Perrenial corporate raider Carl Icahn reportedly is trying to bully Wachtell Lipton for representing his targets:
Wachtell thinks it knows exactly why Icahn is engaged in what it regards as naked chicanery: to bully his anti-takeover nemeses at the law firm. “The Icahn-sponsored CVR litigation amounts to a scare tactic to intimidate those lawyers willing and able to help clients faced with Icahn’s opportunistic attacks,” Wachtell said in its New York case, which seeks a declaratory judgment that Wachtell committed no malpractice and that Icahn and CVR breached confidentiality orders protecting discovery from the banks’ fee litigation. “In a number of high-profile situations, Wachtell Lipton has helped clients fend off Icahn, including assisting Clorox in defeating an Icahn takeover assault in 2012 and assisting Dell when Icahn unsuccessfully sought to break up a premium transaction in order to buy the company for himself in 2013,” the firm asserted. “Icahn resents any resistance and thus has for years attacked Wachtell Lipton in the press for its fierce commitment to its clients. With his new litigation campaign, Icahn takes his bullying campaign to a new level, seeking to intimidate lawyers who help clients resist his demands by making wild allegations and threatening liability.”
