Bloomberg Law
June 30, 2016, 3:47 PM UTC

Top GE Lawyer Tips Hat to Legal Team in ‘Too Big to Fail’ Victory

Casey Sullivan

It’s a good day at General Electric.

After shedding millions in assets, the company earlier this week got financial regulators off its back, ridding itself of a ‘too big to fail’ designation that indicated it was a threat to the U.S. financial system.

Alex Dimitrief, GE’s top lawyer, said he couldn’t be happier.

“This was complicated stuff,” said Dimitrief in an interview about all the legal work that went into the designation-switch.

“We knew what we needed to do and we knew what we needed to show,” said Dimitrief.

Dimitrief pointed to an outside legal team led by Rodge Cohen, of Sullivan ...

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