Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP is pleased to announce that it has elected four new partners and four new counsel, effective Jan. 1, 2022.

Hughes Hubbard achieved complete victory on behalf of an East Hampton private school when a New York State judge dismissed a $10 million lawsuit brought against it by a billionaire NYC real estate developer and his 17-year-old son, who alleged the son was bullied by teachers during a field trip to South America in March 2020.

HHR scored a crucial victory for Syracuse Mountains Corporation after defeating a motion to dismiss a breach-of-contract lawsuit against Venezuelan state-owned oil and gas company Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA) brought by Syracuse over defaulted principal and interest payments on $376 million worth of bonds.

The firm obtained an appellate victory for American University of Antigua (AUA) and Manipal Education Americas (MEA) when the Second Circuit upheld a New York federal court ruling dismissing a disability discrimination suit brought by a medical student over her academic dismissal from AUA.

In an important victory for firm client American Arbitration Association (AAA), Hughes Hubbard helped secure denial of Uber’s motion for a preliminary injunction seeking to suspend AAA’s $10 million invoice to the ride-hailing giant for administrative costs associated with 7,771 arbitration cases.

Hughes Hubbard is acting as legal counsel to Santander Consumer USA Holdings Inc. in its pending sale to parent company and majority shareholder Santander Holdings USA Inc. that will take the Dallas-based auto lending and consumer finance company private.