Litigation · Arbitration · Enforcement
Pakt Halloran & Reyes is a partnership of trial lawyers and arbitration counsel in fourteen cities. We have no transactional practice, which means no relationship on the other side of your matter that we need to protect, and no reason to settle a case for less than it is worth.
The firm does not publish individual profiles. What matters to a counterparty is not who signs the letter but who is available to try the case, and how many of them there are.
The Commercial Court dismissed a US$2.1 billion claim arising out of a structured reinsurance programme, accepting our client's construction of the treaty in full and awarding costs on the indemnity basis. Permission to appeal was refused.
Expropriation claim brought for a Gulf infrastructure investor after eleven days of hearings in Paris.
Trade secret and contract claims were disposed of before expert discovery, on a documentary record assembled in the first ten weeks of the case.
The London office adds two commercial litigation partners and a partner in the enforcement group, taking the London partnership to fourteen..
Assets were identified in four jurisdictions and restrained pending satisfaction of a US$410 million judgment obtained by the firm in 2024.
Acting for a group of minority holders.
The firm published guidance for award creditors on the narrowing of the commercial use exception and its practical effect on attachment strategy..
Defence of an Asian conglomerate in a dispute running to five years and four preliminary applications.
The principal legal directories placed the firm in the highest available band for commercial litigation or international arbitration in the United States, England and Wales, France, Germany, Singapore, and the United Arab Emirates..
Authorities in two jurisdictions closed their files against a listed industrial group and three of its directors without charge, following voluntary disclosure and an internal investigation conducted by the firm..
Practices
Every practice at the firm ends in a courtroom, a tribunal, or an enforcement proceeding. Teams are formed around where the matter will be decided and who will decide it.
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The firm was founded on a single constraint: no transactional practice, no regulatory advisory practice, nothing that creates a client we would rather not offend. That constraint is why we can accept instructions against parties other firms are conflicted out of, and why our advice on the merits arrives without commercial hedging.
Matters are staffed small and senior. The lawyer who argues the case is the lawyer who has been in the documents since the first week.
Fee arrangements
Where local professional rules permit, the firm takes claims on a contingent or partly contingent basis. A counterparty should assume the firm is paid more for winning than for billing.
Several claims can be financed as a single portfolio, which allows a client with one strong case and three difficult ones to bring all four.
The firm works with third party funders and after-the-event insurers, and has run matters to judgment against opponents many times the size of the claimant.
The firm accepts a limited number of instructions each year and runs conflicts before any substantive discussion takes place. Please do not send confidential information until the firm has confirmed in writing that it is able to act.