50 Cent, in a number of disputes including a suit accusing him of stealing content from a third party protected under copyright law. Represented French luxury perfumes and cosmetics house Lancôme, part of the L'Oréal Luxury Products division, against actress Uma Thurman. Represented global financial services holding company The Bank of New York Mellon as trustee or fiscal agent with respect to various bonds issued by governmental instrumentalities of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The Commonwealth and its instrumentalities have approximately $70 billion in debt that they cannot afford to pay and are seeking to restructure. Represented multinational financial services company in the largest municipal bankruptcy case in U.S. history in Jefferson County, Alabama, listing more than $4 billion in outstanding long-term debt as of the filing date. Reed Smith represented BNY Mellon to fend off a $539 million suit brought by bondholders against the bank in the Argentina bond default litigation. Represented Toyota Motor Credit Corp. in securing $15 billion in financing through a syndicated credit facility. Advised the Civil Aviation Authority (United Kingdom) pension scheme on a buy-in worth over £1.6 billion with specialist insurer Rothesay Life. Reed Smith successfully defended Nintendo against a number of patent disputes by Motion Games. Notable staff Attorneys who have worked at Reed Smith include: Steven Drizin, lawyer and law professor at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law Philander C. Knox, Knox and Reed co-founder; bank director; politician who served as United States Attorney General; Senator from Pennsylvania; Secretary of State James Hay Reed, founding member of the firm; United States federal judge Rip Sullivan, Northern Virginia community activist; member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Virginia's 48th district Jack McGregor, former Pennsylvania State Senator from Pittsburgh; founder of the National Hockey League's Pittsburgh Penguins Cathy Bissoon, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania judge David W. Marston, United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; author Paul Martha, former American football safety in the NFL; CEO of Pittsburgh Penguins Sheryl H. Lipman, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee; former Counsel to the University of Memphis Thomas Hardiman, federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; former United States District Court judge Ralph H. Demmler, corporate banking law specialist; chair of the U.S. Securities and