About Us
MM~LAW’s success in bringing banks and corporations that fund and support terrorists to justice and securing compensation for victims of terrorism has made it one of the most successful counter-terrorism/human rights law firms in the world. For his work in developing the legal theory and legislative solutions that have allowed victims of terrorism to hold the banks accountable that enable the funding of terrorists, MM~LAW founding partner, Gavi Mairone, was named 2016 “Trial Lawyer of the Year” by Public Justice Foundation.
Prior to 2001, MM~LAW was a boutique law firm specializing in U.S. and international taxation. Today, MM~LAW applies that knowledge and experience to targeting the international financial and support networks funding, enabling and profiting from terrorism and international human rights violations.
In 2001, MM~LAW dedicated itself to the exclusive representation of victims of international terrorism, on a contingency bases, and formed its human rights and counterterrorism research group, a unique research division dedicated to legal and operational research primarily in Arabic and Farsi, but also in English, French, German, Hebrew, Kurdish, Portuguese, Dutch and Spanish. MM~LAW has evolved into a global leader in documenting the financing of international terrorism, crimes against humanity, genocide, war crimes, torture, human trafficking, and slavery. Currently, MM~LAW represents over 19,000 victims of such heinous crimes in complex civil lawsuits against international financial and commercial institutions and designated state sponsors of terrorism and their co-conspirators, who are complicit with, participate in, enable, assist, aid, abet, finance or profit from such crimes. MM~LAW is a Chicago based victims’ rights law firm with global reach, with representative offices in the East Africa and the Middle East.
