Stephen Hibbard > Proskauer Rose LLP > Los Angeles, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Stephen Hibbard

Work Department
Litigation
Position
Stephen Hibbard is a partner in Proskauer’s Litigation Department and a member of the Securities Litigation, Asset Management Litigation, and White Collar & Investigations groups. Stephen is the chair of Proskauer’s Securities Litigation Group.
A highly regarded complex commercial and securities litigator with more than 30 years of experience, Steve represents financial institutions, companies, and individuals in commercial litigation, securities class actions, merger & acquisition litigation, derivative actions, and corporate governance disputes. He routinely represents clients in regulatory or internal investigations, and regularly advises public companies on fiduciary duty and disclosure issues.
Steve has led the defense of dozens of headline-making and high-profile matters from cryptocurrency to cyber-security, from fintech to greentech, and from the housing mortgage crisis to the age of digital assets and AI. Buyers, sellers, and financial advisors have relied on him in merger litigation, including in dozens of technology company mergers.
Steve has also handled complex litigation matters involving corporate finance, accounting, antitrust, defamation, copyright, tax, employment, RICO, and unfair business practices claims for businesses in a wide range of industries including investment banking, commercial banking, venture capital, private equity, asset management, biotech, pharmaceuticals, hardware, semiconductors, software, and sports leagues and teams.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
Led on the enforcement front by ‘outstanding’ New York-based partner Joshua Newville and for private litigation by Timothy Mungovan in Boston, Proskauer Rose LLP is well-equipped to represent clients across a myriad securities fraud cases, including class actions and civil and criminal governmental probes. Newville, who is particularly skilled at representing private fund clients in SEC enforcement investigations and other regulatory matters, is one of several ex-regulatory officials within the team, another being Washington DC-based Robert Pommer, who is noted for his ‘thorough yet practical advice’. In Los Angeles, Stephen Hibbard has ‘excellent judgment and deep substantive legal knowledge’, which he deploys to good effect for companies, financial institutions and individuals in the defense of securities class actions and derivative shareholder litigation. Kevin Abikoff, who joined the Washington DC office from Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP in June 2024, strengthens the team’s offering in light of his wide-ranging securities, white-collar criminal litigation and enforcement skills.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Industry focus > Sport
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)