Don Hong

Commercial Litigation

• HONX, Inc. — Counsel to HONX, Inc. (A wholly-owned subsidiary of Hess Corporation) in its Chapter 11 case filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas.
• Huntsman International LLC v. Albemarle — Trial counsel for Huntsman in litigation alleging fraud and breach of contract concerning the billion-dollar acquisition of a pigment manufacturing business.
• In re Effexor XR Antitrust Litigation — Counsel to Teva in a putative multidistrict class action litigation arising out of a patent litigation settlement concerning the antidepressant drug Effexor®.
• In re Paraquat Prods. Liability Litigation — Counsel for herbicide manufacturer in multi-district litigation alleging injuries resulting from alleged exposure to paraquat.
• In re Ranbaxy Generic Drug Application Antitrust Litigation — Counsel to Sun Pharma and its subsidiary, Ranbaxy, in a putative class action litigation alleging Ranbaxy obstructed competition by making fraudulent misrepresentations to the FDA in seeking approval for its generic versions of blockbuster drugs, Nexium®, Valcyte® and Diovan®.
• Navient Corporation — Counsel for Navient and its subsidiaries in multi-state attorney general litigation.
• NC v. Hain Celestial, et al. — Counsel to Walmart in products liability and personal injury actions alleging heavy metals in baby food, pending in federal and state courts around the country.
• Tronox Limited — Counsel for Tronox in United States District Court for the District of Columbia and antitrust proceedings brought by Federal Trade Commission related to Tronox’s worldwide acquisition of Cristal.
• Williams et al. v. BASF — Counsel for BASF in numerous asbestos cases across the country.

Other Notable Matters

• Huntsman Corporation in its successful defense of a proxy contest by Starboard Value.
• Counsel in five-year Monitorship of the California utility Pacific Gas & Electric stemming from its 2016 conviction of the 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion.
• Counsel to a leading investment and advisory firm in an SEC investigation involving allegations of improper valuation practices and undisclosed conflicts of interests.
• Counsel to leading hedge fund firm in an SEC investigation involving allegations of insider trading.
• Counsel to multinational company in FCPA and other government anti-corruption investigations.
• Counsel to publicly-traded company's board of directors in connection with FCPA-related internal investigations and government enforcement actions involving the U.S. Department of Justice and the SEC.
• Counsel to an individual in parallel insider trading investigations by the SEC and DOJ.

Counsel to American Samoa Government in filing cert petition at the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the enforceability of American Samoa treaties with the United States.

Counsel to death-row petitioner in state habeas corpus appeal.

Counsel to Virginia inmate petitioner in a Section 1983 excessive force action against a former corrections officer (4th Cir.).

Counsel to refugee from Western African country in obtaining asylum in the United States as a result of religious persecution.

Counsel in landlord-tenant housing conditions case in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.