About this speaker
Hillary Hughes is a business, technology, sports & entertainment, food & beverage and CPG attorney. She represents sports & entertainment talent, entrepreneurs, start-up businesses and established brands as well as angel, venture capital and private equity investors. Hillary serves as the Chair of the firm’s Sports, Arts & Entertainment Group and co-leads its Food & Beverage Practice. She counsels clients on a full range of matters, from day-to-day operational concerns to sophisticated transactions. Like the innovative entrepreneurs, talent and brands Hillary advises, she strives to bring creative yet practical strategies to legal services, assisting clients with brand and asset protection, risk management and dispute resolution. The matters on which Hillary counsels are often cross-border in nature.
The clients of her business practice include entrepreneurs, start-up businesses and established brands as well as angel, venture capital and private equity investors. Hillary has a broad transactional background, advising her business clients with a variety of matters, including corporate structure, capital raising and financing, commercial matters, intellectual property matters, mergers and acquisitions and other exit transactions.
Hillary’s food & beverage and CPG practice focuses on clients in the natural, organic, plant-based, vegan and food tech as well as other CPG businesses and better-for-you space as well as investors in and vendors to these brands. She counsels these clients on operational concerns and sophisticated transactions including raising capital, intellectual property protection, manufacturing, co-packing, broker, distribution, supply and other services arrangements as well as on other commercial matters and exit transactions. With the increasing trend of brands and celebrities to partner, Hillary often finds her food & beverage and sports & entertainment practices intersecting and assists brands or their celebrity partners on investment and/or endorsement transactions. The Food & Beverage Practice produces a weekly publication focusing on the healthy food movement called the Emerging Food & Beverage Update.