Just a month after Banner Supply reached a $55 million settlement with plaintiffs in the Chinese drywall MDL in New Orleans, Banner’s lawyers are claiming that the Knauf Chinese subsidiary that made the drywall is the one to blame. Knauf’s lawyers beg to differ.

Boies Schiller’s Lee Wolosky says that his client Starr International’s suit against China MediaExpress is the first in the expanding “reverse merger” litigation to target individuals in the U.S. who helped a Chinese merger partner obtain a listing on an American exchange.

Florida-based Banner Supply cut the first major deal in the multidistrict litigation over defective Chinese drywall on Tuesday — and took the opportunity to bash another defendant for allegedly lying about the safety of the drywall it sold to Banner.

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A Chinese court’s confirmation of a $1.7 million arbitration award for menswear designer Joseph Abboud is said by Abboud’s lawyers at Kilpatrick Townsend to be one of the few Chinese rulings — if not the only one — confirming a U.S. arbitration award.