Bill Carmody, the New York trial lawyer who recently helped former WeWork CEO Adam Neumann secure a reported $480 million settlement from SoftBank, considers himself a gambler.
“We want to bet on ourselves,” Carmody says of the results-based fee deals he often strikes with clients in high stakes corporate litigation. “We want to have skin in the game.”
Carmody won’t say how much SoftBank is paying Neumann—the Wall Street Journal reported the figure in late February—to resolve the dispute between the WeWork cofounder and what was once his biggest backer. He also won’t confirm or deny the Journal’s report that ...
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