DARYL LIBOW

LIBOW--Daryl.

The lawyers and staff at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP mourn the tragic loss, at age 59, of our partner Daryl Libow. Daryl died on November 7 in Washington, D.C. following a valiant battle with cancer. Daryl's wife, Beth, and his two daughters, Jess and Claudia, are and always will be part of our family. Daryl spent his entire 32- year career at Sullivan & Cromwell, joining the Firm as an associate following his graduation from Cornell Law School. As an associate, Daryl worked at the Firm's offices in New York and London. After his election to the partnership in the fall of 1993, Daryl moved to Sullivan & Cromwell's Washington office, where he became the office's managing partner in 2006. A leader of our litigation group and the co-head of our antitrust practice, Daryl built a remarkable career as a litigator and trusted counselor, working on numerous complex antitrust and securities matters and other bet-the- company disputes. Daryl practiced before the Department of Justice, various federal agencies, and federal and state courts throughout the country, representing foreign and domestic companies in their most important cases, transactions and investigations. The trust his clients placed in him was such that companies of the stature of British Airways and BP returned to him for decades with their most critical matters. The crowning moment of Daryl's career, cementing his standing as one of the country's top lawyers, was his 2015 representation of BP in its historic settlement with federal, state and local governments relating to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Beyond his distinguished legal practice at Sullivan & Cromwell, Daryl was a member of the boards of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, the Ellington Fund at the Duke Ellington School of Arts in Washington, and Human Rights First. He was also a member of the Dean's Advisory Council of Cornell Law School and served on the Board of Trustees of Maret School. We are blessed to have shared the last three decades with Daryl. To us, he was so much more than the sum of his many professional accomplishments. He was a loyal and selfless friend, a mentor and role model, a diehard sports fan, a down-to- earth presence, and a warm and generous spirit, blessed with great wit and brilliant insights. Daryl was simply the best among us. We share our profound loss with everyone who knew, loved and respected him.