We are advocates specialising in complex international litigation, arbitration and other contentious matters where having a top-quality legal team is outcome-determinative. We are an exacting, close-knit and collaborative team, situated within a leading, global full-service law firm, operating worldwide from the Firm’s London office. The scope of our practice from the London office reaches across all of North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.
We handle high-stakes international disputes and commercial crises, where the outcome is uncertain and our clients need the highest quality of service, with results to match. Clients turn to us not only when the monetary stakes are high, but equally when reputations are at risk or the potential implications are significant and their disputes may impact existing or future commercial relationships, market position or other critical business objectives.
Litigation
We represent clients in large-scale commercial disputes in the courts of England and the United States where we are licensed to practice. We devise and direct successful strategies in litigation around the world, working closely with local counsel in foreign jurisdictions, where clients wish to bring our experience, creative thinking, and top-tier advocacy skills into play. Our experience spans commercial disputes of all kinds, injunctions and urgent interim relief, contentious insolvency proceedings, corporate schemes and tax litigation. Jurisdictions in which we have managed significant litigations include Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Singapore, South Korea, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Cayman Islands, Cyprus and Brazil.
Arbitration
We represent clients in international commercial arbitrations conducted in the English language under virtually any system of governing law and all of the major arbitral institutions and rules (ICC, LCIA, SCC, AAA, JAMS, HKIAC, SIAC, UNCITRAL, ad hoc) and based in venues throughout the world, when clients want to employ our leading advocacy skills to achieve the best possible outcome, consistent with their commercial objectives. We have conducted international arbitrations seated in all of London, New York, Paris, Houston, Miami, Chicago, Stockholm, Geneva, Vienna, Copenhagen, Singapore, Hong Kong and São Paulo.
Advisory
We advise, alongside our colleagues, on strategies to achieve client objectives in commercial situations, working as part of multi-disciplinary teams spanning M&A, Funds, Restructuring, Tax, Credit and Real Estate groups. Our perspective, coupled with deep experience of complex disputes, fosters new solutions or creative arguments to advance our clients’ transactional goals.
Our representations include:
- Leading global private equity firms and their portfolio companies in connection with a broad spectrum of contentious, cross-border M&A, investor and shareholder, key-person and senior-executive disputes, both in arbitration and litigation;
- Investor consortiums in troubled infrastructure projects;
- Shareholder and joint venture disputes concerning a broad variety of interests, including in the energy, telecommunications, information technology, hospitality, commercial real estate and financial services sectors;
- Global aerospace and defense manufacturers in international arbitrations and commercial litigations concerning their supply relationships;
- Global asset management firms in distressed investments and related insolvency proceedings;
- International oil and gas companies in major commercial litigations and arbitrations; and
- Global insurance companies in major policyholder and reinsurance disputes including in relation to the Ukraine conflict, COVID-19 business interruption, and large-scale environmental and mass-tort events, both in arbitration and in litigation.