Hughes Hubbard provided legal counsel on three transactions that were named 2012 “Deals of the Year” by Airfinance Journal, the leading financial intelligence source for the aviation industry.
Hughes Hubbard & Reed’s bankruptcy group represented the LBI Trustee, James W. Giddens, chair of Hughes Hubbard’s Corporate Reorganization Group, in negotiating and resolving disputes with Lehman Brothers Holdings LBHI and LBIE. These settlements, approved by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge James M. Peck, are among the largest in history and together resolve more than $100 billion in claims and dispositions of property.
Hughes Hubbard delivered a victory to Pfizer and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals when a district judge blocked a member of a nationwide fen-phen class action settlement from pursing product liability claims against the drugmakers in Pennsylvania state court.