Practice № I
Disputes & Arbitration.
The loudest thing about our disputes practice is this page. Everything else happens in rooms with the door shut, on the record only when the record serves you.
The approach
Prepared like a trial.
Resolved like a rumour.
Every matter is built to win in court from the first hour: the chronology, the documents, the witnesses who hold. Paradoxically, this is the fastest route away from court — opponents who see a finished case tend to discover flexibility.
We appear before the major arbitral institutions and the English courts, and we are seated wherever the clause demands. What we do not do is theatre. No press strategy, no performative aggression — pressure applied precisely, in writing, once.
- Forums
- ICC · LCIA · SIAC · English courts
- Seats, 2025
- London 9 · Singapore 7 · Zurich 4
- Languages
- EN · DE · FR · Mandarin desk
- Typical value
- £20m — £500m+
- Trial rate
- 1 in 9 — by design
- Fees
- Fixed-fee phases, quoted in writing
Protocol
The first 72 hours.
Freeze the record
Litigation hold, document preservation, and a short list of people who must say nothing clever. Most disputes are lost in the first week's emails.
Build the chronology
One timeline, every document pinned to it. By hour 48 we know your worst fact — and by hour 49 the strategy assumes the other side knows it too.
The single page
Position, exposure, recommendation. Whether that page says fight, settle or wait, it will say it in plain English with a number attached.
“Fourteen months of arbitration and my board never once read about it over breakfast. That was the entire brief, and they delivered it.”