New York

Firm overview

Clients from global brands and household names to cutting-edge startups and individuals trust Loeb litigators to resolve their thorniest legal disputes, whether that’s litigation in state and federal trial and appellate courts across the country; investigations and enforcement actions before government agencies; or mediation, arbitration and regulatory agency proceedings.

Loeb litigators deliver practical and strategic counsel with a consistent focus on our clients’ business objectives and a steady determination not only to achieve the best possible outcome — in or out of the courtroom — but also to minimize risk, protect their brands and secure their competitive advantages in their markets and industries. Our lawyers have deep fluency in the law, courtroom-proven skills and well-earned reputations for effective advocacy based on decades of experience working with — and across the table from — clients, opposing counsel, judges and government regulators.

We approach every case as if trial is inevitable, and we are ready to go when the courtroom is the right answer, as we have in hundreds of cases and arbitrations. We know that this trial-focused approach is the best way to present a formidable case to a judge or jury — and to avoid a costly trial through a favorable settlement or quick disposition.

Our decades of litigation experience also enable us to provide valuable counsel to clients on risk avoidance, and our litigators often work closely with colleagues from practices across the firm to help identify and avoid potential disputes and areas of exposure that could turn contentious down the road.

Loeb litigators handle disputes across a wide range of services, including:

Practices:

Antitrust
Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Creditors’ Rights
Consumer Class Action & Regulatory Defense
Employment & Labor
IP & Patents
Insurance Coverage & Defense
Privacy
Securities
Tax
Trust & Estates
White Collar

Industries:

Advertising & Media
Energy
Entertainment, Music & Sports
Family Office
Financial Services
Life Sciences
Nonprofit
Professional Services
Public Sector
Real Estate
Retail & Consumer Brands
Technology

Updated Sep 2023

Firm overview

Boies Schiller Flexner is a firm of internationally acclaimed trial lawyers, crisis managers, and strategic advisers, known for its creative, aggressive, and efficient pursuit of successful outcomes for clients. The firm has a proven history of handling and winning complex, groundbreaking, and cross-border matters across various industries. Whether tackling thorny, high stakes-matters or straightforward business disputes, the Boies Schiller Flexner team excels at identifying the strongest arguments, understanding their value, and determining when and how to deploy them in a case.

Boies Schiller Flexner attorneys use the law as a strategic tool to maximize value and mitigate risk, approaching every case as if it’s bound for trial, relentlessly and methodically developing the factual record from the outset to position clients for success in or out of the courtroom.

The firm builds deep, long-standing relationships with clients, enabling it to provide guidance on any matter, in any forum, whether representing them as plaintiffs or defendants. Clients benefit from its extensive experience with trials before juries and judges and in international arbitration proceedings worldwide.

With offices located across the United States and in London and Italy, Boies Schiller Flexner operates as a unified firm, offering a seamless approach to building the most skillful and cost-effective team for every matter.

Practice Areas: 

• Aerospace and Satellite 
• Antitrust and Competition 
• Appellate 
• Asset Recovery and Judgment Enforcement 
• Class Actions, Opt-Outs, and Multidistrict Litigation 
• Commercial Disputes 
• Constitutional Law 
• Corporate, Ethical, and ESG Compliance 
• Creditor Rights, Bankruptcy and Restructuring 
• Crisis Management 
• Data Privacy and Cybersecurity 
• Elections and Political Disputes 
• Energy Law 
• Sports and Gaming 
• Environmental Law 
• False Claims Act/Qui Tam 
• Financial Institutions and Private Equity 
• Global Investigations and White Collar Defense 
• Government Litigation 
• Insurance Disputes 
• International Arbitration 
• Intellectual Property Litigation 
• Life Sciences and Health Care 
• Matrimonial and Family Law
• Media and First Amendment
• Partnership and Employment Disputes
• Professional Malpractice
• Products Liability
• Real Estate Disputes
• Securities and Financial Products Litigation
• Technology 

Updated Sep 2024

Firm overview

Regularly hailed as one of the strongest litigation teams in the industry, the Debevoise litigation practice has been described by The American Lawyer as akin to “the Army Rangers—a small but elite group that works seamlessly and handles the most challenging cases,” consistently delivering outstanding results for its clients.

Recent matters include:

·       Won a landmark victory on behalf of Ripple Labs in a ruling against the SEC in the SDNY holding that Ripple’s digital token XRP is not a security or “investment” contract in many circumstances

·       Successfully overturned a billion-dollar federal district court judgment against BMO Bank

·       Secured a preliminary injunction on behalf of James River in Manhattan Supreme Court that awarded specific performance and required the buyer to close on the acquisition of a James River subsidiary under the terms of the purchase agreement

·       Won a $100 million award for Gramercy Funds Management and Gramercy Peru Holding in an UNCITRAL arbitration against the Republic of Peru

·       Won a full preliminary injunction in federal court in Maine on behalf of WEX to prevent HP’s use of “HP WEX” on its new software platform and eventually settled the case on highly favorable terms

·       Secured the acquittal of former Fox executive Hernan Lopez in a seven-week federal criminal trial involving allegations of fraud and bribery

·       Successfully defended Casa Azul Spirits in a significant trial victory (following a five-day bench trial in Houston, Texas) against allegations of trademark infringement, unfair competition and dilution brought by Casa Tradición, the maker of Clase Azul tequila

·       Secured a decision that reversed a previous ruling granting nationwide class certification against RentGrow, a subsidiary of Yardi Systems

·       Secured a landmark victory on behalf of the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law for an advisory opinion on the legal obligations of countries relating to climate change before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

·       Helped obtain relief in federal courts for nearly 57 inmates serving onerous sentences resulting from outdated mandatory sentencing provisions that were disproportionately invoked against Black men

The firm’s Litigation practice is led by co-chairs Andrew Ceresney and Jyotin Hamid and features an all-star roster, including former Attorneys General Lord Peter Goldsmith KC and Michael Mukasey and former Chair of the SEC Mary Jo White. The team also includes over a dozen former assistant U.S. attorneys or Department of Justice attorneys, among them a former federal district court judge, the former Acting Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ Criminal Division, the former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for National Security, three former Unit Chiefs of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement and the former Deputy Director of the Division of Examinations at the SEC.

The breadth of experience offered by Debevoise in and out of the courtroom sets their litigators apart. They bring personal attention, seasoned judgment, deep industry knowledge, credibility and substantive legal experience to each matter, tailoring advice to clients’ needs and circumstances. They work seamlessly and collaboratively with clients and co-counsel and across practices to achieve the best possible results for our clients.

Based in New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Shanghai and Hong Kong, their broadly skilled team of over 350 litigators handle domestic and cross-border disputes of every kind and complex matters in courts in the United States, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, France and elsewhere, as well as before arbitration tribunals, agencies and administrative bodies worldwide. They represent clients as plaintiffs and defendants in a wide range of areas, including:

• Antitrust & Competition
• Arbitration & International Disputes
• Bankruptcy
• Business Integrity
• Crisis Management
• Data Strategy & Security
• Commercial Litigation
• Insurance Industry Disputes
• Intellectual Property
• Internal Investigations
• Labor & Employment Litigation
• Product Liability
• Securities Enforcement
• Securities Litigation
• Trial Practice
• White Collar & Regulatory Defense

Another notable and distinguishing feature of the Debevoise Litigation practice is the success of their women partners. Benchmark Litigation has named nine Debevoise women litigation partners among the Top 250 Women in Litigation this year—an exceptional ranking for a firm of its size. Since the inception of Benchmark Litigation’s Top 250 Women in Litigation list in 2013, the firm’s partners have been recognized every year for demonstrating its tradition of serving clients at the highest levels and of contributing to the development and advancement of distinguished women leaders.

Updated Oct 2024

Firm overview

Sophisticated clients worldwide entrust us with their formidable disputes for a single reason–our remarkable track record. Clients seek our advice on high-stakes litigation and cross-border disputes, as well as government and internal investigations in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Anti-Discrimination and DEI Advisory: Our practice is dedicated to providing comprehensive legal counsel and strategic guidance on matters relating to anti-discrimination laws and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Our areas of focus include workplace investigations, litigation, legal compliance, culture and equity reviews, strategic counseling and training and education.

Antitrust and Trade Regulation: Clients turn to us for our record of success in handling high-stakes antitrust disputes, investigations, and achieving regulatory clearance for the largest and most complicated transactions. We advise clients on internal investigations, enforcement matters, and regulatory issues in connection with the OFAC, the Department of State, and the SEC.

Appellate: Our clients appreciate that Simpson Thacher is a formidable force in the appellate arena. They turn to us for our reputation for procuring against‑the‑odds, law-defining appellate rulings across a wide range of areas, including class actions, commercial, securities litigation, and pro bono.

Bankruptcy: Our comprehensive practice covers all aspects of bankruptcy-related litigation–from disputes over plan confirmation to tender liability and equitable subordination claims to issues arising out of insurance disputes and mass tort-related bankruptcies.

ERISA Litigation: Clients benefit from our coordinated advice in closely aligned areas, including securities, bankruptcy, and government investigations, and our ability to present arguments and evidence in the manner best suited to advance business interests and resolve conflicts with minimal disruption to their operations.

False Advertising Litigation: Companies in a broad range of fields, including pharmaceuticals, financial services, consumer products and food and beverage, turn to us for our significant experience in false advertising litigation, including disputes between competitors and consumer class actions.

Funds, Regulatory and Investigations: Our team includes attorneys with decades of experience in the funds industry, former senior government officials from the SEC, and former U.S. federal prosecutors, who draw upon their deep experience and institutional knowledge to provide sophisticated advice to clients on a broad spectrum of critical regulatory and compliance issues.

Government and Internal Investigations: Large and small companies and their boards, audit and special committees, officers and directors, and other individuals regularly turn to us for advice on a wide range of criminal, regulatory, congressional and other sensitive government inquiries and internal investigations.

Insurance and Reinsurance: Clients benefit from our experience as the leading firm representing the interests of both ceding companies and reinsurers in litigations and arbitrations throughout the United States, the United Kingdom and Bermuda. Major insurance groups, including Travelers, AIG, Berkshire Hathaway, Lloyd’s of London and CNA have trusted us on their most significant matters.

Intellectual Property: Understanding and protecting IP is crucial to the long-term success of many businesses. Clients seek our advice in high-stakes, “make it or break it” disputes and rely on our broad array of substantive experience in both litigation and transactional matters to help them protect their interests.

International Disputes and Arbitration: We handle high-stakes international disputes and commercial crises, where the outcome is uncertain and our clients need the highest quality of service. Our collaborative team operates 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.

International Regulatory and Compliance: With increased activism and cross-border cooperation between enforcement and regulatory agencies, we represent the interests of a wide array of clients operating in multiple jurisdictions and have advised on issues in China, India, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa.

Mergers and Acquisitions Litigation: Clients seek our market-leading advice in all aspects of M&A litigation—where we excel at defending challenges to the largest and most complex mergers and acquisitions. They appreciate our extensive experience defeating efforts to enjoin transactions prior to closing; resolving claims through reasonable settlements pre-closing; and litigating claims for damages post-closing.

Privacy and Cybersecurity: Our multidisciplinary Privacy and Cybersecurity team advises global companies facing heightened regulatory, contractual and consumer obligations surrounding the management of data, including personal data and use of AI.

Product Liability and Mass Tort: Since the 1970s, clients have relied on our advice as a leader in the development of product liability and mass tort law in the United States. We have taken countless product liability and mass tort cases to jury trial in state and federal courts over the years, amassing invaluable courtroom experience.

Securities: For decades, clients have relied on our securities litigators in the most complex, high-profile, high-stakes securities matters of the day. The country’s most respected Fortune 500 corporations and financial institutions turn to us to help defend against headline-making allegations.

Whistleblower and False Claims Act: Companies and their boards have relied on us to respond to allegations by whistleblowers and to help them devise and implement corporate whistleblower policies. Clients seek our counsel on whistleblower matters in a broad range of sectors—including defense, healthcare, technology and financial services.

Office Locations: New York • Beijing • Boston • Brussels • Hong Kong • Houston • London • Los Angeles • Palo Alto • São Paulo • Tokyo • Washington, D.C.

Updated Oct 2024