Securities Litigation

Hughes Hubbard’s Securities Litigation Practice Group has extensive experience representing corporations, professionals, individual directors and officers, and broker-dealers in securities-related class actions, shareholder derivative litigation, investigations, criminal prosecutions, and administrative proceedings. We have defended and prosecuted securities cases involving various industries, including accounting, banking, computers, commodities, energy, insurance, investment banking, manufacturing, mutual funds, pharmaceutical, securities, wholesale, and retail.

Attorneys in the Securities Litigation Practice Group have represented public and private companies, registered securities broker-dealers, directors and officers, underwriters and other outside professionals, investors, the FDIC and SIPC in all types of securities and commodities litigation, including civil securities fraud class action litigation, arbitrations, criminal litigation, governmental inquiries and administrative proceedings by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, and stock exchanges and other self-regulatory organizations. The firm also has extensive experience associating with insurance carriers in the defense of these matters and understands the complexities and nuances of working with carriers in these complex situations.

Hughes Hubbard also has represented corporations and individuals in high-level and delicate internal investigations for more than 40 years. With recent changes in the law, we have added lawyers with substantial experience in criminal law gained through working in the most prominent prosecutorial offices in the country. Hughes Hubbard’s experience in conducting internal investigations includes civil and criminal investigations into alleged accounting abuses of corporate expense accounts and gift and travel policies in a wide range of industries. We also have vast experience in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act matters stretching back 30 years.

Whether prevailing on a motion to dismiss, negotiating a favorable settlement, trying a case to a jury, or representing a client at any stage in between, Hughes Hubbard attorneys have a proven track record of obtaining positive results for its clients in critical cases.