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
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP ‘has excellent legal skills and deep knowledge in multi-jurisdictional matters, combining a direct approach in communication with both the court, counterparties and the client with the ability to come up with solutions to complex problems that do not increase the level of conflict’. Kevin Abikoff in Washington DC and, in New York, Shahzeb Lari and Marc Weinstein lead the 18-partner securities litigation group. Weinstein and New York-based Daniel Weiner are defending Stuart Fraser, Vice Chairman of Cantor Fitzgerald, in aiding-and-abetting liability claims as part of a securities fraud class action civil suit accusing two cryptocurrency mining companies. Weinstein and key partner William Maguire, who is acting for Deloitte and Touche LLP in a class action alleging it fraudulently misstated its financial statements, are ‘experienced litigators who are able to come up with alternatives on strategy and negotiations’.
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
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense