Hughes Hubbard announced today that Jeremy Paner has joined as partner in the firm’s Sanctions, Export Controls & Anti‑Money Laundering practice and will be based in the Washington, DC, office. Paner, who spent most of his early career as a lead sanctions investigator and analyst for the Office of Global Targeting within the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), joins from an international Am Law 100 firm.

The firm was named to Global Investigations Review’s (GIR) GIR 30 list, a ranking of the best law firms for complex multijurisdictional corporate investigations. The ranking measures firms’ institutional strengths based on a range of factors, including a firm’s reach, caseload and appearances before government authorities.

Hughes Hubbard advised Sotheby’s on a definitive agreement with Abu Dhabi-based investment and holding company ADQ under which ADQ will acquire a minority interest in Sotheby’s.

HHR is representing Nuvo Group USA, Inc. and two of its affiliates, including public company Holdco Nuvo Group D.G Ltd. (collectively, Nuvo), in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.

As reported in The New York Times, the firm advised the Aso O. Tavitian Foundation on its gift to the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute of an extraordinary collection of 331 works of art. The gift also included more than $45 million to build a new wing for the collection, and to fund a new curator’s position.

Hughes Hubbard represented Griffin Global Asset Management on the closing of an offering of an aggregate principal amount of $400 million of senior unsecured notes priced at par by GGAM Finance, a subsidiary of Griffin Global Asset Management Holdings.