Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP

Paul Manuele has joined Hughes Hubbard as our new Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer. Welcome, Paul! https://lnkd.in/dEq6Sa2Y #businessdevelopment #marketing #law

The U.S. Department of the Treasury, as lead agency for the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), hosted the 2024 annual CFIUS Conference on Nov. 19, which highlighted recent rule changes that enhance the Committee’s tools for monitoring and enforcement. ? Sean Reilly explores four key takeaways from the 2024 Annual CFIUS Conference, including the obligations of fund managers to understand and disclose the identities and roles of limited partners, the methodologies used to assess national security risks associated with real estate transactions, and the benefits of prompt and open communication with the Committee. ? Read the alert: https://lnkd.in/e5hH2GYX

The firm represented Ualá, the Latin American neobank founded in Argentina, in its $300 million Series E preferred stock fundraising round at a post-money valuation of $2.75 billion. ? Gerold Niggemann and Javad Husain led the Hughes Hubbard team, which included Patrick Hell, Jason Lee and Justin S. Cohen. ? Learn more: https://lnkd.in/e83sQnWs

Hughes Hubbard was named to Global Investigations Review’s GIR 30 list – the ranking of the best law firms for complex multijurisdictional corporate investigations. ? The firm is honored to be included for the second year in a row and appreciates our clients’ continued trust with their most important matters. ? Learn more: https://lnkd.in/ev5zXK8F

On Dec. 12, Remy Gerbay will speak at a conference organized by University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Arbitration Association and the Luxembourg Chapter of the Club Espa?ol e Iberoamericano del Arbitraje on sanctions and international investment agreements. Speakers will discuss issues that can arise in the jurisdiction, merits and setting aside/enforcement phases of investment disputes triggered by sanctions. These can include denial of benefits clauses, the role of the police powers doctrine, essential security interests provisions and the law countermeasures as defenses against sanctions, calculation of damages, the arbitrability of claims connected to sanctions and the attachment of assets against sanctioned States. Remy was invited to the event by fellow panelist and research scientist with the University of Luxembourg Dr. Javier García Olmedo. Learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/ejArpZ5v

Hughes Hubbard’s anti-corruption “Month in a Minute” offers a look-back at the biggest foreign corruption-related developments from the prior month. Written by Laura Perkins, Michael DeBernardis, Samuel Salyer and Katherine Taylor, Month in a Minute is intended to provide a quick snapshot of the latest news and developments. We hope you find it a useful and perhaps even enjoyable resource. Highlights from October 2024 include an SEC fine for a New York-based defense contractor, another sentencing in the PDVSA bribery scheme, resolutions for RTX and the sentencing of an individual involved in the Petrobras scheme. Read the alert: https://lnkd.in/evx4Kcbm

On Nov. 20, Gaela Gehring Flores will participate as a speaker at a panel on arbitration trends in Latin America as part of New York Arbitration Week. ? The panel will focus on current and future trends taking place in arbitrations across Latin America. Speakers will discuss issues that have arisen in multiple cases and diverse jurisdictions, providing insight on both head and tailwinds faced by claimants and respondents including the continued impact of social unrest, macroeconomic stressors, and technological development on both investor-state and commercial disputes. ? Learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/eabArvBm

HHR partner and co-chair of LatAm Disputes Diego Durán de la Vega will be a speaker in the upcoming 40 Under 40 International Arbitration (2024) book presentation and networking session that will take place on November 13th in NY at the International Centre for Dispute Resolution? (ICDR). ? The book, which compiles cutting-edge articles of 40 top arbitration practitioners under 40 years of age worldwide, was coordinated and edited by renowned international arbitration practitioner Carlos González-Bueno. ? Diego was one of the authors of the 2024 edition of the book. His article was titled “Space: the final (arbitration) frontier?” and can be downloaded here:?https://lnkd.in/ewZpeZB9 ? Other speakers include Carlos González-Bueno, partner at González - Bueno SLP; Sérgio Germano Nascimento, partner at Bermudes Advogados; and Rafael Carlos del Rosal Carmona, director at ICDR.?Katie Gonzalez, associate at Cleary Gottlieb, will moderate the event. ? AlixPartners?will sponsor the event alongside with Hughes Hubbard, the International Centre for Dispute Resolution? (ICDR), BERMúDEZ ADVOGADOS, and González - Bueno SLP.? Date: Nov. 13, 2024 Time: 5:00 p.m. EST Place:?AAA-ICDR New York Office, 150 East 42nd Street, Floor 17, New York, NY 10017 ? Please RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/ewHTPq4s? ? The full version of the book is available on Kluwer Arbitration?https://lnkd.in/dFd6A-w6?and Amazon?https://lnkd.in/dDJt8CGY

On Nov. 22, Gaela Gehring Flores will speak on a panel at the 19th annual Fordham Conference on International Arbitration and Mediation. Her panel will discuss how to effectively navigate AI-generated deep fakes and black box systems while gathering evidence for international arbitration. Register here:?https://lnkd.in/et8nW8kE

Hughes Hubbard’s Paris office was ranked among the best lawyers in multiple categories in 2024 according to the Décideurs Magazine – Leaders League ranking. ? Once again, our Paris Global Investigations, Enforcement and Compliance practice was ranked as “Incontournable,” or “Leading,” for both international and internal investigations, as well as compliance programs. Our Paris Arbitration team was awarded a double distinction: “Excellent” in Litigation & Arbitration, in the International Arbitration category, and “Strong Notoriety” in the Africa Desk ranking, in the International Arbitration and Litigation category. Our Africa practice was also ranked “Excellent” for project finance and natural resources and renewable energies. ? Congratulations to partners Sena Agbayissah, Sébastien Bonnard, Anne H. Gaustad, Michael Huneke, Marie-Agnès Nicolas and Nicolas Tollet who were each named individually by the publication and to all teams involved.