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Mr. Hughes is Senior Counsel to the Firm. He began his career in the Los Angeles office of Morrison & Foerster where he practiced law for six years in the firm's business department. At Morrison, Mr. Hughes represented clients in a variety of transactions including leveraged buyouts, secured and unsecured lending (representing both lenders and borrowers) and general corporate law. Mr. Hughes then spent the next 17 years as in-house counsel, most recently as Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Indymac Bancorp, Inc., currently one of the ten largest residential mortgage lenders in the United States and, with over $25 billion in assets, one of the largest financial institutions headquartered in Southern California. His responsibilities at Indymac included managing the legal department of the corporation, including the corporation's relations with outside counsel, as well as managing the corporation's compliance and insurance departments. | 