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Alston & Bird represented Veritiv, a leading provider of packaging and portfolio company of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, in its acquisition of PAX Global, a distributor and converter of custom packaging products.

Alston & Bird has won a $7.3 million award for Cigna Health & Life Insurance Co. in its lawsuit against three South Florida clinical laboratories for wrongfully billing Cigna for medically unnecessary drug tests. After an eight-day trial, a federal jury in New Haven, Connecticut returned a verdict in Cigna’s favor for $7.3 million.

Alston & Bird has been honored as one of the nation’s top law firms in the 2025 edition of Best Law Firms®, ranked by Best Lawyers. The firm received 25 national tier-one practice rankings and 101 metropolitan tier-one practice rankings across all U.S. offices.

Alston & Bird successfully defended Nokia of America Corporation against allegations that its router products infringed three patents owned by Correct Transmission. On November 5, an Eastern District of Texas jury cleared Nokia of all claims of infringement, finding that all three asserted patents were not infringed. After a brief deliberation, the verdict secured a complete victory for Nokia.

Alston & Bird was proud to represent Lewis & Clark Regional Water System, an organization dedicated to constructing and operating a first-of-its-kind tristate drinking-water system, in securing over $26.8 million in funding from the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee for the 2025 fiscal year. The project, which has received a long history of bipartisan support and will be complete in 2028, will deliver 45 million gallons of safe drinking water per day to over 350,000 people in South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa. The effort was recently featured in this video shared by President Biden on the impact of the work.