Litigation · Arbitration · Enforcement
We are a disputes-only firm of 62 lawyers in New York, London, and Geneva. We try high-stakes commercial cases, arbitrate international ones, and enforce what we win. A third of our cases arrive with another firm already on the record.
Clients come to us when a case has outgrown the firm running it: when the other side has instructed trial counsel, when the exposure has moved past what was budgeted, or when the advice they are getting has started to sound like management rather than litigation. Taking a case over late is normal work for us, not an exception.
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 and fair treatment claim for a Gulf infrastructure investor, seated in Paris, heard over eleven days.
Claims valued by the plaintiffs at US$900 million were dismissed in full on scienter and loss causation, on a motion filed eleven weeks after the consolidated complaint.
Two commercial litigation partners and a partner in the recovery group joined the London office, taking the London partnership to six.
Assets in four jurisdictions were identified and restrained pending satisfaction of a US$410 million judgment we obtained in 2024.
Acting for minority holders.
Sixty-three cases tried to judgment or final award since 2010, with first instance, appeal, and enforcement outcomes broken out and the counting rules stated.
Authorities in two jurisdictions closed their files against a listed industrial group and three of its directors without charge, following a voluntary disclosure and an internal investigation we conducted.
The challenge to the tribunal's jurisdiction and to the constitution of the panel was rejected on every ground.
A follow-on claim valued by the claimants at £540 million was struck out in its entirety, with costs.
Practices
Most of our cases settle. We build every one of them for the courtroom, the tribunal, or the enforcement proceeding it would otherwise reach, because that is what sets the number it settles at.
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We have no transactional practice and no regulatory advisory practice. That costs us a great deal of revenue, and it is the point. There is no corporate client down the hall we would rather not offend, so we can act against almost anyone, and we can tell you what we actually think your case is worth.
It also changes what a case is worth. A settlement number is set by what the other side expects to happen at trial, and that expectation moves when the preparation behind it is real.
Fee arrangements
Where local professional rules allow it, we take cases on a contingent or partly contingent basis. Hourly billing is a minority of our work, and we are paid more for winning than for billing.
We will finance several claims as one portfolio. That lets a client with one strong case and three difficult ones bring all four.
We work with third party funders and after-the-event insurers, and we have run cases to judgment against opponents many times the size of our client.
Most firms stop at the judgment. They start there.
We accept a limited number of new instructions each year, and we run conflicts before any substantive discussion. Please do not send us confidential information until we have confirmed in writing that we can act.
