Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Managing Partner: Samuel A. Danon
Chairman, Executive Committee: Randall S. Parks
Number of partners worldwide: 322
Number of other lawyers worldwide: 528

Firm Overview:
For 125 years, Hunton Andrews Kurth has served clients across the globe with a collaborative and purposeful approach. With offices strategically located in the United States and around the world, the firm is known for its strength in the energy, financial services, real estate, technology, and retail and consumer products industries, as well as its considerable depth across numerous practice areas. Hunton fosters a strong culture built upon an unwavering commitment to its clients, colleagues, and communities. To learn more, please visit hunton.com.

Main Areas of Practice

Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Creditors’ Rights:
Hunton regularly handles major bankruptcy and creditors’ rights representations for a range of clients investing in, or facing, distressed situations. The firm has extensive experience in both debtor and creditor-side representations in complex restructurings, corporate reorganizations and distressed M&A transactions. The team’s work reaches across all industries, including energy, retail, food & beverage, financial institutions, media and technology. Hunton’s bankruptcy group covers matters pending in courts across the US, including the busy Chapter 11 forums of the Southern District of New York, Delaware, the Southern District of Texas, and the Eastern District of Virginia.

Corporate:
Hunton offers clients comprehensive legal services across the vast corporate spectrum. With a strong focus on understanding each client’s strategic business objectives, the firm advises virtually every form of corporate entity, from startups and privately held companies to publicly traded, multinational corporations; REITs; private equity entities; and financial institutions. The firm’s representation includes issuers, underwriters, and investors in capital markets transactions; financial advisors, special committees, and investors in complex M&A transactions; clients facing regulatory and corporate governance matters; and clients on commercial and technology transactions. In conjunction, the tax team provides efficient solutions and proactive approaches in all transactions. Clients come from the myriad industries of today’s global economy, including financial services, energy and energy transformation, mining, real estate, retail and consumer products, technology, manufacturing, and healthcare.

Cybersecurity & Privacy:
With lawyers located in the US, Europe, and Asia, Hunton’s renowned global practice focuses on all aspects of cybersecurity, data protection and privacy, including developing and implementing privacy and information security programs; preventing and managing cyber events; responding to information data breaches; and advising on legal compliance with all international, EU, and US state and federal laws. The firm has assisted clients with more than 5,000 data breaches and cyber incidents worldwide, handling every aspect of the cyber event. Hunton’s lawyers also advise on the use and governance of cutting-edge technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, biometrics and facial recognition, cloud computing, and geolocation data. In addition, the firm considers global policy issues through its Centre for Information Policy Leadership, a think tank that provides strategic leadership and consulting on all aspects of global information policy, privacy, and security.

Energy & Infrastructure:
Hunton’s energy and infrastructure practice advises sponsors, lenders, investors, independent power producers, government agencies, and other project participants on the development, acquisition, and financing of capital-intensive energy projects (including a substantial portion of the wind and solar projects that are financed in the United States). Hunton has a deep bench of attorneys with decades of experience representing clients on transportation, water and sewer, telecommunications, mining, nuclear, and other infrastructure projects across the US, Asia, Europe, Africa, and Latin America.

In addition, the firm regularly advises on the formation of wholesale market energy systems, capital markets, and commercial and structured financings and public-private partnerships. The firm’s lawyers represent clients through an effective, multidisciplinary approach that offers a broad range of experience in financing, tax, environmental and land use, FERC and energy regulation, project development, and real estate, allowing the firm to provide seamless representation across the life of project.

Environmental:
Hunton is on the front lines of emerging environmental and climate change issues in the US Supreme Court and other federal and state courts; with federal and state regulatory agencies; and before the US Congress. The firm advises clients over the entire lifecycle of environmental and climate change issues, from initial legislative and policy developments, through implementation, compliance, project development, responses to enforcement actions and court challenges. Hunton provides counsel on the full range of traditional environmental matters, including air, water, natural resources, waste management, and site cleanup, as well as new areas of regulatory focus such as climate change mitigation, PFAS and other emerging chemicals of concern, environmental justice, energy transition, and sustainability and environmental, social, and corporate governance. In the context of climate change, the firm is a global leader advising clients on carbon markets and trading, climate disclosures, electrification of the transportation sector, and energy transition project development, including, for example, wind and solar, nuclear, carbon capture and sequestration, direct air capture, hydrogen, and associated infrastructure.

Labor & Employment:
Hunton’s labor and employment team understands the challenges facing employers today and represents clients in virtually every form of traditional and emerging labor and employment issue. The firm has represented national and multinational corporations in countless class and collective actions, pattern and practice actions, government enforcement actions, individual and multi-plaintiff claims, and state agency proceedings. The team’s lawyers include numerous courtroom veterans and are among the few lawyers who have tried class and collective actions to jury verdict using representative proof. Its traditional labor lawyers are known for their expertise in complex union and labor matters before the National Labor Relations Board and the courts, representing clients nationwide in high-stakes union proceedings. The team also has a robust counseling practice that routinely advises clients on day-to-day compliance matters and partners with colleagues in firm transactional practices on mergers and acquisitions, asset sales, spin offs, and other corporate transactions. Our team represents employers in all aspects of labor and employment matters, including trade secrets, non-competes, internal investigations, allegations of discrimination, harassment, breach of contract, wrongful termination, and retaliation, background checks, drug testing, and other federal and state law claims.

Litigation:
Hunton’s litigators focus on strategy over tactics, developing comprehensive plans that are aligned with each client’s business and legal objectives. Since its founding in 1901, Hunton has been a business-focused firm, an approach it brings to today’s litigation climate. The firm’s team of nearly 400 litigators draws on decades of experience to handle all aspects of disputes, with a goal of achieving successful results whether in the courtroom or boardroom, helping clients identify and manage potential risks, respond to existing or threatened litigation, and pursue resolution in every available venue. Clients seek Hunton out for its proven litigation track record, particularly in the disciplines of antitrust and competition, class actions, energy, environmental, financial services, insurance, intellectual property, international arbitration, labor and employment, privacy, product liability, retail and consumer products, and securities. In addition, the firm’s accomplished issues and appeals team represents clients in state and federal appellate courts nationwide, including the US Supreme Court.