Maney & Associates, PC, provides nuanced representation to foreign governments, including their commercial instrumentalities, involved in litigation. Our understanding of the applicable sovereign immunities protections, international law, and the special political considerations of our clients enables us to protect our clients' interests in these sensitive matters.
Attorneys Mark Maney and Roliff Purrington have counseled sovereign nations and their officials in diverse legal matters, including treaty matters, international transactions, U.S. and U.N. aid programs, contract matters, and fraud and corruption lawsuits.
Our firm has represented nations around the world in complex and high-profile legal conflicts. We understand all that is at stake: millions of dollars, state secrets, corruption scandals and international relations. Among our notable cases:
- We represent the Republic of Iraq in lawsuits against multinational companies that were unjustly enriched through abuse of the United Nations Oil for Food Programme, accounting for the reality that former and current Iraqi officials were complicit in the corruption under Saddam Hussein's regime.
- We represent the Republic of Peru in a dispute with the Kingdom of Spain and a private corporation over the spoils of recently recovered sunken treasure.
- As lead counsel on behalf of the Republic of Mexico, Mark Maney recovered $40 million in frozen assets embezzled from state-run Pemex and stashed in the United States.
- We represent the Mexican trucking industry in a suit against the United States seeking billions of dollars in reparations for NAFTA violations in turning away Mexican trucks at the border.
- We have represented Pemex, the Mexican national oil industry, for decades in both defense and plaintiff matters.
Mr. Purrington served with the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq and the U.S. State Department before private practice, and still serves as counsel to the Iraqi government in numerous matters.
Mr. Maney has more than 20 years of experience in high-stakes civil litigation and concentrates primarily in international cases.
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