Hugh Burns has been advising clients on their most significant communications issues for over twenty years. He has extensive experience with financial transactions, shareholder activism and governance, crisis and reputational issues, litigation support, restructurings, earnings issues and executive changes. Hugh also has managed many long-term corporate positioning and investor relations programs.

Representative client engagements include:

• 23andMe on a take-private proposal from its founder;
• Dominion Voting Systems on its defamation case against Fox;
• First Republic’s Executive Chairman on issues relating to the bank’s FDIC’s receivership;
• Chesapeake Utilities on its acquisition of Florida City Gas;
• Haveli Investments on its acquisition of Certinia and other investments;
• Confidential support on DOJ and civil opioid litigation for multiple clients;
• Tinder co-founders in their lawsuit and $441 million settlement with Match Group; and
• Chapter 11 proceedings for Gulfport Energy, Chesapeake Energy, Payless ShoeSource and Bristow Group.

Before co-founding Reevemark, Hugh spent 17 years at Sard Verbinnen & Co., where he was a Partner, the firm’s General Counsel and a member of its Executive Management Committee. Hugh began his career as a litigator, practicing at both Sullivan & Cromwell and at Latham & Watkins.

Hugh was selected as one of Lawdragon’s Global 100 Leaders in Legal Strategy & Consulting from 2021-2024 and ranked by Chambers and Partners in 2022 and 2023 as a leader in the area of litigation support communications.

Hugh received an A.B. from Princeton University and a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law, where he graduated cum laude, Order of the Coif and edited the Fordham Law Review.