Securities Litigation
High-stakes civil and criminal securities litigation defense informed by deep trial and investigative experience.
The area of securities litigation spans a wide range of matters, and all of them are critical and require strategic direction. Hughes Hubbard has a highly regarded team with experience representing public and private companies, registered securities broker-dealers, directors and officers, underwriters and other outside professionals, investors, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation in all types of securities, cryptocurrencies and commodities litigation.
For more than 40 years, our team has represented corporations and individuals in high-level and delicate internal investigations. This experience includes civil and criminal investigations into alleged accounting abuses of corporate expense accounts and gift and travel policies in a wide range of industries. To address ongoing changes in the law, we have added lawyers with substantial experience in criminal law gained through working in prominent prosecutorial offices.
Our Experience
Areas of experience
- Civil securities fraud class actions
- Shareholder derivative litigation
- Investigations
- Arbitrations
- Criminal prosecutions
- Inquiries and administrative proceedings by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, and stock exchanges and other self-regulatory organizations
- Foreign Corrupt Practices Act matters
Industry experience
- Accounting
- Banking
- Computers
- Commodities
- Energy
- Insurance
- Investment banking
- Manufacturing
- Mutual funds
- Pharmaceutical
- Securities
- Wholesale and retail
All Things Investigations Podcast
The All Things Investigations podcast discusses key legal issues in white-collar and other investigations in the U.S. and abroad.
Latest Updates
Hughes Hubbard Earns New Rankings in 2026 Benchmark Litigation Guide
Hughes Hubbard’s Dispute Resolution practice in New York earned a new ranking of Recommended in the 2026 edition of Benchmark Litigation, with eight lawyers also receiving national and regional recognition.
Benchmark Litigation Highlights Hughes Hubbard’s Success Representing SKAT in Fraud Litigation
Benchmark Litigation highlighted Hughes Hubbard’s successes and strategies in representing SKAT in its ongoing multi-district litigation to recover $1.1 billion from a tax fraud scheme.
Second Circuit Victory Earns Hughes Hubbard Team ‘Litigator of the Week’ Recognition
The American Lawyer named a Hughes Hubbard team a runner-up for Litigator of the Week following a major appellate victory on behalf of the Customs and Tax Administration of the Kingdom of Denmark, or Skatteforvaltningen (SKAT). In a unanimous opinion issued Aug. 31, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a judgment exceeding $476 million and rejected the defendants’ challenge to SKAT’s fraud claims.
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