The firm has named Steve Chung as Deputy Co-Chair of the firm and expanded its Global Investigations, Enforcement and Compliance practice, naming Laura Perkins and Mike DeBernardis as Co-Chairs of the firm’s group based in the United States and Anne Hukkelaas Gaustad and Marie-Agnès Nicolas as Co-Chairs in Europe.

Hughes Hubbard was named to Global Investigations Review’s GIR 30 list, a ranking of the best law firms for complex multijurisdictional corporate investigations.

HHR advised Sompo Holdings, the owner of one of Vincent van Gogh’s iconic Sunflowers paintings, and its affiliates in winning dismissal of an action to recover the painting (valued at $250 million) plus $1.7 billion in damages.

HHR advised Bloomsbury Publishing in its carve-out acquisition of the academic imprints and associated titles of Rowman & Littlefield, the leading independent book publisher in the U.S. academic market, for $83 million. It is Bloomsbury's largest acquisition to date.

The firm represented the National Small Business Association in its constitutional challenge to the Corporate Transparency Act. In an important decision, the CTA was ruled unconstitutional, as it exceeds the powers granted to Congress by the U.S. Constitution.

HHR—in partnership with the DC Volunteer Lawyers Project (DCVLP)—recently won asylum in a Maryland immigration court for a Cameroonian refugee who fled her home country in 2019 after she was falsely accused of being a separatist and imprisoned.