PRACTICE AREAS

Chambers

• Hughes Hubbard received the 2011 Chambers USA Award for Excellence in International Arbitration -- that publication’s highest award -- for the second time. (The firm also received this award in 2008.) We have been short-listed for this award every year since its inception.
  
• Chambers has described Hughes Hubbard as “one of the heavyweights” and has noted our “impressive number of ‘top-flight lawyers handling top-flight cases.’” Chambers has also called the Firm “a definite leader in the field.”

Global Arbitration Review (GAR)

• GAR identified Hughes Hubbard as one of the world’s leading international arbitration law firms in the 3rd annual GAR 100 and shortlisted the firm this year for its “Arbitration Win of the Year” award.

Decideurs Juridiques

• We received the publication’s Silver Award for the best Arbitration Team.

Legal Alliance Summit & Awards (ILASA)

• We were selected as a Silver Award Winner for the International Legal Alliance Summit & Awards, and we were one of ten law firms shortlisted for the Best International Arbitration USA Law Firm Award ILASA 2011.

The American Lawyer

• We are included among 17 European and American firms designated by that publication as “The Arbitration Elite.” 

International Commercial Litigation

• A survey published in the journal International Commercial Litigation ranks Hughes Hubbard first among all U.S. firms in the number of arbitrations handled, and second among all firms worldwide in the number of industries covered by its arbitration practice.

Our arbitration and ADR specialists often become involved with our clients well before a dispute has arisen, working with our transactional lawyers to draft appropriate arbitration or mediation clauses for contracts.  Once a dispute arises, Hughes Hubbard lawyers act as advocates and as arbitrators in arbitration and other dispute resolution proceedings in the United States and throughout the world, and under the rules of most of the leading institutions, including the American Arbitration Association, the International Chamber of Commerce, the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution, the LCIA, the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, the Vienna Arbitral Centre and the Netherlands Arbitration Institute, as well as in non-administered arbitrations under the UNCITRAL and CPR Rules.  Our lawyers participate actively in the activities of many of those institutions.  For example:

The many subjects in which we have handled arbitrations include:

• Antitrust and European Competition Law
• Banking
• Baseball
• Construction and Engineering
• Employment and Executive Compensation
• Franchising
• Government Procurement Contracts
• Insurance and Reinsurance
• International Compensation Claims
• Joint Ventures
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Oil and Gas Concessions
• Partnership Dissolutions and Disputes
• Patent and Technology Licenses
• Pharmaceuticals
• Power and Energy
• Royalty Disputes
• Securities Claims
• Tax Liability Disputes
• Telecommunications
• Television and Radio Broadcast Rights
• Turnkey Projects