Practices · № I — IV
Four blades, one edge.
The firm does four things. It declines, politely and often, to do a fifth — breadth is how standards drown, and ours have been dry since 1927.
Practice № I
Disputes &
Arbitration.
Commercial litigation and international arbitration, conducted on the theory that the best disputes are the ones your competitors never learn existed. We prepare as if for trial from the first hour — which is precisely why so few of our matters ever need one.
- Seats
- London · Singapore · Zurich · Paris
- Typical value
- £20m — £500m+
- Trial rate
- 1 in 9 — by design
Practice № II
Corporate &
Transactions.
Mergers, carve-outs, rescues and exits — including the eleven-day kind. Our deal teams are deliberately small: two partners who know everything beats nine associates who each know a ninth.
- Closed, 2025
- £2.9bn across 14 deals
- Team size
- Never more than six
- Deadline record
- 11 days, signature in four zones
Practice № III
Private Wealth
& Estates.
Families and fortunes, kept intact across borders and generations. Trusts, succession, art and awkward conversations — we handle the structures, and we are unusually good at the conversations.
- Families of record
- 60+, some in a fourth generation
- Jurisdictions
- 11, coordinated from Zurich
- House speciality
- Estates with art in them
Practice № IV
Regulatory &
Investigations.
Dawn raids, disclosure storms and the long quiet negotiations that follow. Our first advice fits on a card by your door; our second usually begins with the words "say nothing further."
- The 6 a.m. line
- Staffed, every day of the year
- First hour
- Counsel on the phone in 20 minutes
- Outcome, most matters
- No public finding
Method
How a matter is taken.
The conflicts check
Before any detail is exchanged, we confirm we are free to act. It takes hours, not days, and it is the reason our word means something.
The room
One meeting, two counsel, no deck. You talk; we ask short questions. By the end you will know if we are the right firm — and so will we.
The single page
Our advice arrives as one page: position, risk, recommendation. The thinking behind it fills boxes; the page is what you act on.