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.

Read about HHR's most exciting recent litigation and arbitration victories in our Litigation Wrap for the fourth quarter of 2023 and the first quarter of 2024.

Hughes Hubbard is advising Knorr-Bremse AG, the global market leader for braking systems and a leading provider of other rail and commercial vehicle systems, in its approx. €630 million acquisition of the North American conventional rail signaling business of Alstom.

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.

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