North America - United States • Dispute resolution
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP provides ‘very practical and strategic’ advice to clients from a wide range of industry sectors, including energy, where the firm has strong and longstanding roots. Asbestos-related contamination work remains a strength, with numerous lawyers spread across the national network adept at defending clients in direct occupational exposure cases, bystander claims and para-occupational, or “take-home” cases. Appreciated for her ability to ’explain very complex scientific information in an understandable way’, Richmond-based litigator Alexandra Cunningham is very experienced at handling asbestos matters, as well as cases involving alleged chemical contamination. She also handles PFAS matters and is part of a firmwide interdisciplinary group that knits together regulatory, litigation and technical expertise to good effect for clients seeking to navigate the rapidly evolving regulatory landscape and to effectively respond to litigation and enforcement actions and advise on PFAS regulatory compliance and clean-up. Georgia Lucier and Tom Waskom co-head the overarching product liability and mass tort litigation group with Cunningham from Houston and Richmond, respectively.
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Testimonials
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- 'The lawyers in the team are very practical and strategic in their thinking.'
- 'Ali Cunningham is as experienced an asbestos lawyer as I've ever met. She is reasonable in her advice and she can explain very complex scientific information in an understandable way.'
Key clients
- Alfa Laval Inc.
- Smithfield Foods, Inc.
- Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII)
- Balfour Beatty and related companies, including AMC West
- Atotech USA, LLC
- Culpeper Wood Preservers
- Axalta Coatings Systems, LLC
Work highlights
- Representing Alfa Laval in two related proceedings in New York state court arising out of an alleged petroleum contamination at property owned by the DeLaval Separator Company until 1965.
- Successfully represented Alfa Laval Packinox (ALP), a French subsidiary of Alfa Laval AB, in an International Chamber of Commerce arbitration brought by Drivetrain LLC, the litigation trustee, for the now-bankrupt U.S. subsidiaries of Abengoa, a now-defunct Spanish infrastructure and energy company.
- Represent government contractor Huntington Ingalls as national strategic and trial counsel for its asbestos cases arising out of the Newport News Shipyard.