Firm Named to Global Investigations Review’s GIR 30 List for Second Year in a Row

Nov. 15, 2024 – 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. “The firm made waves in the world of financial crime enforcement when it helped a business group push back against a US transparency law designed to help investigators unravel complex corporate structures,” the publication wrote.

GIR highlighted our work on a variety of matters, including winning a favorable ruling for the National Small Business Association in March when an Alabama federal judge ruled that the Corporate Transparency Act was unconstitutional. It also discussed the firm’s representation of telecommunications company Ericsson in an independent review of the adequacy of prior disclosures the company made before and after it entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the Department of Justice.

GIR also featured the firm’s continued representation of the Danish tax authority on a $2.1 billion fraud case in which some 300 pension funds in four countries allegedly made false tax refund claims between 2002 and 2015. “Hughes Hubbard helped the agency recover $250 million in 2019, and successfully had more than $1 million in counterclaims against its client dismissed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York,” the publication wrote.

The publication highlighted the firm’s global investigations, enforcement and compliance group practice, chaired by Michael DeBernardis in Washington, D.C. and Anne Gaustad and Marie-Agnès Nicolas in Paris.

GIR also mentioned Mike Huneke and Sean Reilly, who co-lead the firm’s sanctions and anti-money laundering practice; Marc Weinstein, Dan Weiner, Derek Adler and Charlie Cohen for their work in the litigation space; Nicolas Tollet for his internal investigations and compliance work; and Yi-Chin Ho for her work on litigation and international arbitration for disputes involving China and entities in other nations.

This is the second year in a row that Hughes Hubbard has been included in GIR 30, having been included in the publication’s GIR 100 list in the past.