I haven’t quite been able to find a good story on the corruption of the big international law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, which was also involved in lobbying for Ukraine with Mercury and Podesta, and also “forgot” to register as a foreign agent, but I found some interesting connections…Firestarter wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2017 5:15 pmEven more interesting is the “lobbying” for the European Center for Modern Ukraine (ECFMU) by Mercury LLC (of Manafort and his employee Rick Gates) and the Podesta Group from 2012 to 2014. ECFMU was affiliated with Viktor Yanukovych, who was the president of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014. Yanukovych is pro-Putin and had to flee the country after protesters overthrew his government. He was reportedly helped by Putin to escape to Russia.
Reportedly Podesta and Manafort had to lobby the message that Ukraine’s 2012 election was really democratic and that the country’s leaders wanted to move further away from Putin and closer to the West.
The Dutch (former?) attorney Alex van der Zwaan worked for the London branch of Skadden… In 2018, he pleaded guilty to lying to the US Special Counsel's Office over his Ukraine/Russian contacts for which he got a slap on the wrist of 30 days in prison and a fine of $20,000. Van der Zwaan also deleted emails between him and Manafort associate Konstantin Kilimnik (a Russian intelligence agent also associated with Oleg Deripaska).
In December 2020, president Trump pardoned him.
In November 2017, Van der Zwaan was fired by Skadden… for his gross misconduct of … lying (something ALL attorneys do), and on 3 July 2019 was disbarred in England and Wales.
Van der Zwaan, with 8 other Skadden … crooks attorneys, worked on a 2012 report for Paul Manafort that defended the unlawful prosecution, conviction and imprisonment of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's rival, Yulia Tymoshenko.
In June 2017, Van der Zwaan married Eva, daughter of the Russian billionaire German Khan, co-founder and co-owner of the Alfa Group.
See circled German Khan at the wedding of his daughter to Alex van der Zwaan.

Van der Zwaan repeatedly provided Ukrainian oligarch Gennadiy Bogolyubov with legal counselling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_van_der_Zwaan
Bogolyubov together with Ihor Kolomoisky (Zelensky’s puppet master) and Oleksiy Martynov controlled the Privat Group (of which PrivatBank is a subsidairy)…
.Firestarter wrote: ↑Tue Mar 29, 2022 9:16 pmAll the Trump-loving Clinton-Biden haters know that Joe's misfit son Hunter Biden got lots of cash for sitting on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma.
Now it appears that Volodymyr Zelensky's sugar daddy Ihor Kolomoisky controlled Burisma through the PrivatBank.
Skadden … also represented the AAR consortium of Russian oligarchs including Mikhail Fridman and German Khan in its legal battle with BP in 2011. Skadden … later also represented Fridman when the UK government forced his L1 investment vehicle to sell gas fields in the North Sea.
Alex van der Zwaan also assisted Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich's businesses in relation to mining assets in Ukraine.
Skadden … also advised Abramovich in his court battle with Boris Berezovsky.
Roman Abramovich even selected the head of Skadden’s European operations, Bruce Buck, for chairman of the Chelsea football club after he had helped him acquire it in 2003: https://archive.is/EWc7e
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.Firestarter wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 7:24 pmIn 2010, Vitesse Arnhem was bought "by" the Georgian former professional soccer player Merab Jordania. Jordania was a friend of Roman Abramovich, the Chabad-Lubavitcher owner of Chelsea London. So there have been (denied) rumours that Merab Jordania was nothing but a strawman for Abramovich that have now finally been confirmed.
Abramovich indeed secretly funded the Vitesse takeover and subsequent investments with at least €117 million, a big sum compared to the purchasing price for Vitesse, a mere €8 million and its total turnover in 2014-15 of €14 million.
For the 2012 report, Van der Zwaan worked closely with Gregory B. Craig, who resigned from Skadden … after the indictment of Van der Zwaan.
Craig at Harvard had become associated with none other than Henry Kissinger.
At Yale Law School, Craig was in the same class as Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham. He became special counsel for president Clinton in the Lewinsky impeachment show.
Craig later supported Barack Obama for president after he had first met the Obamas in 2003, and was his White House Counsel in 2009 and 2010: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_B._Craig
Another Skadden … partner, Robert Stephen Bennett, also represented Clinton in the Lewinsky scandal.
Bennett also represented…
Caspar Weinberger in the Iran–Contra cover-up;
Clark Clifford in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) scandal;
Paul Wolfowitz in the World Bank scandal.
Bennett was also special counsel for the US Senate Ethics Committee's 1989–1991 “investigation” of the Keating Five.
In 2008, Bennett was hired by the Keating five’s John McCain (to thank him for the cover-up investigation?!?): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_S._Bennett
Before Mark N. Kaplan became a senior partner at Skadden he was the CEO of Drexel Burnham Lambert from 1970 to 1977…
In 1977, junk bond swindler Michael Milken became chairman of Drexel Burnham, he was later pardoned by president Donald…
viewtopic.php?p=5137#p5137Firestarter wrote:Billions of dollars were now flowing out of and through Lincoln and Keating, to Lindner and his co-conspirators at Drexel Burnham.
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has even repeatedly collaborated with my “favourite” Dutch law firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek from at least 2010 to 2024:
(in Dutch) https://web.archive.org/web/20240424195 ... om/page/2/
(in Dutch) https://mena.nl/artikel/greenhill-skadd ... laserdeal/
https://archive.is/YUpFh
viewtopic.php?p=2744#p2744Firestarter wrote:The law firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek (the largest law firm in the Netherlands), that represented me in front of the Supreme Court (Hoge Raad) in my court case against ABN AMRO to harm my interests, is the law firm that also regularly represents both ABN AMRO and Rabobank (that blocks my bank accounts since June 3, 2015). In November 2008 Rabobank and Rothschild started cooperating in mergers and acquisitions, with legal counselling of De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek (ABN AMRO has for many years been connected to Rothschild). Jaap W. Winter of De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek was invited to the Bilderberg conference of 2011 (coincidently when De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek was representing me).