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Mr James Giddens
Work Department
Corporate Reorganization and Bankruptcy
Position
Retired Partner in the New York Office
Career
James W. Giddens previously served as chair of Hughes Hubbard & Reed’s Corporate Reorganization and Bankruptcy group. He is generally recognized as the country’s leading expert on brokerage firm liquidations, having been selected by the Securities Investor Protection Corp. (SIPC) to be trustee on several of the largest and most complex liquidations in history. In addition to brokerage liquidations, Jim represents financial institutions and companies in major corporate reorganization and insolvency matters.
Trustee for the liquidation of MF Global, Inc. Trustee for the liquidation of Lehman Brothers, Inc. Created the Corporate Reorganization Group of Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP. Served as Trustee for various SIPC broker-dealer liquidations. Served as SEC Restitution Fund Administrator for A.R. Baron & Co., Inc. Emphasis on acquisitions and sales of financially distressed entities and representation of major creditor constituencies. Various articles and lecturer on insolvency matters. Yale Law School Chirelstein Colloquium on Corporate Law (2014). Sullivan & Cromwell Conference on Global Financial Issues – Yale Law School – (2013).
Languages
Spanish; French.
Memberships
American Bankruptcy Institute, American Bar Association, Association of the Bar of City of New York, International Bar Association and INSOL.
Education
Yale Law School, LL.B., 1966 Dartmouth College, A.B., 1959.
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Firm Rankings
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional