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Senior law partner spearheads French fight for Executive Life.


Engineering the drive of French team Altus France and Mutuelle Assurance Artisanale de France Mauf on troubled life insurer Executive Life is John Hartigan This article concerns the fictional character John Hartigan in a series of graphic novels. For the United States federal judge, see John Patrick Hartigan.

Detective John Hartigan is a major protagonist in the Sin City
, 41, senior partner at the downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or  law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius.

"I have been wearing a number of different hats in helping the bid," said Hartigan last week, "working with government agencies, investors and policyholders." Hartigan is expected to take a seat on Los Angeles-based Executive Life's board when the dust settles.

The Georgetown law graduate is well briefed for his current duties, which he has had since February. He is a former Securities and Exchange Commission assistant director of enforcement and helped clean up the Baldwin-United insurance collapse, in the mid-1980s.

Local securities industry denizens also will remember Hartigan as the man tapped in 1989 by the SEC to write, implement and monitor a new compliance manual for Drexel Burnham Lambert Drexel Burnham Lambert was a major Wall Street investment banking firm, which first rose to prominence and then was driven into bankruptcy in the 1980s by its involvement in illegal activities in the junk bond market, driven by Drexel employee Michael Milken. , the now-defunct brokerage house. The manual would have specified procedures for Drexel to follow to comply with securities laws -- "but Drexel went bankrupt BANKRUPT. A person who has done, or suffered some act to be done, which is by law declared an act of bankruptcy; in such case he may be declared a bankrupt.
     2. It is proper to notice that there is much difference between a bankrupt and an insolvent.
 before I could finish the review," said Hartigan.

At Executive Life, Hartigan will have to help the French decide what to do about the 43 percent of Executive Life's portfolio made up of bonds in various degrees of restructuring restructuring - The transformation from one representation form to another at the same relative abstraction level, while preserving the subject system's external behaviour (functionality and semantics). , default or bankruptcy. "We have our work cut out," said Hartigan.
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Title Annotation:John Hartigan of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius; Altus France and Mutuelle Assurance Artisanale de France Mauf; Executive Life Insurance Co.
Author:Cole, Benjamin Mark
Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
Article Type:Brief Article
Date:Nov 18, 1991
Words:221
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