Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP

On Nov. 18, Christine KANG will speak on two panels as a part of the New York International Arbitration Center's New York Arbitration Week. The first, “Geopolitical Wars, Financial Upheavals and International Arbitration,” will take place from 4:30 p.m. EST and will examine the impacts of emerging political and financial risks on international deal-making and dispute resolution, and how best to navigate these heightened risks. The second panel, “Institutional Reports and Perspectives from Asia,” will begin at 5:30 p.m. EST and will share perspectives on the international arbitration landscape and trends for Asia with a focus on its institutional reports.   Learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/e9Y_h5sR

Hughes Hubbard partner Richard J. Miller, Jr. is featured in a new advertising campaign from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital’s transplant center. Richard received a life-saving liver transplant from the hospital in 2021, after being diagnosed with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease during the pandemic.   Watch the ad: https://lnkd.in/dp-rDf4Y

The firm advised a bank group led by Rabobank in their $132 million sustainability-linked export prepayment facility for sugar company Tereos Açúcar e Energia Brasil S.A, the Brazilian subsidiary of global agricultural cooperative conglomerate Tereos. Emilio Saiz led the Hughes Hubbard team, which included Justin S. Cohen, Santiago Diaz-Seijido and paralegal Kirsten Golan. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eVtNCg-u

Hughes Hubbard advised Sotheby’s in closing a minority investment round with ADQ, an Abu Dhabi-based investment and holding company. The total amount of investments by ADQ and Patrick Drahi, who acquired Sotheby’s in 2019 and remains Sotheby’s majority owner, is approximately $1 billion. Partners Michael Traube and Javad Husain, counsel Alexander Rahn and associate Drew Bader led the HHR team with primary assistance from partners Andrew Braiterman, Ken Lefkowitz and Charlie Wachsstock; counsel Justin S. Cohen, Kristin Millay and Sabrina Silverberg; and associate Tom Koziel. Other team members included partners Philip Giordano, Michael Huneke, Shahzeb Lari, Chuck Samuelson, John M. Townsend and Daniel H. Weiner; counsel Dev Ghose, Anna Hamati and Sean Reilly; associates Daniel Chan and Taylor Skaggs; and paralegal Emily Chan. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eCMJDesP

How to interpret—and how to comply with—Treasury's Oct. 28 final outbound investment rule?   Co-authors Michael Huneke, Sean Reilly and Justin Campbell discuss key takeaways about the new program for U.S. persons whose investments might advance the development of key technologies and products by countries of concern.   Read the alert: https://lnkd.in/ev9svUrY

On Oct. 30, Hughes Hubbard participated in Colombia Arbitration Week. HHR Partner and Co-Chair of LatAm Disputes Diego Durán de la Vega was a speaker in a panel entitled “The Post-Award Reality: Recognition and Enforcement Proceedings.” Diego spoke about the constitutional judicial reform that was recently enacted in Mexico that will replace all judges in the country with popularly elected ones, and its impact on both commercial and investment arbitration—including the enforcement of arbitral awards.    Learn more about the conference: https://lnkd.in/eSavz5ba

On Nov. 7, Hughes Hubbard’s New York office will host New York Intellectual Property Law Association (NYIPLA)’s One-Day Patent CLE Seminar. Patrice P. Jean, Ph.D., President of the NYIPLA and partner at Hughes Hubbard, will present the opening remarks.   The program will feature panel discussions on intellectual property (IP) guidelines, IP and antitrust law with regard to the Federal Trade Commission, current trending IP cases and appeals and pending and proposed IP legislation. Attendees will be eligible for up to eight NY/NJ CLE credits, including one cybersecurity credit and 0.5 ethics credits.   Learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/g8XU6PNk

On 16 October 2024, the EU Commission published new guidelines on the scope of catch‑all controls and due diligence requirements for exporters of non-listed cyber-surveillance items that could in whole or part be used in connection with internal repression, and/or the commission of serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law. Read our latest client alert on the new guidelines authored by our EU Economic Sanctions & Export Controls Team: https://lnkd.in/eHDizThd This alert was written by lead authors Anne H. Gaustad and Marie-Agnès Nicolas with assistance from Anita Maklakova, Aurore Maroteau, Lorenza Nava, Ilaria Bellini and Timothé Radosavljevic

Recent Delaware court decisions highlight important drafting decisions for earnouts in acquisition agreements. Parties negotiating efforts clauses in earnout provisions should define “efforts” in choosing from a sliding scale of behavioral standards. In a new alert, co-authors Alexander Rahn, Chuck Samuelson and Wayne Yu discuss three recent Delaware decisions that are good examples of this. Read the alert: https://lnkd.in/etgd5ZKf

Law360 reported on Malik Havalic's argument before the U.S. Court of Appeals, who appeared willing to consider nixing the enforcement of an $8 million arbitral award against Equatorial Guinea issued in a dispute over a hospital operating contract. On behalf of Equatorial Guinea, Malik told the panel a lower court wrongly dismissed its contention of an underlying clause that required Marseille-Kliniken AG to take the dispute to an Equatoguinean court before initiating arbitration, because it misapprehended that the clause was not a mere procedural precondition to arbitration, but related to the substantive arbitrability of the dispute. The Hughes Hubbard team also includes Remy Gerbay, Michael DeBernardis, Shayda Vance and Carter Rosekrans. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/e-aETYaS