Max B. Chester is a litigation partner with Foley & Lardner LLP. He focuses his practice on litigation and arbitration of domestic and international commercial business disputes and government enforcement actions primarily in the areas of insurance and reinsurance, financial fraud, securities enforcement and FCPA.
Recent engagements include representation of a publicly traded company in the SEC's inquiry regarding the company's ownership of an entity that specialized in investment in and securitization of credit sensitive residential mortgage assets; FCPA compliance review for a Fortune 50 company in Russia and Kazakhstan; FCPA counseling of a U.S, entity establishing a distributorship network in Russia; representation of a Ukrainian company in litigation in U.S. courts against the company’s former U.S. based financial agent; representation of a European reinsurer in a multi-million dollar claim made by an insolvent U.S. ceding company regarding a finite risk treaty; representation of a private mortgage insurer in a series of proposed class actions alleging RESPA violations on account of reinsurance agreements between the insurer and the affiliates of mortgage lenders; as well as representation of the same insurer before the CFPB.
