Joshua B. Picker

November 21, 2019, St. Louis Dispatch

Josh Picker secured a favorable settlement for Missouri voting rights organizations pursuant to which the state agreed to change its voter registration practices to expand voter access and reduce disenfranchisement.

October 1, 2019, Law360

Law360 covered William Phillips, David Pinsky, Joshua Picker, Marney Cheek, and William Lowery’s representation of Naftogaz, Ukraine's state-owned oil and gas company, in its pursuit of documents from Gazprom's Dallas-based oil and gas reserves auditor as the company pursues litigation in the Netherlands to enforce a $2.56 billion arbitral award against the ...

July 11, 2019, ACLU

The ACLU covered Josh Picker's representation of domestic flight passengers subject to suspicionless searches by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Mr. Picker says, "We are pleased to have reached a settlement that recognizes that our clients were wronged by government officials when they exited the plane on February 22, 2017 and that such conduct is not to ...

June 14, 2019

LONDON—The American Lawyer and Legal Week have named Covington its Transatlantic Arbitration Team of the Year. The award focuses on a single case that involved significant lawyering on both sides of the Atlantic and that demonstrated excellence in legal expertise and innovation, project management skills, and teamwork. The publications recognized Covington for ...

April 23, 2019, Commercial Dispute Resolution

Commercial Dispute Resolution mentioned Covington as legal counsel to Naftogaz, Ukraine’s state-owned oil and gas company, advising the company in its victory over the Russian government that illegally expropriated the oil company’s assets in Crimea.   David Pinsky described it as “an important day” for the oil company, explaining: “Russia targeted Naftogaz’s ...

March 1, 2019

WASHINGTON—Covington secured a major victory on behalf of Ukraine’s state-owned oil and gas company, NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine, in an international arbitration against the Russian Federation. A tribunal sitting at the Permanent Court of Arbitration, in The Hague, concluded that Russia unlawfully expropriated Naftogaz’s assets in Crimea, in violation of Russia’s ...

December 18, 2018, Law360

Covington successfully won dismissal of a summary judgment motion by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York in a case involving the Fourth Amendment and the Administrative Procedures Act. The Covington team is representing airline passengers who were required to show identification by U.S. Customs and Broder Protection and are now ...

January 25, 2018, Covington Advisory

Our message this year is simple: FCPA enforcement is here to stay. Despite pre-election statements to the contrary, various senior officials in the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) have, over the past year, consistently reaffirmed DOJ’s and the SEC’s commitment to FCPA enforcement.