukrainian oil and gas company which put President Biden’s son, Hunter, on its board of directors in 2014 at a

salary of $50,000 per month.

Korf and Laber first met in the mid-1980s when they were studying at the same yeshiva in Detroit. They were in their early teens and in Korf’s words “hit it off from the beginning.”

In 1991, Korf traveled to Dnipro, Ukraine on a relief mission for

Chabad Lubavitch, a branch of Orthodox Judaism. Located southeast of the national capital, Kyiv, Dnipro had a particular significance for Chabad — as the movement’s leader at the time, the Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, had grown up there and his father had been

the chief rabbi in the city, then called Yekaterinoslav, in the early 20th century.
Under Soviet rule, Dnipro had been a hub of the USSR’s military and space industries and a closed high security city with restricted access. Anti-Semitism persisted, religion was frowned upon by

the communist government and Jews were often persecuted.

Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy pretends to play a song on the piano with his penis in a bizarre comedy sketch that aired on Ukrainian television back in 2016.

Celebration for Zelensky’s light-footedness came just days after British actor Hugh Bonneville, one of the

stars of the “Paddington” franchise, made the revelation that the 44-year-old was the familiar voice behind the Peruvian Bear in the Ukrainian versions of “Paddington” and “Paddington 2.”

“Until today I had no idea who provided the voice of @paddingtonbear in Ukraine. Speaking

for myself, thank you, President Zelenskiy. #PaddingtonBear,” he said in a tweet, alongside a video of Zelensky.