Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP — United States

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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.

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Andrew H. Braiterman

Andy Braiterman is a partner in the New York office of Hughes Hubbard & Reed and chair of the firm’s Tax practice. · Tax

Andrés Berry

Partner · Banking and Finance

Candace Beinecke

Corporate transactions, governance and internal investigations. · Corporate Transactions

Charles Samuelson

Partner at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP since 2006. · Mergers and Acquisitions

Charles W. Cohen

Partner; Co-Chair eDiscovery Practice Group. Practice focuses on: (1) complex, multi-jurisdictional domestic and international litigation, and (2) counseling clients regarding electronic discovery and information management. · Litigation

Christopher K. Kiplok

Corporate Reorganization and Bankruptcy, with a particular expertise in the liquidation of brokerage firms and financial firm insolvency; Litigation; Professional Liability; Securities Litigation. · Corporate Reorganization and Bankruptcy

Daniel Leslie

Partner · Project Finance

Daniel Weiner

Commercial Litigation International and Domestic Arbitration Intellectual Property Disputes Art and Non-Profit Law. · Commercial Litigation

David Rubenstein

Member · Real Estate

Derek Adler

Partner at Hughes, Hubbard & Reed LLP. · International Litigation and Arbitration

Gaela Gehring Flores

Gaela Gehring Flores is Co-Chair of Hughes Hubbard's International Arbitration practice group in the Washington, D.C., office. · International Arbitration

James C. Fitzpatrick

General litigation and trial practice, with extensive experience in pharmaceutical products litigation and music licensing litigation. Counseling of pharmaceutical clients has included work in connection with Congressional and other governmental inquiries, media, and international litigation. · Complex Litigation

James Kobak

Senior Ethics Counsel in the New York Office · Antitrust

John Townsend

John M. Townsend is litigation senior counsel in the Washington, D.C., office of Hughes Hubbard & Reed. · Litigation

Kathryn A. Coleman

Partner in the New York Office · Corporate Reorganization & Bankruptcy

Kenneth Lefkowitz

Concentrates on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, public and private financings, corporate governance, proxy contests, venture capital private equity. Read his full bio. · Mergers and Acquisitions

Marc Weinstein

Marc A. Weinstein is chair of the White Collar & Regulatory Defense group and a partner in the Securities Fraud Litigation and Professional Liability groups. · White Collar & Regulatory Defense

Mark Denham

Mark Denham is a partner in the Corporate and Finance group of Hughes Hubbard & Reed in Miami. · Aviation

Meaghan Gragg

Partner in the New York and Miami Office · Art Law

Michael Traube

Partner in the New York Office · Mergers and Acquisitions

Patrice Jean

Chair of Hughes Hubbard's Life Sciences group · Patent Law

Robb Patryk

Robb is a trial lawyer and serves as the firm’s Managing Partner. He also is a member of the firm's Executive Committee - He focuses on complex litigation related to tort and fraud claims involving the sale of consumer, industrial, and medical products and securities. Robb has over 30 years of experience in the national and international defense of numerous mass torts involving prescription drugs, medical devices, pesticides, asbestos, tobacco, dietary supplements, machinery, blood products, specialty chemicals, motor vehicles and petroleum products. Robb has significant knowledge in particular of the pharmaceutical, medical device, tobacco, and specialty chemical industries, and serves as a trusted advisor to companies in those arenas in navigating the legal and regulatory challenges presented. His many significant matters include the defense of Merck & Co. Inc. in Vioxx and Vytorin litigation, the defense of an oil refiner in MTBE litigation, the defense of Ferro Corp. in multiple, alleged water contamination cases involving 1,4 dioxane, and multiple jury trials for Lorillard Tobacco Company. Robb was Co-Chair of the firm’s Product Liability & Toxic Tort Group from 1999 - 2023. Read his full bio. · Complex Litigation

Robert B. Bell

Senior Counsel in the Washington, D.C. Office · Antitrust

Seth Rothman

Seth D. Rothman is a litigation partner at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP. He is also chair of the firm’s Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice Group and the co-chair of the Information Governance & eDiscovery Practice Group. · Complex Commercial Litigation

Spencer L. Harrison

Spencer L. (Jerry) Harrison is a co-chair of the firm's Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation practice and advises clients on all aspects of employee benefits and executive compensation. · Employee Benefits

Steven Chung

Aviation, Equipment Finance, Satellite/Telecoms, Banking and Financial Services, International, Joint Ventures and Other Strategic Alliances, Mergers and Acquisitions. Read his full bio. · Aviation

Theodore Mayer

Theodore V.H. Mayer is senior counsel and former chair of Hughes Hubbard & Reed. He previously served as chair of the firm’s Litigation department. His practice focuses on product liability and on complex litigation generally. · Product Liability

William Beausoleil

William J. Beausoleil is a litigation partner in Hughes Hubbard & Reed’s New York office with extensive experience in product liability, insurance coverage and general commercial litigation matters. · Product Liability

William J. Kolasky

Partner in the Washington, D.C. Office · Antitrust

William Maguire

Partner, New York since 1993. Concentrates on securities and commercial litigation and trial work. · Securities Litigation