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.
Cases built for trial from the first week, in the courts where the exposure actually sits. The firm appears as lead counsel rather than as local agent, and the lawyer who takes the case at the outset is the lawyer who argues it.
Contract, fraud, and duty claims where the amount at stake justifies trying the case rather than trading it.
Class and opt-out claims, prospectus liability, and issuer defence in the federal courts and abroad.
Board conduct, controller transactions, and information rights, with a standing Delaware bench.
Warranty, indemnity, and completion accounts disputes, usually against the party that drafted the agreement.
Follow-on damages, cartel defence, and standalone abuse claims across US and EU procedure.
Aggregate exposure, including coordinated arbitration filed at scale.
Records preserved for appeal from the pleadings onward, and appeals taken over from trial counsel.
Expedited Chancery litigation, books and records, and injunctive relief in deal disputes.
Institutional and ad hoc arbitration under every major set of rules, together with the annulment, recognition, and enforcement proceedings that follow. The firm treats the award as the midpoint of the matter.
ICC, LCIA, SCC, SIAC, HKIAC, and UNCITRAL proceedings seated across four continents.
Treaty claims against states and state entities, including expropriation and fair treatment claims.
Claims by and against sovereigns, including immunity, debt restructuring, and attachment.
Production sharing, offtake, price review, and joint operating agreement arbitration.
Delay, disruption, and defect claims on projects where the quantum is measured in years.
Coverage and treaty disputes for policyholders, insurers, and reinsurers.
A judgment or award that cannot be collected is a document. The firm keeps forensic accountants, tracing investigators, and enforcement counsel in house rather than retaining them, and opens enforcement in multiple jurisdictions in parallel.
Tracing, disclosure, and restraint of assets moved through corporate and trust structures.
Recognition under the New York Convention and domestic regimes, and attachment of state assets.
Freezing relief, search orders, and receiverships obtained on short notice.
Contested plans, lender-on-lender disputes, and avoidance claims in insolvency.
Structuring, deployment, and defence of funded and assigned claims.
Matters that begin before proceedings do. The firm is instructed when an authority has opened a file, when a board needs an independent account of what happened, or when both are true at once.
Internal investigations, self-reporting decisions, and defence of individuals and entities.
Designations, licensing, and contractual consequences across overlapping regimes.
Judicial review, enforcement defence, and challenges to regulatory action.
Simultaneous management of proceedings, authorities, counterparties, and disclosure.
Injunctions that can stop a product line, and the trial record needed to keep them in place. The firm's technology practice sits inside the disputes practice rather than beside it.
District court, ITC, and Unified Patent Court proceedings, including cross-border injunctions.
Departing employee and supply chain misappropriation, usually on an expedited basis.
Training data, model licensing, compute and data centre contracts, and output liability.
Derivatives, securitisation, and lender liability claims turning on documentation.
Manager removal, valuation, key person, and founder separation disputes.
Defamation, privacy, and publication disputes for corporate and individual clients.
Governing body proceedings, rights disputes, and talent litigation.
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