2nd Circuit Court
Former Sullivan & Cromwell Lawyer is Among Galleon Defendants
Posted Nov 5, 2009, 04:48 pm CST
By Martha Neil
A trader who formerly worked as a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell was among the 14 defendants charged today in the Galleon Group hedge fund insider-trading case.
Michael Kimmelman, 38, has since founded Incremental Capital, with another defendant in the case. However, he previously worked as an associate at the well-known New York-based law firm, according to Reuters. He graduated from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.
Kimmelman spent less than two years at S&C and left more than a decade ago, reports another Reuters article.
As detailed in an earlier ABAJournal.com post, the defendants also include an associate of Ropes & Gray, Arthur Cutillo, 33, whose listing… Continue reading...
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