Mr William Maguire > Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP Offices
ONE BATTERY PARK PLAZA
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10004-1482
NEW YORK
United States
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Mr William Maguire
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 attorney‘ Marc 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’.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
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