Berkshire Hathaway Claims Law Firm Aided $756 Million Fraud

(Bloomberg) — A unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. claims a top international law firm helped German piping component maker Wilhelm Schulz GmbH fraudulently conceal its disastrous finances before its 2017 acquisition by the U.S. company.Berkshire unit Precision Castparts Corp. sued 2,500-lawyer Jones Day, which represented Schulz in the $940 million acquisition, in a state court in Houston, alleging the firm played a “substantial role in aiding and abetting” a scheme to mislead Precision into signing a deal worth a fraction of the purchase price.The suit is an attempt to put Jones Day on the hook in case Schulz …read more

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