Sylvius Von Saucken

Sylvius von Saucken is the General Manager of Epiq’s Mass Tort Solutions, a/k/a the Garretson Resolution Group, having served the mass tort industry as a thought leader and problem solver for some of the nation’s largest and most complex mass tort settlements

Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Mr. von Saucken also works extensively on Epiq’s relationships with the United States Federal Government, including the Office of General Counsel, Dept. of Veterans’ Affairs.  Mr. von Saucken, in conjunction  with his then-partner, Matthew Garretson, worked closely with Sr. U.S. District Court Judge, Alvin K. Hellerstein, as part of the team that designed the settlement paradigm in In re World Trade Ctr. Disaster Site Litig., 270 F. Supp. 2d 357, 361 (S.D.N.Y. 2003).

Education
Mr. von Saucken holds a B.A. in Diplomacy / Foreign Affairs & Political Science from Miami University (OH) and a J.D. from the Salmon P. Chase College of Law, where he has served as an adjunct professor, co-teaching courses in Federal Wealth Transfer Taxation and Estate Planning.

Notable Cases

• served as the Successor Trustee of the (BP) Medical Settlement Trust, which is the administration vehicle for the BP Oil Spill Medical Settlement  established in In Re: Oil Spill by the Oil Rig “Deepwater Horizon” in the Gulf of Mexico, on April 20, 2010, MDL No. 2179, involving over 250,000 claims, a Gulf Coast Outreach program, and hundreds of millions of dollars of payments over the past seven years; 
• oversaw Epiq’s administration of the Tronox, Inc. Tort Claims Trust, in In re Tronox Incorporated, et al., Case No. 09-10156 (Hon. Michael E. Wiles), an environmental remediation trust involving more than 40,000 claims and hundreds of millions of dollars; 

• oversaw Epiq’s administration of both fund administration and lien resolution activities in: (i) In re: National Football League Players’ Concussion Injury Litigation, MDL No. 2323, and (ii) Denhollander v. Michigan State University, Lead Case No.1-17-cv-29 (Hon. Gordon J. Quist), the nation’s first #MeToo settlement involving the survivors of sexual abuse at the hands of convicted felon, Dr. Lawrence Nassar