Hughes Hubbard & Reed is pleased to announce that its Executive Committee has unanimously elected partner Neil Oxford to serve as Chair and partner Robb Patryk to serve as Managing Partner, effective May 1, 2024. They succeed Ted Mayer, who has held both roles since 2017, and who is retiring from the partnership.

The firm represented the National Small Business Association in its constitutional challenge to the Corporate Transparency Act. In an important decision, the CTA was ruled unconstitutional, as it exceeds the powers granted to Congress by the U.S. Constitution.

Hughes Hubbard was named to Global Investigations Review’s GIR 30 list, a ranking of the best law firms for complex multijurisdictional corporate investigations.

HHR is advising New York art gallery owner Edward Tyler Nahem in a dispute over ownership of the multimillion-dollar Alexander Calder sculpture “Mobile de Bretagne,” which Nahem purchased in 2017 from French art dealer Elisabeth Royer-Grimblat.

The firm advised globally active alternative investment firm AURELIUS on the acquisition by its portfolio company, ZIM Aircraft Seating, of HAECO Cabin Solutions. The acquisition will make ZIM the fourth largest aircraft seat vendor in the world.

The firm recently won asylum for a family of eight who fled Afghanistan to escape death threats from members of ISIS and the Taliban.