Counsel of consequence.
For ninety-seven years, the matters that could not afford to become public have quietly become ours. Four practices. Three cities. One standard.
Practices · № I — IV
Four blades, one edge.
I
Disputes & Arbitration
Commercial litigation and international arbitration — fought rarely, settled formidably, and never leaked.
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II
Corporate & Transactions
Mergers, exits and the eleven-day deadlines everyone said were impossible. Signatures, delivered.
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III
Private Wealth & Estates
Families, fortunes and the quiet engineering that keeps both intact across generations and borders.
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IV
Regulatory & Investigations
When the regulator knocks at six a.m., we are the second call. We would prefer to be the first.
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The record · 1927 — 2026
A century, cross-examined.
Two barristers, one door
Edmund Harrow and Josiah Vane take rooms off Gray's Inn Road with a single shared conviction: discretion is a professional skill, not a personality trait.
Zurich opens
The firm follows its clients' capital across the Channel and into the Alps — the first English chambers with a standing Swiss desk.
The shipping arbitration
Fourteen months, three flags, one settlement so quiet that both fleets sailed on schedule. Still taught internally as the model of an invisible win.
Singapore opens
Raffles Place, seventh floor. Within a decade, a third of the firm's arbitration seatings move east — and stay there.
Forty counsel, by design
Growth is capped. Forty lawyers, three offices, no lateral hiring sprees — every counsel trained in the house style: brief, prepared, unbluffable.
Your matter
The record continues with the next brief. Conflicts are checked before any conversation begins — write first, say little, we will call.
Matters · anonymised, as they should be
Wins that never made the papers.
The £340m arbitration nobody heard about
Disputes · 14 monthsTwo industrial groups, three jurisdictions, one seat in Singapore — and a settlement signed before either side's shareholders knew there was a war.
M.009Eleven days to signature
Corporate · Cross-borderA rescue acquisition with a regulator's clock running. Four time zones of counsel, one working Christmas, zero extensions requested.
M.021An estate across four flags
Private wealth · EstatesA collector's legacy spanning four jurisdictions, two centuries of provenance and one delicate family. Settled in eighteen months, intact.
Counsel · 3 of 40
Briefed, prepared, unbluffable.
“Other firms sent decks. Harrow & Vane sent two people and a single page — and the page was right.”
Opinions · the firm's writing
Short letters, long consequences.
Why we write short letters
On the single page as a weapon: what a century of correspondence taught us about saying less, later, to greater effect.
Briefing · May 2026Arbitration seats after 2025
London, Singapore or Zurich? Where we are seating cross-border disputes this year, and the two clauses we now refuse to draft.
Note · March 2026The 6 a.m. protocol
What to do — and precisely what not to say — in the first hour of a dawn raid. Print it. Put it by the door. Hope it gathers dust.
Instruction
Bring us the matter others call impossible.
Write first and say little — the details belong in the room, not the inbox. Conflicts are checked before any conversation, and privilege is assumed from first contact.
Instruct us- First response
- Within one business day
- Conflicts check
- Before any detail is exchanged
- Privilege
- Assumed from first contact
- Offices
- London · Zurich · Singapore
- Out of hours
- The 6 a.m. line is staffed