Investigations & Sanctions Hughes Hubbard’s internationally recognized and award-winning global investigations team was once again ranked among the top 30 practices in the world in 2024. Our diverse team of highly qualified, international and multilingual lawyers have decades of experience, including as government enforcement officials in high stakes investigations and related compliance matters. In 2024, our team once again represented confidential clients in front of major regulating bodies across the world, including before the World Bank and other multilateral development bank investigations.
Firm Named to Global Investigations Review’s GIR 30 List for Second Year in a Row
The firm was named to Global Investigations Review’s (GIR) GIR 30 list, a ranking of the best law firms for complex multijurisdictional corporate investigations. The ranking measures firms’ institutional strengths based on a range of factors, including a firm’s reach, caseload and appearances before government authorities. “The firm made waves in the world of financial crime enforcement when it helped a business group push back against a US transparency law designed to help investigators unravel complex corporate structures,” the publication wrote.
GIR highlighted our work on a variety of matters, including a favorable ruling for the National Small Business Association in March when an Alabama federal judge ruled that the Corporate Transparency Act was unconstitutional. It also discussed the firm’s representation of telecommunications company Ericsson in an independent review of the adequacy of prior disclosures the company made before and after it entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the Department of Justice.
GIR also featured the firm’s continued representation of the Danish tax authority on a $2.1 billion fraud case in which some 300 pension funds in four countries allegedly made false tax refund claims between 2002 and 2015. “Hughes Hubbard helped the agency recover $250 million... and successfully had more than $1 million in counterclaims against its client dismissed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York,” the publication wrote.