Mr William Maguire > Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
ONE BATTERY PARK PLAZA
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10004-1482
NEW YORK
United States

Work Department

Litigation, Securities Litigation and Professional Liability.

Position

Partner, New York since 1993. Concentrates on securities and commercial litigation and trial work.

Career

Bill has extensive experience trying complex business, products, and securities cases in state and federal courts, administrative proceedings and arbitrations, in New York, Delaware, Florida, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., and Ontario, Canada.

Major representations include the trial of claims arising from the sale of Lehman’s investment banking business, the trial of claims arising from the demise of Nortel Networks, Inc., and many securities cases, including a six-month jury trial.  Bill has also tried product liability cases for major consumer products manufacturers, including Lorillard Tobacco Company and Ford Motor Company, in the New York and Florida courts.

Education

Trinity College Dublin, Foundation Scholar, 1981, BA Leg. Sc., 1983 (first class honors); Hon. Soc. of Kings Inns, Dublin, Barrister-at-Law, 1985.

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense

Handling class actions, shareholder derivative litigation, investigations, criminal prosecutions, and administrative proceedings, clients praise Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP as ‘an excellent team with true subject matter expertise‘. The firm has particularly deep knowledge of the accounting sector. The practice is led from Washington DC by Kevin Abikoff and from New York by Shahzeb Lari and ‘superb trial attorneyMarc Weinstein. Abikoff and Lari are currently representing oilfield services company ProPetro Holding Corp. in a class action. New York-based William Maguire, chairs the professional liability practice, is frequently involved in high-profile auditor liability matters. Terence Healy, who works from both DC and New York, is ‘super savvy’.