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Joe
Cyr
Partner, New York
joe.cyr@hoganlovells.com
Joe Cyr is a senior partner in our commercial litigation practice with broad experience in many areas, particularly complex international disputes. He has over 30 years of experience in all phases of litigation, including jury trials and appeals in U.S. state and federal courts. Joe has served as lead counsel in jury trials and in significant international arbitrations on behalf of some of the world's largest corporations and financial institutions.
Chambers USA ranks Joe as one of the leading commercial litigators in New York (2006-present). Joe formerly headed up Lovells' Litigation and Arbitration Practice in the United States.
Joe has devoted much of his practice to representing non-U.S. multinational corporations engaged in international transactions. His experience with issues arising in international disputes is quite extensive. Joe is frequently asked to appear on panels and make presentations on issues related to international litigation and arbitration, particularly on the extraterritorial application of U.S. laws and strategies for protecting the limited liability of non-U.S. multinational holding companies.
Joe's current practice is focused on representing multinational companies in significant product liability, human rights, and toxic tort litigation in class actions and in multi-jurisdictional disputes. Among other things, he is representing a major energy company in a significant regulatory investigation of the shale natural gas industry. Joe has substantial experience in lawsuits, arbitration proceedings, investigations, and compliance matters involving energy, telecommunications, banking, and the federal securities laws.
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
- Senior advisor to a leading multinational corporation regarding compliance with global policies relating to ethics and transparency.
- Senior advisor to a major energy company regarding regulatory and litigation risks arising out of U.S. shale natural gas operations.
- Lead national counsel for the largest Chinese drywall manufacturer and affiliated companies in one of the largest and most highly publicized product liability matters in the United States. Clients are manufacturers and sellers of drywall products that allegedly emit noxious fumes, corrode household wiring and plumbing, and cause adverse health effects. Thousands of homeowners and other individuals have brought claims for damage to their property and to their health.
- Obtained dismissal of all claims against Vodafone plc in the highly publicized product liability litigation against multiple wireless phone manufacturers and network providers wherein plaintiffs allege that they suffered brain cancer as a consequence of being exposed to radiation from their cellular phones.
- Obtained summary judgement for Talisman Energy, a major energy company, sued in a class action on behalf of 300,000 southern Sudanese under the Alien Tort Statute for aiding abetting human rights violations allegedly committed by the Government of Sudan in providing protection for an oil concession area in Southern Sudan. The landmark decision of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirming summary judgment set a high bar for such suits against multinational corporations.
- Obtained dismissal of all the claims against Alibaba.com Inc., a large Chinese-based internet company, in an action brought under the Alien Tort Statute by several Chinese dissidents who alleged that through its affiliate, Yahoo! China, Alibaba.com unlawfully provided user information about them to the Chinese government, knowing that the government would use that information to arrest and torture them.
- Represented a major commercial bank in the multi-defendant Alien Tort Statute litigation against companies that formerly operated in Apartheid-era South Africa.
- Lead trial counsel in obtaining high profile multimillion dollar jury verdict and punitive damages on behalf of AXA against AIG in New York Federal Court.
- Lead counsel for many corporate defendants in securities and other consumer class actions, including the largest consumer class action in United States history.*
- Represented Dartmouth College in a dispute challenging the largest bequest in its history.*
- Lead trial counsel for Enron in obtaining successful defense verdict before a jury in New York Federal Court.*
*Matter handled prior to joining our legal practice.
RECENT PRESENTATIONS
2010
Speaker, "Shale Natural Gas - Managing the Litigation Risks." Energy Dispute Resolution Conference, Calgary
2010
Sponsored consultation for United Nations to share the perspective of multinational corporations with the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises in support of his ongoing mandate to provide guiding principles to sovereign states and their multinationals regarding the corporate responsibility to respect human rights, New York.
2009
Presenter, "Multinational perspective on corporate responsibility and accountability." Annual International Law Weekend, New York
2009
Sponsor, Round Table Discussion for General Counsel on Corporate Social Responsibility, London
2009
Speaker, Energy Dispute Resolution Conference, Calgary
2004 - 2010
Numerous presentations on Toxic Tort, Human Rights, and Product Liability Litigation. Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States
2000 - 2010
Numerous presentations, "The liability of corporations for violations of international law and human rights." Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States
2000 - 2010
Numerous presentations, "The extraterritorial reach of U.S. courts and U.S. laws, including the Anti-terrorism Act, the Espionage Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the Alien Tort Statute and U.S. Securities Laws." Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States
Hogan Lovells Publications
April 2011
"Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights." Litigation Alert, Hogan Lovells
08 February 2011
"Second Circuit's rejection of corporate liability under the Alien Tort Statute stands." Energy Alert and Litigation Alert, Hogan Lovells
22 September 2010
"Hogan Lovells Litigation Alert: The Second Circuit rejects corporate liability under the Alien Tort Statute." Litigation Alert, Hogan Lovells
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