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November 10, 2010
MONSIEUR SOLOMON
Though the co-chair of Cadwalader’s litigation department, Lou
Solomon, may appear to be the docent at the Guggenheim, you
won’t find the Brancusi’s Mademoiselle Pogany he’s pointing to on
display there or anywhere else. Lou tells us he’s repping Norwegian
art collector Christen Sveaas in a fierce international custody
dispute over the $40M-$100M work being waged in the courtrooms
of Manhattan, Oslo, Paris and Romania (which is claiming the
sculpture as a national treasure). Lou jokingly says, "the world's
gone global," and he and colleagues are actively developing an
international litigation practice that focuses on cases touching
multiple sovereign jurisdictions. These cases present unique
challenges, and he plans to double the firm's international lit
workforce to 20 senior attorneys in the next two years to take
advantage of the growing demand.
In July, he launched the One World International Practice Law
Blog (the office is located at One World Financial Center) to discuss
judicial and regulatory decisions, as well as trends in international
litigation, dispute resolution, investigations, regulatory compliance,
and enforcement. He says the firm’s growth in Beijing, London, and
a new office prospect in Hong Kong are creating more
opportunities to get involved in international cases that go to court
(unlike FCPA cases, where the bulk is pre-trial). When he’s not
putting in long hours, he likes to go home and read to his “glorious”
kids, 12, 11, and nine. He says they’ve read hundreds of books
together, including the entire Harry Potter, Narnia, and Tolkien
series, and most recently Lost Horizon by James Hilton about the
Shangri-la utopia (it ain’t Kansas, says Lou).