Hughes Hubbard Named Finalist for New York Law Journal’s Law Firm of the Year Award

Hughes Hubbard has been recognized as a finalist for New York Law Journal’s Law Firm of the Year: Midsize Firms award, as part of the publication’s New York Legal Awards. The recognition reflects the firm’s strong performance across litigation and disputes, corporate and M&A, restructuring and finance as well as its pro bono work.

Over the past year, the firm secured major victories for Denmark’s tax authority, SKAT, including a nearly $500 million jury verdict, a $165 million bench trial judgment and settlements exceeding $450 million in multidistrict litigation seeking to recover $1.1 billion from an international tax fraud scheme. The firm has defended and continues to represent the Republic of Panama in over $27 billion of international arbitration claims involving the mining sector, the Republic of Colombia in over $20 billion in claims regarding the San José galleon, the “holy grail” of shipwrecks, and won a rare appellate victory for the Republic of Equatorial Guinea.

In addition, the firm advised Sompo, the Japanese insurance giant, in its successful defense of a $1.7 billion federal court action seeking return of one of Vincent van Gogh’s iconic Sunflowers paintings.

Hughes Hubbard’s corporate and M&A practices advised on significant cross-border deals, including Grab Holdings’ acquisition of Stash Financial, Allianz X’s investment in Cambridge Mobile Telematics and Flushing Financial Corp.’s merger with OceanFirst Financial Corp.

Hughes Hubbard also advised on a range of significant strategic and capital markets transactions. The firm represented Cantor Equity Partners II in its business combination with Securitize, the world's leading tokenization platform, and advised Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp. VI in its initial public offering targeting the automotive and other high-growth industries.

The firm also advised on major airline restructurings and billion-dollar finance transactions, including representing United Airlines in Azul Linhas Aéreas Brasileiras S.A.’s Chapter 11 reorganization, advising on the restructuring of GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes S.A., one of Brazil’s largest airlines and counseling Griffin Global Asset Management on its $1.245 billion aircraft ABS issuance.

Hughes Hubbard’s pro bono teams have worked with clients on immigration, civil rights, criminal defense and housing matters, including supporting the Peter Kreguer Clinic on a wide range of matters critical to helping their patients maintain housing and financial security.