We are six partners. We take a small number of contested matters a year and try them ourselves — class certification, second requests, grand jury, Section 337, cross-border sanction hearings. The lawyer who reads the first document is the lawyer at the lectern.
Instructedin these forums this year
11
Matters accepted last year
1:2.5
Partner to associate
$4.2B
Largest exposure defended
Most firms answer a bet-the-company dispute with a pyramid. We answer it with three or four partners who have read every document. That constraint is the product: it caps how much work we can take, it decides which matters we accept, and it is the reason a general counsel can call one number and reach the person who will cross the plaintiffs' economist.
How the firm is put togetherThree or four active matters per partner
A hard ceiling, counted every quarter
142
Substantive inquiries
received last year
11
Matters accepted
out of those
$1.2B
Recovered for a senior
secured creditor group
0
Fraud charges brought
in our enforcement work
Figures cover the twelve months to 31 December and reflect matters handled by the partnership. Outcomes described elsewhere on this site are specific to the facts of those matters; prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
We accept work in five areas and decline the rest. Each is led by a named partner who argues the matters personally — in court, before the agency, or in front of the Commission.
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Recent matters across the five practices, described the way the engagement letters allow: the sector, the forum, the posture, and what the court or the agency did. Clients are not named.
Certification denied on predominance, the plaintiffs' econometric model excluded in the same order, and the action dismissed with prejudice.
Final initial determination of no violation. The Commission declined review. Cross-license reached on commercial terms.
Unanimous verdict after less than five hours of deliberation, $312M in damages, and a permanent injunction.
Confirmation in New York and sanction in London on overlapping records. The first-lien class recovered par-plus consideration.
No hand-offs between intake, discovery and trial. The partner who clears conflicts is the partner who stands up at the hearing — which is why we can only run a few of these at a time.
A partner takes the call and runs conflicts the same day. If the matter sits outside what we try, or the calendar cannot hold it at the standard it needs, you hear that on the first call — not after a pitch.
Every matter is led by one of these six, from the conflicts check to the closing argument. Associates support the file; they do not run it, and they do not take the cross.
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The six or seven things a general counsel wants settled before instructing a firm on a matter that could decide the company.
Don't see your question?
Put it to a partner directlyTell us what the exposure is and which forum it sits in. Conflicts are run the same day. If we are the wrong firm for it, we will say so and tell you who is not.
