The firm represented United Airlines as the borrower of a $7.491 billion secured loan under the U.S. Department of Treasury’s airline loan program.

Hughes Hubbard & Reed is pleased to announce that partner Matthew Syrkin, global chair of the firm’s Media, Technology and Commercial Transactions Group, was again named by Variety to its Dealmakers Impact Report.

Hughes Hubbard is serving as legal counsel to U.S. private equity firm Platinum Equity in a strategic partnership with Nesco Holdings Inc. for the Fort Wayne, Ind.-based rental equipment provider’s pending acquisition of heavy equipment solutions provider Custom Truck One Source.

Hughes Hubbard is acting as legal advisor, along with Ellenoff Grossman & Schole, to CF Finance Acquisition Corp. II, a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by Cantor Fitzgerald, in a merger with View Inc. that will take the Silicon Valley-based smart window company public.

The firm secured an appellate victory for L-3 Communications and its then-subsidiary Vertex Aerospace when the Second Circuit affirmed summary judgment in their favor in an employment retaliation and race discrimination case.

HHR’s D.C. pro bono team secured a long-awaited victory for a sexual violence survivor seeking to help fellow adolescent victims in Bolivia by bringing a potentially precedent-setting case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.