International law firm Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP announced today it has expanded its International Arbitration practice and named Sébastien Bonnard to lead the Europe, Africa and the Middle East practice, Christine Kang to lead the China practice, and Remy Gerbay to lead the investor-state dispute practice.

​A former senior executive of Crédit Agricole’s Dubai branch, imprisoned in Dubai for the last two years without being charged, has retained the firm to represent him in defending a civil action recently filed in New York State Supreme Court alleging his theft of over $50 million from two Dubai entities.

In yet another recent victory for Imperial Pacific International, a federal judge granted its bid to throw out, for a second time, a suit brought by Turkish workers of the hotel-casino.

HHR assisted CI&T, a Brazil-based information technology and software development company, in its acquisition of NTERSOL, a software engineering and development company geared toward financial services.

Hughes Hubbard advised CF Acquisition Corp. VIII, a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by Cantor Fitzgerald, in its merger with XBP Europe, Inc., the European business of Exela Technologies Inc.

HHR client Brisa De Angulo Losada obtained a sweeping victory before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the culmination of over a decade of HHR and a broad legal team’s work before multiple legal bodies to hold Bolivia accountable for its actions.