Securities Litigation
High-stakes civil and criminal securities litigation defense informed by deep trial and investigative experience.
The area of securities litigation spans a wide range of matters, and all of them are critical and require strategic direction. Hughes Hubbard & Reed has a highly regarded team with experience representing public and private companies, registered securities broker-dealers, directors and officers, underwriters and other outside professionals, investors, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation in all types of securities, cryptocurrencies and commodities litigation.
For more than 40 years, our team has represented corporations and individuals in high-level and delicate internal investigations. This experience includes civil and criminal investigations into alleged accounting abuses of corporate expense accounts and gift and travel policies in a wide range of industries. To address ongoing changes in the law, we have added lawyers with substantial experience in criminal law gained through working in prominent prosecutorial offices.
Our Experience
Areas of experience
- Civil securities fraud class actions
- Shareholder derivative litigation
- Investigations
- Arbitrations
- Criminal prosecutions
- Inquiries and administrative proceedings by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, and stock exchanges and other self-regulatory organizations
- Foreign Corrupt Practices Act matters
Industry experience
- Accounting
- Banking
- Computers
- Commodities
- Energy
- Insurance
- Investment banking
- Manufacturing
- Mutual funds
- Pharmaceutical
- Securities
- Wholesale and retail
All Things Investigations Podcast
The All Things Investigations podcast discusses key legal issues in white-collar and other investigations in the U.S. and abroad.
Latest Updates
First Circuit Affirms Dismissal in Biopharmaceutical Investor Litigation
Hughes Hubbard successfully represented Samuel and Nadine Wohlstadter in an appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, which affirmed the dismissal of a securities fraud action ordered by Judge Richard C. Stearns of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Hughes Hubbard’s legal team also represented the Wohlstadters in the District of Massachusetts proceedings.
Hughes Hubbard Secures Complete Dismissal for Maxeon Solar Technologies
Hughes Hubbard successfully represented Maxeon Solar Technologies and two of its former senior executives, achieving a complete dismissal in a putative securities class action filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.Fara Tabatabai Recognized as Legal Leader by Profiles in Leadership Journal
Fara Tabatabai has been recognized as a 2025 “Legal Leadership” award winner by Profiles in Leadership Journal
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