US Firms in London with Good Disputes Practices?

[Income and Expenses]

Hi Everyone! I'm just wondering which US firms in London have 'good' disputes practices. Off the top of my head, I have Debevoise, Skadden, Gibson Dunn. Was hoping to add a few more onto my list so I could shoot some appliations off to them Thanks so much.

 

[Alice G]

Hi Everyone! I'm just wondering which US firms in London have 'good' disputes practices. Off the top of my head, I have Debevoise, Skadden, Gibson Dunn. Was hoping to add a few more onto my list so I could shoot some appliations off to them Thanks so much.

Those are probably the ones I would think of off the top of my head too - GD especially. i am tagging @Daniel Boden as someone who applied more to US firms than myself who may have more knowledge on this than me

 

[A friendly human]

kirkland? latham? might be wrong on this though

i guess that the ranking websites can be useful e.g. https://chambers.com/guide/uk?publi...reaId=717&subsectionTypeId=1&locationId=11814

 

[Dheepa]

To add to Ram's point, Latham are doing their very best to up their London Disputes Team, and after going to several events/doing the vac with them, growth in London (including growing their disputes team) seems to be a huge focus for them. So I think while an interest in transactional work is important, it's not going to go down badly that you're interested in disputes/might even demonstrate the extent of your research into the firm. I would also look into some of the lateral hires they've made into their disputes team recently, I remember seeing some headline in The Lawyer a couple of months back so maybe try to find that!

 

[A friendly human]

Both are good for disputes too, along with White & Case. However, all 3 firms are transactional focused (as are their TCs), so if you apply to them, I'd be careful about how much you specify an interest in disputes.

In my opinion, Skadden, Quin Emanuel and Gibson Dunn are the best for disputes as they're highly ranked across different types of disputes around the world (commercial litigation, international arbitration, white collar, competition litigation etc). The Legal 500 USA and Chambers USA are great resources to see which US firms are the best at disputes (the disputes might not be London centric but at least you'll be working on top level disputes work).

good points. i would expect jones day to be added to that list if we're going global haha. quinn sadly doesn't offer TCs

 

[Daniel Boden]

I completely agree with what @Raam and @Ren97 have said - the above firms mentioned are probably the best US firms for disputes with Gibson Dunn's disputes and international arbitration practice being #1 in my biased opinion

 

[bendico1860]

White & Case, Debevoise, Quinn Emanuel, Skadden especially in arbitration are a class apart (not just commercial arbitration which many are good at but investor-state)