CERTAIN FUNDS, ACCOUNTS &/OR INV. VEHICLES v. KPMG

Docket No. 14-2838.

798 F.3d 113 (2015)

CERTAIN FUNDS, ACCOUNTS AND/OR INVESTMENT VEHICLES Managed by Affiliates of Fortress Investment Group L.L.C., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. KPMG, L.L.P., KPMG International Cooperative, PricewaterhouseCoopers L.L.P., PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: August 20, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David S. Torborg , Jones Day, Washington, D.C. ( Louis K. Fisher , David T. Raimer , Jones Day, Washington, D.C., Thomas E. Lynch , Jones Day, New York, N.Y., on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Allison B. Jones ( Kannon K. Shanmugam , on the brief), Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, D.C., for defendant-appellee KPMG L.L.P.

Kenneth M. Katz ( William R. Maguire , Yoshinori Sasao , on the brief), Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, New York, N.Y., for defendant-appellee KPMG International Cooperative.

Anthony L. Ryan ( Thomas G. Rafferty , Samira Shah , on the brief), Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, N.Y., for defendant-appellee PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited.

James J. Capra, Jr. , King & Spalding LLP, New York, N.Y., for defendant-appellee PricewaterhouseCoopers L.L.P.

Before: JACOBS, CALABRESI, and LYNCH, Circuit Judges.


In this case, we consider several aspects of 28 U.S.C. § 1782, the statute providing assistance to litigants in proceedings before foreign and international tribunals. The statute authorizes a district court, "upon the application of any interested person," to order a party "found" in the judicial district in...

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