Carl W. Mills

Carl Mills is counsel in Hughes Hubbard’s New York litigation group.  His practice focuses on complex business litigation.  He has represented U.S. and international clients in a variety of industries, including accounting, aerospace, banking, financial services, pharmaceutical, technology, and telecommunications.  He has extensive experience representing Big Four accounting firms and their partners and employees in SEC, PCAOB, and civil litigation proceedings, as well as advising the firms with respect to regulatory and governance matters.  He also has extensive employment litigation experience, including in large scale unfair competition cases. Mr. Mills also regularly represents clients in corporate reorganization and bankruptcy-related litigation and appeals.

Currently, Mr. Mills represents a major financial services company in a complex cross-border unfair competition case, and a litigation funder in several related litigations.

Recently, Mr. Mills represented an international investment bank in a major employment matter involving unfair competition and breach of fiduciary duty claims, a Big Four auditing firm in connection with a major SEC investigation.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Mills represented the Trustee of the Lehman Brothers Inc. estate in a multi-billion dollar breach of contract litigation, that same Trustee in a major dispute concerning a deferred compensation plan, and the European entities of the former Nortel Networks enterprise in the first US-Canadian cross-border trial in history.

Mr. Mills is also committed to providing quality pro bono legal services.  He has represented clients in civil rights, divorce, landlord-tenant, immigration and naturalization, trusts and estates, and adoption matters, and provides mentorship to high school and college students interested in pursuing legal careers.