Meaghan Gragg

Meaghan Gragg is a partner in Hughes Hubbard’s Litigation Department and International & Domestic Arbitration group. She has extensive experience in handling high-stakes, complex commercial disputes, with an emphasis in international arbitration and cross-border litigation.

Meaghan is also Co-Chair of the firm’s Art Law Group, and advises artists, art advisors, auction houses, collectors, estates, galleries, museums and non-profits in a variety of transactional matters and disputes.

In 2022, Meaghan was named to Crain’s New York Business’ “Notable Women in Law” list. In 2017, she was one of thirty attorneys named by the New York Law Journal as a “Rising Star.” She is also recommended by Legal 500 for Dispute Resolution: International Arbitration.

Before joining Hughes Hubbard, Meaghan clerked for the Honorable Ursula Ungaro, United States District Judge for the Southern District of Florida.

• 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 reclaim the painting (valued at $250 million) plus $1.5 billion in damages
• Representation of Chinese investment firm Shenzhen Zehuijin Investment Center (SZIC) in enforcing an arbitration award of approximately $30 million over a breached loan agreement
• Representation of Cantor Fitzgerald in a Singapore-seated commercial arbitration
• Representation of the Tokyo Electric Power Company in a Tokyo-seated arbitration in a dispute over the termination of a long-term uranium supply contract based on its force majeure clause
• Representation of Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. in a false advertising dispute under the Lanham Act
• Representation of the independent Board of Directors of a financial services company in conducting an internal investigation relating to a former executive’s claims against the company 
• Representation of the independent Board of Directors of a media company in conducting an internal investigation relating to an executive’s alleged use of fraudulent vendors to defraud the company
• Representation of Broadcast Music Inc. in a music licensing dispute
• Representation of Citibank, Société Générale, BBVA Compass Bank, and Portigon Financial Services in commercial disputes
• Representation of auction houses, art advisors, artists, estates, galleries, museums, non-profits and private collectors in commercial disputes and transactional matters, including non-disclosure agreements, consignment agreements, purchase and sales agreements, representation agreements, commission agreements, licensing agreements, loan agreements, catalogues raisonnés, copyright and fair use issues, cultural patrimony issues and other matters
• Representation of fiduciaries and beneficiaries in estates and trusts disputes in New York County Surrogate’s Court
• Representation of the Trustee in the $120 billion liquidation of Lehman Brothers Inc., the largest stockbroker ever to fail and part of the largest bankruptcy in history
• Representation of the Trustee in the liquidation of MF Global Inc., the largest futures commission merchant ever to fail and among the ten largest bankruptcies in history
• Representation of Imerys S.A., a French multibillion dollar mining company, in connection with the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of certain of its U.S. talc mining subsidiaries
• Representation of the Chapter 11 Debtors in the reorganization of Republic Airways Holdings Inc. in litigation of disputes over the Debtors’ comprehensive settlements with Delta Airlines, United Airlines and American Airlines
• Representation of the Chapter 11 Debtors in the reorganization of CST Industries Holdings Inc., the world’s largest and leading tank and dome manufacturer, in litigation of an equitable subordination and lender liability action
• Representation of the Republic of the Seychelles in an action brought in the Southern District of New York under the Alien Tort Claims Act