Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP

Chair: Neil J. Oxford

Managing Partner: Robb Patryk

US Offices: New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Miami, Kansas City

International Offices: Paris, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro**

Firm Overview:

In an increasingly global and interconnected world, Hughes Hubbard sets itself apart as a robust but nimble firm, mobilizing talent quickly to address our clients’ largest and most challenging matters, while providing consistently high quality and responsive service.

Our international approach, which spans the Americas, Asia, Europe, Africa and the Middle East, is rooted in our global talent. Our bench of leading corporate attorneys, litigators and regulatory attorneys hail from more than 20 countries and speak more than 24 languages. This diversity enables us to bring local language capability and cultural sensitivity to our clients’ complex cross-border matters. Thanks to our language and cultural capabilities, we are frequently selected to represent and work with leading international companies in the United States and around the world.

Based in New York City, we provide strategic advice to clients in more than 40 areas, including our leading corporate, mergers and acquisitions, and aviation finance practices, as well as litigation, arbitration, sanctions, investigations, and compliance, among others. Our Paris office, founded nearly 60 years ago, has attained a stellar reputation as the firm’s European hub, handling matters of all types on a global scale and exponentially increasing the firm’s reach. Hughes Hubbard’s additional, and strategically placed, office presences include Washington, D.C., Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, and Tokyo, as well as our Rio de Janeiro location in cooperation with Saud Advogados.

Areas of Practice:

Litigation

Clients turn to Hughes Hubbard litigators for practical solutions to their most complex legal disputes. Hailed as a “litigation powerhouse” by Law360, our strength stems from the depth and breadth of our experience in litigating at all court levels in a wide range of practice areas. While we seek to resolve litigation as early as possible, we also possess the experience and resources to try cases to verdict through leanly staffed teams and partners who provide clients with individualized attention.

Finance

Hughes Hubbard represents many of the world’s leading financial institutions in complex derivative and financial products transactions. Our teams act as lead arrangers, administrative agents, collateral agents and participant lenders in a wide variety of cutting edge, cross border syndicated and bilateral loan facilities, with a particular emphasis on acquisition financings, trade finance transactions, project financings and financial restructurings. What’s more, our one-of-a-kind aviation practice represents some of the world’s leading industry players in their most important transactions.

Corporate Reorganization & Bankruptcy

Deeply experienced and commercially savvy deal lawyers with a full team of stand-up litigators, our Corporate Reorganization & Bankruptcy group represents companies, creditors and trustees in complex restructurings – both in and out of court – and in the multiple types of litigation that insolvency proceedings can generate. We have achieved 100 percent recoveries for customers and distributed billions to creditors in the liquidations of Lehman Brothers Inc. and MF Global Inc., the largest and eighth largest bankruptcies in history. In addition to financial services insolvency, we also have extensive experience in restructurings involving aviation, commodities, energy, manufacturing, media and entertainment, retail, shipping and technology.

International Arbitration

Hughes Hubbard’s diverse and multilingual Arbitration practice thrives as part of a global economy that crosses borders and legal systems. The counsel we provide our clients in high stakes business and political disputes is informed by our deep understanding of the processes and players, which is why Global Arbitration Review calls us “[o]ne of the world’s leading international arbitration firms.” Our attorneys have decades of experience in proceedings conducted under all major arbitration rules and have worked alongside leading arbitration practitioners from around the world.

M&A

In today’s global economy, strong M&A representation requires deep talent, substantial experience and international capabilities. At Hughes Hubbard, our lawyers are fully equipped and qualified to assist clients in structuring, negotiating and implementing both hostile and friendly M&A transactions in the U.S. and abroad. Our Paris office maintains an active European M&A practice, and our Miami office serves as the base for our Latin American transactional practice, while lawyers in our other domestic offices and in Tokyo support our work with clients based in Asia. Since each situation is unique, our lawyers develop and implement customized strategies that effectively support client objectives in a full range of M&A transactions.

Investigations

Hughes Hubbard’s Anti-Corruption & Internal Investigations practice is internationally known for having the talent, experience and depth to represent clients across the full spectrum of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act matters. Our team of highly qualified, international and multilingual attorneys includes former U.S. DOJ prosecutors, former investigators from multilateral development banks, former inhouse attorneys and highly experienced outside counsel from around the world. This full-service practice group has also counseled clients and conducted investigations and compliance reviews in more than 90 countries, in front of the DOJ, SEC, PNF, French Anti-Corruption Agency, SFO, Brazilian CGU, Brazilian MPF, World Bank, United Nations, U.S. Congress, AfDB and ADB.