Richard Mancino Partner MAIN OFFICE: New York Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP 787 Seventh Avenue New York, N.Y. 10019-6099, U.S.A. T 212-728-8243 F 212-728-9243

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Richard Mancino is a partner in the litigation department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York.  Mr. Mancino specializes in corporate and commercial litigation.

Mr. Mancino represents US and international clients on a wide variety of matters, including complex insurance and reinsurance disputes, securities litigation, and alter ego and corporate veil litigation. His practice also includes bankruptcy-related litigation, including fraudulent transfer claims, M&A-related disputes, and product liability litigation and counseling.

Mr Mancino has extensive experience handling international reinsurance disputes, including arbitrations. His more recent work has included representing a foreign reinsurance company in federal securities class action litigation, a foreign reinsurer in disputes connected to the World Trade Centre in which he argued successfully in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals that legislation passed in the wake of the attacks did not abrogate private arbitration agreements, and foreign insurance companies in lawsuits in the US involving alter ego claims.

Mr. Mancino appears frequently in state and federal courts throughout the US. He has successfully argued appeals in the Second, Third and Seventh Circuit Courts of Appeal. His pro bono work has included representing 56 scientific organizations as amici curiae in an appeal involving the constitutionality of a disclaimer regarding the teaching of evolution in public schools, a New Jersey high school student in his challenge to a public school teacher's unconstitutional religious instruction and denigration of the science of evolution, and the National Center for Science Education in another case involving inappropriate religious teachings in the classroom.

Mr. Mancino is a member of ARIAS-US, the reinsurance arbitration organization, and is certified as a reinsurance arbitrator.  He is active in the Association of the Bar of the City of New York where he is a past chair of the Products Liability Committee and, as a former member of the Federal Courts Committee, helped write the Committee's report: "The Indefinite Detention of Enemy Combatants: Balancing Due Process and National Security in the Context of the War on Terror." He also serves as a court-appointed mediator in the southern and eastern districts of New York.

Mr. Mancino has been recognized by clients and his peers as a leading insurance and reinsurance law adviser in the 2002, 2004 and 2006 Guide to the World’s Leading Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyers (Legal Media Group).