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Press Releases
February 2010
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP has elected bankruptcy partners Patrick Gartland and Christopher Kiplok and financial litigation partner Neil Oxford in its New York office. The firm also named three new counsel. New Partners Patrick Gartland focuses on domestic- and foreign-debt restructurings and finance. At Hughes Hubbard, he has advised financial institutions in connection with several successful debt restructurings, including Société Générale, as administrative agent, in connection with the credit bid for an ethanol facility and the refinancing of a credit facility for a natural gas and electricity provider; WestLB AG in connection with several real estate securitizations; and Rabobank in connection with the bankruptcies of several ethanol producers. His finance practice focuses on representing financial institutions in connection with Latin American borrowers, including repurchase agreements and loan facilities. Gartland, 35, joined Hughes Hubbard in 2008 when the firm acquired the New York bankruptcy, creditors rights and finance firm Luskin, Stern & Eisler where Gartland was an associate from 2002 to 2008. Previously he was an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. He received his B.S. from the University of Scranton in 1996, summa cum laude, and his J.D. in 1999 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School where he was editor of the Law Review. Christopher K. Kiplok concentrates his practice in bankruptcy and corporate reorganization, including representation of creditors, debtors and trustees, and litigation, including professional liability and complex financial and securities litigation. Kiplok is counsel and principal deputy to the Trustee for the liquidation of Lehman Brothers Inc., where he oversees all administrative matters in the case. He has previously represented the Trustee for the A.R. Baron and New Times Securities liquidations and represented the largest individual customer of Refco Capital Markets, Inc. He has also recently represented an affiliate of Sun Capital Partners as secured lender and stockholder in the Lillian Vernon chapter 11, Aetna Inc. and affiliates in the Enron reorganization, and various other institutions in connection with judicial, out-of-court and crossborder restructurings. His litigation practice includes representation of trustees of trusts established to resolve hundreds of thousands of asbestos personal injury claims and representation of Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers in civil litigation and regulatory matters and disputes concerning derivative instruments and financial products. Kiplok, 35, is Chairman of the Advisory Council to Greenwich House, Inc., a New York City charity, and is a recipient of inMotion’s commitment to justice award for his pro bono representation of victims of domestic violence. He received a B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1997, and a J.D. from New York University School of Law in 2000. Neil Oxford focuses his practice on litigation, business disputes and professional liability. He has represented Deloitte, Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers in a broad range of civil litigation and regulatory matters, including securities fraud, malpractice and RICO issues. He is currently representing the Trustee for the liquidation of Lehman Brothers Inc., in a dispute arising from the sale of the bankrupt broker-dealer in September 2008. He has also represented Merck in its defense of Vioxx and Fosamax product-liability litigation. Oxford, 37, received his LL.B. (with First Class Honors) from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland in 1994, and his LL.M. (with First Class Honors) from the University of Cambridge, England in 1996. Prior to joining Hughes Hubbard & Reed in 2001, he qualified as solicitor in Scotland and practiced business litigation at Maclay Murray & Spens LLP in Glasgow. He is also founder and Secretary of the Scottish Bar Association of New York. New Counsel Eric Blumenfeld joined Hughes Hubbard in 2005. Working in the firm’s New Jersey office, he focuses his practice on complex civil litigation and products liability. His experience includes defending a leading United States pharmaceutical manufacturer in nationwide litigation involving a prescription drug and representing a leading products-testing laboratory in disputes related to product recalls. He also has expertise in leveraging technology to increase lawyer efficiency in multiple-case litigation. Blumenfeld, 42, received a B.S. Ch.E. from Johns Hopkins University in 1989, a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University in 1990 and a J.D. from the Rutgers School of Law — Newark in 1998. He was Managing Articles Editor of the Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal. He also served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Naomi G. Eichen, Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, from 1998 to 1999. George Douvas concentrates his practice in equipment finance with a focus in aviation finance. He represents major and regional airlines in financing transactions, including secured debt transactions, operating leases, leveraged leases, enhanced pass-through certificate transactions and manufacturer purchase agreements. He also has broad experience in representing financial institutions in connection with secured and unsecured credit facilities and is currently representing James Giddens, the SIPA Trustee of Lehman Brothers Inc., in the unwind of financial products, including foreign exchange, securities lending and repurchase transactions. Douvas, 37, received his B.S. from Vanderbilt University in 1994, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and his J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1999. Eric Parnes, who is based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office, is a member of the firm’s litigation practice. His experience includes the defense of a leading pharmaceutical manufacturer in nationwide false-claims act and consumer-protection litigation, representation of defendants in securities class actions and other shareholder litigation, representation of parties in commercial and international arbitration, and appellate advocacy in state and federal appellate courts. Parnes, 35, received his B.A. from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1999 and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, in 2002, cum laude. He was also Articles Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, an international law firm based in New York, is ranked #1 in New York and #2 nationally on The American Lawyer’s A-List of the “top firms among the nation’s legal elite.” The American Lawyer also ranked the firm #4 in “Top Growth Firms” among the nation’s 200 largest firms over the last 10 years.
August 2009
Hughes Hubbard announced that Kathryn Coleman has joined the firm as a partner in its New York office. She joins the firm from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP where she practiced for more than 20 years, leading the San Francisco office from 2000-2005 and serving most recently as a partner in the New York office.
Also joining Hughes Hubbard is Gibson Dunn counsel Eric Fromme, an accomplished federal-court litigator and corporate reorganization lawyer.
The two are the latest additions to Hughes Hubbard’s growing bankruptcy and corporate reorganization practice, which has doubled within the last year to 25 experienced insolvency lawyers. In October, the firm acquired the New York bankruptcy, creditors rights and finance firm Luskin, Stern & Eisler.
Ms. Coleman has extensive experience representing Chapter 11 debtors in possession, creditors’ committees, secured lenders groups, acquirers of distressed assets in and out of bankruptcy court, and equity stakeholders in connection with troubled investments and portfolio companies. She is particularly known for her work as lead counsel to Scotia Pacific in its highly contentious chapter 11 case, which was one of the first cases to be directly certified to the Circuit Court of Appeals from the Bankruptcy Court and set a number of important precedents.
Ms. Coleman was recently named one of the 100 “Most Influential Women in Business” by the San Francisco Business Times and is ranked by Best Lawyers in America as a leading bankruptcy and creditor-debtor rights lawyer.
Richard Stern, co-chair of Hughes Hubbard’s corporate reorganization and bankruptcy practice, said, “We have known Katie for many years and are very pleased she has chosen to join us. She is a terrific lawyer and there’s no doubt that having her here will help us serve our clients’ needs as corporate reorganizations grow more and more complex.” Ken Lefkowitz, co-chair of the firm’s corporate practice group, added, “We are very excited to have another experienced bankruptcy transactional lawyer who will augment our active mergers and acquisitions practice.”
Hughes Hubbard’s corporate reorganization and bankruptcy lawyers have played a leading role in some of the most widely publicized insolvency cases in the past twenty years. The firm is currently representing James Giddens, the co-chair of the practice, as Trustee of Lehman Brothers, Inc., and is also playing major roles in numerous high-profile chapter 11 cases and out-of-court workouts.
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, an international law firm based in New York, is ranked #1 in New York and #2 nationally on The American Lawyer’s A-List of the “top firms among the nation’s legal elite.” The American Lawyer also ranked the firm #4 in “Top Growth Firms” among the nation’s 200 largest firms over the last 10 years.
March 2009
Hughes Hubbard & Reed announced that John F. Wood, former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, will join the firm as a partner in its Washington, D.C. office.
Mr. Wood will enhance Hughes Hubbard’s considerable internal-investigation capabilities and add significant bench strength to the firm and the office, Kevin Abikoff, chair of the Firm’s anti-corruption practice group and co-chair of its securities litigation group, said. “John Wood combines great intellectual acumen with demonstrated professional experience and judgment that will well serve our clients, particularly when it comes to managing through the most difficult problems they face – be they litigation or governmental investigations,” Abikoff added.
For the past two years, Mr. Wood has served as the chief law enforcement official for the Western District of Missouri. During his tenure, the U.S. Attorney’s Office brought some of the most important and complex cases in the history of the district. Mr. Wood personally led an accounting and securities fraud investigation of a publicly traded corporation, resulting in a multi-million dollar corporate fine and guilty pleas by the former CEO and CFO. He also supervised high-profile cases involving: charges of importation of tainted pet food ingredients from China; alleged money laundering by a former U.S. congressman; international tax fraud; and steroid trafficking. He served on the U.S. Attorney General’s advisory committees on White Collar Crime and National Security.
As U.S. Attorney, Mr. Wood has been particularly active in the area of national security. He created a Terrorism & National Security Unit within the U.S. Attorney’s Office and targeted crimes – such as terrorist financing, money laundering and identity theft – that enable terrorist networks to operate. Most notably, he supervised the investigation of the Islamic-American Relief Agency. The IARA was indicted for allegedly sending money to Pakistan to benefit a terrorist who has pledged holy war against the United States and has engaged in terrorist acts for al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Previously, Mr. Wood was the Chief of Staff for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, advising Secretary Michael Chertoff. He has also held several high-level positions at the Department of Justice, including Deputy Associate Attorney General and Counselor to the Attorney General. He worked at the White House as Deputy General Counsel for the Office of Management & Budget. Earlier in his career, Mr. Wood practiced commercial and appellate litigation in the Washington, D.C. office of a national law firm.
Mr. Wood served as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and for Judge J. Michael Luttig on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, after receiving his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School (1996), where he served as Articles Chair of the Harvard Law Review. He received his B.A., with honors, from the University of Virginia (1992).
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP has offices in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Miami, Jersey City, Paris, and Tokyo and over 30 specialized practices. The firm is ranked #6 in the “top firms among the nation’s legal elite,” by The American Lawyer, as well as #4 in “Top Growth Firms” among the nation’s 200 largest firms over the last 10 years.
March 2009
Hughes Hubbard & Reed announced that Clark Siegel, formerly co-chair of the Intellectual Property Group and a member of the Entertainment Department at Irell & Manella, has joined Hughes Hubbard’s Los Angeles office as a partner. Mr. Siegel’s practice involves traditional entertainment and media, including film, television and video game development, production, distribution and finance, as well the convergence of technology and entertainment and the delivery and exploitation of content through new media, platforms and technology. In the early 1990s, Mr. Siegel was one of the first lawyers to become involved in legal matters relating to the Internet, and he continues to focus a significant portion of his practice in this area. His over 25 years of experience in entertainment, technology, media, communications and intellectual property have given him an interdisciplinary perspective and a unique ability to structure business relationships, models and transactions in situations where no templates exist.
Mr. Siegel is a “master at financing and structuring,” Chambers USA says in its latest edition. “Clark Siegel is widely recognized as an imposing presence in the field,” the publication observes. In addition to the Chambers guide, Mr. Siegel is recognized by many other legal publications including Best Lawyers in America, the Legal 500 U.S. guide, Los Angeles Magazine’s “Southern California Super Lawyers” and The Los Angeles Times “Best Lawyers in the West.”
“The demand for sophisticated, cutting-edge expertise in the areas of content, the Internet and technology continues to be of critical concern to our clients,” said Hughes Hubbard Chair Candace Beinecke. “We believe that with Dan Schnapp in New York, and now Clark Siegel in L.A., we can offer our clients an unparalleled bi-coastal capability in this area.”
Mr. Siegel has published widely on Intellectual Property matters and issues. Specific technologies and applications he has been involved with include digital cinema projection, CGI animation, video on demand and electronic sell-through, DVD, satellite and wireless delivery, peer-to-peer distribution, digital cable, digital video recorders, PDAs, cellular phones, interactive television, fiber-optic transmission, and other digital and analog applications. He received his B.A. in 1980 from Stanford University, Phi Beta Kappa, and his J.D. in 1984 from University of Chicago where he was a member of the University of Chicago Law Review.
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP has offices in Los Angeles, New York, Washington, D.C., Miami, Jersey City, Paris, and Tokyo, and over 30 specialized practices. The firm is ranked #6 in the “top firms among the nation’s legal elite” by The American Lawyer, as well as #4 in “Top Growth Firms” among the nation’s 200 largest firms over the last 10 years.
March 2009
Hughes Hubbard announced today that Marc Henry, who practices in both arbitration and business litigation, has joined the firm as a partner in its Paris office. The addition of Mr. Henry, formerly a partner in the Paris office of Lovells, along with a team that includes two associates, increases the size of Hughes Hubbard’s Paris arbitration group to 12 attorneys, making it one of the largest international arbitration practices in France.
“Hughes Hubbard has built a leading reputation for international arbitration, and it is our intention to keep developing this practice,” said arbitration practice co-chair José Rosell. Hughes Hubbard was the winner in 2008 of the Chambers USA “Award for Excellence” in International Arbitration. He noted that Mr. Henry will be particularly useful in supporting the firm’s practice in complex financial disputes as he has specific expertise in contract and tort law, shareholders and post-M&A disputes, banking and capital markets law, white collar crime and bankruptcy.
Mr. Henry whom Chambers Global called “a gifted trial lawyer” is fluent in French and English. He also speaks German. He received a Master degree in International Business Law (c um laude) in 1985, postgraduate degrees in Business Law and Economics and International Private Law and International Commercial Law, ( cum laude) in 1986, and a Doctor of Law in 1996 from the University of Paris Sorbonne Pantheon.
Mr. Henry has published widely and is a member of the French Committee of Arbitration, ICC French Committee of Arbitration, International Commission of the ICC, International Arbitration Institute, Swiss Arbitration Association, National Association of Doctors in Law, and the IBA.
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP has offices in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Miami, Jersey City, Paris, and Tokyo, and over 30 specialized practices. The firm is ranked #6 in the “top firms among the nation’s legal elite,” by The American Lawyer, as well as #4 in “Top Growth Firms” among the nation’s 200 largest firms over the last 10 years.
January 2009
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP announced that it has elected three new partners: Avner Ben-Gera in its New York office, Federico Goudie in its Miami office and Gregory M. Williams in its Washington, D.C. office.
Avner Ben-Gera is a member of the firm’s Corporate Department, where he focuses on domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions and other types of business combinations. Transactions that he has worked on at Hughes Hubbard include representing Northwest Airlines in its acquisition of Mesaba Aviation, Loews Corporation in its sale of Bulova, e2v technologies plc in its acquisition of QP Semiconductor and Cablevision in a series of sales and acquisitions. Mr. Ben-Gera is fluent in Dutch, French and Hebrew, and received his B.S. in economics in 1993, his M.S. in economics in 1995 and a tax L.L.M. in 1996 from the University of Antwerp. In 1999, he received his J.D. from New York University School of Law.
Federico Goudie has an international commercial and finance practice, which includes structured and trade financings, project financings, derivatives, mergers and acquisitions and venture capital transactions. His practice has a focus in Latin America and his clients include multinational corporations headquartered in the region and international financial institutions. At Hughes Hubbard, he has advised clients in various transactional and corporate matters, including Itaú in its derivative transactions, debt facilities and acquisitions, Embratel in connection with its operations outside Brazil as well as its debt facilities, Union Bank in various project financings of power generation and mining facilities throughout the United States, and Chindex International in project financings of hospital facilities in China. Mr. Goudie received his B.A. (magna cum laude) in 1994 from Florida State University and his J.D. in 1997 from New York University School of Law. He was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish.
Gregory M. Williams is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department. His practice is concentrated on Securities and General Commercial Litigation, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and Anti-Corruption counseling, due diligence and investigations and International Arbitration. At Hughes Hubbard, Greg has represented a number of the firm’s significant clients in litigation and arbitration matters, including currently representing Alstom SA in a class action securities action in the Southern District of New York and NTP, Inc. in patent infringement cases pending against Verizon, T-Mobile and Alltel in the Eastern District of Virginia. Further, he has significant anti-corruption experience, including representing a NYSE-traded company in connection with an FCPA inquiry concerning business in Nigeria and other parts of West Africa and the related Securities and Exchange Commission, Department of Justice and Senate inquiries. Greg obtained his B.A. in International Studies with honors from Austin College in 1991 and his M.A. in International Relations with distinction from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in 1993. In 1997, he graduated from University of Virginia Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review. He clerked for the Honorable Jacques L. Wiener, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in 1998-99.
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP has offices in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Miami, Jersey City, Paris, and Tokyo, and over 30 specialized practices. The firm is ranked #6 in the “top firms among the nation’s legal elite,” by The American Lawyer, as well as #4 in “Top Growth Firms” among the nation’s 200 largest firms over the last 10 years.
September 2008
Hughes Hubbard & Reed announced that it has acquired the acclaimed New York-based bankruptcy, creditors’ rights and finance firm Luskin, Stern & Eisler LLP.
Michael Luskin, Richard Stern and Nathan Eisler will join as partners and Patrick Gartland as counsel. Four associates will come with them. They will be based in the firm’s New York office and Richard Stern will co-chair Hughes Hubbard’s bankruptcy and restructuring practice.
The move brings Luskin, Stern & Eisler’s extensive experience in representing financial institutions in workouts, bankruptcies and lending transactions, and represents a significant expansion of Hughes Hubbard’s bankruptcy and restructuring practice. Co-chair James Giddens has represented the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) since its inception, has served as trustee or personal counsel in six major SIPC liquidations and has just been appointed trustee for the liquidation of Lehman Brothers Inc., the broker-dealer. HH&R has also represented financial institutions, including J.P. Morgan Chase and Merrill Lynch, in major workouts and bankruptcies. With the addition of LS&E, the firm will be positioned to better serve existing and new clients.
“Luskin, Stern & Eisler routinely goes toe-to-toe with the big players in major U.S. and cross-border insolvencies,” said Hughes Hubbard managing partner Chuck Scherer. “Now they’ll have a larger, deeper platform to do it from. And we’ll have an expanded restructuring practice when the time is clearly right.”
Luskin, Stern & Eisler, which Chambers USA has called a “fantastic boutique,” has focused on bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, loan restructurings, workouts and related litigation, and a wide variety of bank financing transactions. Its clients include financial institutions and foreign entities such as ABN AMRO Bank, Capital One Bank, Citigroup, M&T Bank, Merrill Lynch, Societe Generale, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and The Bank of Nova Scotia.
Michael Luskin is a graduate of Harvard Law School. He is a member of the New York State Bar Association, where he co-chairs the Creditors’ Rights and Banking Litigation Committee of the Commercial and Federal Litigation Section, the New York City Bar Association and The American Bankruptcy Institute, where he co-chaired the ABI’s 2006 and 2007 New York City Bankruptcy Conferences. He is a frequent CLE panelist and is listed in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.
Richard Stern is a graduate of Brooklyn Law School, where he was a senior editor of the Law Review. After law school, he was law clerk to Bankruptcy Judge Cecelia H. Goetz. He is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, a member of the Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and is listed in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.
Nathan Eisler is a 1983 cum laude graduate of Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he was a member of the Law Review. After law school, he was law clerk to Bankruptcy Judge Howard Schwartzberg. He lectures on lender liability and bankruptcy topics and is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, where he serves on the Structured Finance Committee.
Patrick Gartland is a 1999 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review. He was an associate in the banking department of Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP and then at Luskin, Stern & Eisler before becoming a partner in 2008.
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP has more than 30 specialized practices in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Miami, Jersey City, Paris and Tokyo. The firm is ranked among the top 10 in the The American Lawyer’s A-List of the “top firms among the nation’s legal elite” and in AmLaw’s “Top Growth Firms,” a survey of the nation’s 200 largest firms over the last 10 years.
August 2008
Hughes Hubbard announced that Diane E. Lifton, formerly the Drug and Medical Device team leader at Gibbons, has joined the firm in its New York and Jersey City offices.
Ms. Lifton focuses her practice in pharmaceutical and medical device litigation, representing Fortune 500 companies in their defense against cases involving prescription and OTC medications, medical devices and implants. She has served as national, regional and trial counsel in a number of mass torts, including litigations involving hormone therapy, medication for the treatment of acne and silicone-based medical products.
In addition, Ms. Lifton has extensive experience before the most active mass tort judges in New York and New Jersey. Her representative defense rulings over the years include summary judgments on the eve of trial, a directed verdict on punitive damages and a defense verdict on the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act.
“We believe Diane Lifton’s impressive trial experience will greatly enhance our products liability practice,” Chuck Scherer, Hughes Hubbard’s managing partner, said.
She also supports clients’ clinical research programs, advising them with respect to recruiting patients and drafting informed consent agreements in multi-centered research trials. To this and all of her work she brings a strong medical background. A former pre-medical student, she has in-depth knowledge in a variety of scientific disciplines, including toxicology, pharmacology, gastroenterology, plastic surgery, rheumatology, neurology and dermatology.
Winner of the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association’s Rising Star award in 2002, and the Tribute to Women In Industry (TWIN) award in 2006, Ms. Lifton has served as an adjunct instructor in medical device law at Seton Hall University, and is a frequent invited speaker on medical device litigation throughout the nation and abroad.She received her B.A. from Cornell University School of Arts and Science and her J.D. from University of Michigan Law School.
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP has offices in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Miami, Jersey City, Paris and Tokyo, and over 30 specialized practices. The firm is ranked #6 in the The American Lawyer’s A-List of the “top firms among the nation’s legal elite,” as well as #4 in AmLaw’s “Top Growth Firms,” a survey of the nation’s 200 largest firms over the last 10 years.
August 2008
Hughes Hubbard announced that Kenneth E. Lee, a litigator who practices in the areas of securities and commercial litigation, international arbitration and intellectual property litigation, has joined the firm as a partner in its New York office. Lee joins the firm from Thacher Proffitt & Wood, where he was a litigation partner. Prior to that, Lee was with Cravath, Swaine & Moore.
“The addition of Ken Lee will help us forge new relationships with financial institutions and enhance the firm’s significant litigation and arbitration resources,” said Chuck Scherer, Hughes Hubbard’s managing partner.
Mr. Lee is named a “Litigation Star” in the forthcoming 2nd edition of Benchmark Litigation, the Guide to America’s Leading Litigation Firms and Attorneys, published by Institutional Investor.
Mr. Lee has recently litigated matters involving: contested mergers and acquisitions, securities class actions, shareholder derivative actions and trade secret misappropriation for clients in the financial services and media and technology industries.
He has represented clients in federal and state trial and appellate courts, the International Trade Commission, as well as in international arbitrations, internal investigations and proceedings involving the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, the SEC and State Attorneys General.
Mr. Lee received his A.B. cum laude from Harvard College, where he studied economics. He received his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was the recipient of the Tony Patiño Fellowship and the Thomas Mulroy Prize.
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP has offices in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Miami, Jersey City, Paris and Tokyo, and over 30 specialized practices. The firm is ranked #6 in the The American Lawyer’s A-List of the “top firms among the nation’s legal elite,” as well as #4 in AmLaw’s “Top Growth Firms” among the nation’s 200 largest firms over the last 10 years.
July 2008
Hughes Hubbard announced that Kenneth J. Pierce, who practices in the area of international trade, has joined the firm as a partner in its Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Pierce is Department Head of the firm’s International Trade Remedies Group. The addition of Mr. Pierce, along with a team that includes counsels Robert L. LaFrankie and Victor S. Mroczka and associate Andrés A. Castrillon, significantly increases to 15 attorneys the size of Hughes Hubbard’s International Trade Practice, “signaling the firm’s commitment to our already strong international practice,” said Practice Chair Amanda DeBusk. The 2007 edition of Chambers USA observed when Mr. Pierce “puts his hand to something, he always does it well.” Mr. Pierce said, “My team and I are most fortunate to become a part of Hughes Hubbard’s excellent and rapidly expanding international practice, with its prominent and deep reach across core international concentrations.” Mr. Pierce’s practice includes the full range of U.S. international trade actions, such as antidumping and countervailing duty, safeguards, Section 301, Customs and GSP investigations. He has been lead defense counsel in dozens of trade investigations in the United States and other countries. These cases, many of them high profile, have involved a wide range of industries such as steel, auto and auto parts, aviation, energy, shrimp, metals, minerals, rice, electronics, chemicals, swine, consumer goods, and textiles and apparel, in several countries, including Japan, Mexico, Canada, Thailand, the European Community, Indonesia, South Africa, China, India, South Korea, Brazil, and Vietnam. Mr. Pierce leads the litigation and policy aspects of trade defenses at the agency, legislative, and federal judicial levels, and at the World Trade Organization, including settlement negotiations. His clients include major foreign manufacturers and their U.S.-based operations, foreign governments, trading houses, U.S. importers and consuming industries, and trade associations. Mr. Pierce received his J.D., cum laude, from Cornell Law School. Before law school, he served as a legislative assistant to U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy. Robert LaFrankie is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and served as senior counsel in the Office of Chief Counsel, International Trade Administration of the Commerce Department. Victor Mroczka received his J.D. from American University’s Washington College of Law and is a member of the board of the Customs and International Trade Bar Association and co-chair of the ABA’s Africa Committee. Andres Castrillon received his J.D. from the George Washington University Law School and as a fluent Spanish speaker, is focused on Latin American clients. Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP has offices in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Miami, Jersey City, Paris, and Tokyo, and over 30 specialized practices. The firm is ranked #6 in the “top firms among the nation's legal elite,” by The American Lawyer, as well as #4 in “Top Growth Firms” among the nation's 200 largest firms over the last 10 years.
January 2008
New York, NY January 22, 2008 — Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP is proud to announce that President George W. Bush has announced his intention to appoint our partner John M. Townsend to be a member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) for the remainder of a term expiring June, 19, 2008 and an additional six-year term.
ICSID is an international body, attached to the World Bank, which serves as a forum for adjudicating disputes between investors and states under the Washington Convention and other investment treaties. There are currently 155 signatory states to the ICSID Convention. Each member of ICSID, of which the United States is one, is entitled to designate up to four members of the Panel of Arbitrators. For the U.S., that is a Presidential appointment.
Mr. Townsend, who is Chair of Hughes Hubbard’s Arbitration and ADR Practice Group, also serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Arbitration Association, and was previously Chairman of the Mediation Committee of the International Bar Association. He is recognized as one of the leading arbitration lawyers in the U.S. by legal publications such as Chambers, which has described him as “dean of the international arbitration bar,” as well as LawDragon, Cross-Border Quarterly and The Best Lawyers in America.
January 28, 2008
New York, NY January 28, 2008 - Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP has elected two new partners, Scott Christensen in its Washington D.C. office and Beatrice Hamza-Bassey in the firm's New York office. The firm also named three new counsel.
New Partners
Scott H. Christensen is a member of the firm's Litigation Department, and focuses on commercial and banking litigation, as well as representation of not-for-profit organizations. Christensen represents the FDIC in litigation involving failed financial institutions, and is a member of the firm's Subprime Litigation Practice Group. Christensen is also a member of the firm's Not-for-Profit Practice Group. He has represented the Boy Scouts of America in its First Amendment cases. He also has advised universities and other not-for-profit organizations on First Amendment and other constitutional issues, as well as on matters of trustee and officer liability.
Christensen (41) joined the firm in 1997 in its New York office. He left in 1999 to serve as law clerk for the Honorable Paul Gadola of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Christensen re-joined the firm in 2001 as an associate in the D.C. office. Christensen received a B.A. from California State Polytechnic University in Pamona in 1998, graduating cum laude, and an M.A. in philosophy from the University of California in 1991. He received his J.D cum laude from New York University School of Law in 1997 where he was Editor-in-Chief of New York University Journal of International Law and Politics.
Beatrice Hamza-Bassey joined Hughes Hubbard as a first-year associate after receiving her L.L.M. from Harvard Law School in 1998. She had previously received her L.L.B. from the University of Maiduguri in Nigeria in 1994 and her Bachelors of Law from Nigeria Law School in 1995.
During her tenure at Hughes Hubbard, she has had significant experience on many important cases in the areas of class actions, product liability and multidistrict securities litigation. Recently, she has been involved in counseling clients on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, focusing on internal investigations and compliance programs.
In addition to her extensive experience, Hamza-Bassey has received recognition for her work as chair of Hughes Hubbard's Associate Task Force on Diversity. Under her leadership, the firm was ranked #1 in diversity among the nation's top 100 law firms by MultiCultural Law magazine in 2006 and rated higher than any other New York law firm in providing opportunities to women in a Harvard Law study. She attributes her commitment to diversity to her growing up in Nigeria shortly after the conclusion of a civil war, where Hamza-Bassey saw first hand the effect of ethnic and religious intolerance.
Hamza-Bassey (36) is a member of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution Arbitration Committee. She is the immediate past Secretary of the Litigation Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and has moderated panels for the City Bar. In addition, she is a former president of the Nigerian Lawyers Association and is currently the Chair of the Board of Directors of that organization and a Director of the McArthur Foundation's Nigeria Higher Education Foundation. She also serves on the Boards of Save Africa's Children and Twana Twitu, a Kenyan organization which helps support Kenya's AIDS orphans. In 2003, Hamza-Bassey was recognized by The Network Journal, which identified Beatrice as a "Top-40-under-40" - one of the 40 African-American individuals, all under the age of 40, who have achieved significant level of success and made substantial contributions in their careers and to their communities.
New Counsel
Federico A. Goudie joined Hughes Hubbard in 2000 from another major New York firm. Working in the firm's Miami office, he focuses his practice on corporate and finance matters, and has advised many of the firm's clients in project finance, structured finance, trade finance and derivatives transactions in the U.S. and Latin America. Goudie (36), was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish. He is a member of the Florida and New York bars, and received his B.A. from Florida State University, graduating magna cum laude in 1994, and his J.D. from New York University in 1997.
Jeffrey M. Greilsheimer came to the firm in 2003. He focuses his practice in the area of professional liability including securities fraud, common-law fraud, negligence claims and regulatory issues. His experience includes securities class actions, shareholder derivatives suits and directors' and officers' liability claims. Greilsheimer (35) received his A.B. from Dartmouth College in 1994 and his J.D. from Fordham University in 1997.
Jason Habinsky joined Hughes Hubbard in 1996 as a first-year associate. He is a member of the firm's Labor & Employment Practice with experience in counseling compliance with federal and state EEO laws, negotiating employment and severance agreements and litigating employment-related disputes including employment discrimination claims and trade secret and non-compete disputes. He also has experience in collective bargaining negotiations and litigation arising under labor contracts before the NLBR, arbitrators and courts. Habinsky (36) received his B.A. from Union College in 1993 and his J.D. from Tulane Law School in 1996.
Hughes Hubbard and Reed has offices in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Miami, Jersey City, Paris and Tokyo, and over 30 specialized practices.
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