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TRGP Capital is Spotlighting Industry Expertise and Social Good in Litigation Funding
From the late ‘90s to the mid 2010s, two enterprising lawyers were taking on generation-defining cases. Noted dispute resolution expert Michael Rozen was tapped to negotiate settlement funds resulting from tragedies including 9/11 and the BP oil spill. Litigator Hassan Murphy, in addition to a bustling commercial practice, was championing underserved communities in crises including horrific housing conditions at “Murder Mall” in Baltimore and contaminated water in a multigenerational Black community….
From Litigation to Arbitration to Funding:
Paving a New Path in the Law with Ben Preziosi
Ben Preziosi describes his notable legal career as “hard to replicate.”
He’s right. Preziosi’s journey in the law has spanned more than four decades, five continents, two major career shifts and countless headline-dominating matters.
For 38 years, the renowned lawyer was a partner at global firm Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle. For the first 25 of those years, he litigated high-profile white-collar criminal cases and SEC investigations out of the firm’s New York office. As a young lawyer, he cut his teeth on cases arising out of the collapse of Drysdale Government Securities and the Ivan Boeskyinsider trading scandal. Then, in the ‘90s, he represented famed boxing promoter Don King in a host of cases, criminal and civil. Preziosi was also a key player in the representation of Arthur Andersen in high-profile matters involving the accounting firm’s engagements with WorldCom and Enron. In short, he handled some of the most hot-button, controversial issues of the time from day one…..