As a single, fully integrated, global partnership, we pride ourselves on our approachable, collegial and team-based way of working.
We always strive to exceed the expectations of our clients, which include corporates from all the commercial and industrial sectors, the financial investor community, governments, regulators, trade bodies and not-for-profit organisations. We provide them with the highest-quality advice and legal insight, which combines the Firm's global standards with in-depth local expertise.
Last, but not least, we aim to be easy to work with, down to earth and approachable.
We advise clients on public and private M&A, disposals, demergers, joint ventures, restructurings, corporate governance and regulatory compliance, with a particular focus on complex, cross-border transactions. Our integrated team includes experts in antitrust/competition law, funds and investment management, insurance, private equity and public policy.
Our clients include many of the world's leading companies including more than half of the Global Fortune 500. Our extensive global reach, combined with international deal execution skills and local market knowledge, provides clients with access to 200 partners and a further 500 lawyers with global and local capability.
Our team also offers clients the combination of focused technical and industry expertise across 12 sectors from financial services through to energy & resources and healthcare. We are also supported by partners in our market leading finance, capital markets, litigation, tax, pensions, employment and real estate practices.
Through our extensive global network of offices in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa, we can offer an ideal ability to assist insurance companies throughout their global operations and on their international expansion plans.
Our integrated cross-practice team includes sector experts from across our corporate and M&A, regulatory, banking & finance, capital markets, dispute resolution, antitrust, tax, real estate, IT/IP pensions and employment teams.
Reputation for acting on ground-breaking, first of a kind mandates
As a highly experienced practice we work at the forefront of the market advising clients on the latest developments and issues facing the sector. We can offer clients support across the full range of their legal needs, including on:
Trusted advisor to the world's leading insurance and reinsurance companies
We advise clients from across the global life, general and reinsurance markets including Admiral, Allianz, Assicurazioni Generali, Aspen, AXA XL, Chubb, Domestic & General, Legal & General, LV=, Willis Towers Watson, MetLife, and Swiss Re. We also advise insurance brokers, London Market participants, Bermudan based insurers, mutuals, run-off specialists and banks as counterparties to insurers.
Our lawyers handling Intellectual Property work collaborate closely with our antitrust experts in finding solutions to the issues that can arise from the tensions between the two areas of expertise.
Intellectual property advice
Our Intellectual Property teams offer a breadth of experience in Intellectual Property transactional and advisory work, covering the full range of Intellectual Property subjects, in both domestic and international contexts. Like our IP disputes lawyers, most of our transactional and advisory Intellectual Property lawyers focus on specific sectors and bring both pure and applied legal knowledge to client projects.
Intellectual property disputes and enforcement
Our Intellectual Property lawyers have extensive experience of strategizing, pursuing and defending Intellectual Property disputes in a wide range of forums. Our Intellectual Property lawyers are used to dealing with technical and specific subject matter, and many of them focus on specific sectors, giving them an applied knowledge of how Intellectual Property is exploited in practice. They frequently work with colleagues and external local lawyers in other jurisdictions to ensure claims are pursued consistently and in the most appropriate forums.
They will pursue and defend cases aggressively and effectively but are able to resolve a high percentage of disputes by negotiated settlements.
Our global network provides an exceptional platform for handling major cross-border disputes and in recent years we have helped our clients to achieve success in some of the most complex international disputes and investigations.
We offer a seamless, integrated service across our network of offices for cross-border disputes and investigations, with expertise in individual jurisdictions but also an understanding of the interplay between different legal systems and regulations.
Clifford Chance's global Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice has around 500 lawyers based in the UK, Continental Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and the United States, who are experienced in the full spectrum of litigation, dispute resolution and regulatory issues that our clients face. Our highly qualified teams are focused on resolving high risk litigation, international arbitration and regulatory investigations.
We are committed to resolving disputes as efficiently as possible and are focussed on offering solutions that are practical and commercial. Our peers know that we are always prepared to proceed, however, and recognise our record in delivering results for clients in major litigation and arbitrations. Our credibility is also acknowledged by regulators and prosecutors, which assists with the effective resolution of investigations and other negotiations.
Forensic Accounting team
Clifford Chance's legal teams are supported by an in-house team of specialist accountants and economists in London and New York who provide assistance and expertise on all financial aspects of litigation, arbitration and investigations. Assignments vary from ad hoc assistance on a specific financial issue to major investigations undertaken jointly with the legal teams.
Members of the team have worked alongside the Clifford Chance legal teams, clients and independent experts on many of the firm's most significant matters in recent years, advising on a range of financial, accounting and commercial issues across many different industries and jurisdictions
Why Clifford Chance
Clifford Chance is a long-standing trusted partner for sophisticated global clients and key players in the market in cross-border litigation, international arbitration and investigations.
With an integrated network of highly qualified individuals, we have the commitment, resources and know-how to get your deals done, whatever and wherever they are.
Forward thinking and commercial in our approach, with a proven ability to deliver complex deals, we handle the entire property 'life-cycle' from the initial acquisition, development, leasing, joint venturing and financing through to the final exit.
Our scale, geographical reach and seamless, coordinated approach means that we can support any real estate project.
Unlike many competitors, we have offices with tax expertise across the globe and with over 170 tax advisors worldwide, we possess one of the largest international tax groups of any single law firm. We deliver commercial advice across the full spectrum of international and domestic tax issues and have unparalleled experience in advising on cross-border transactions.
Our experienced employment, incentives and pensions specialists work with clients from a wide range of sectors to address local and cross-border issues.
Clients, ranging from global businesses to small enterprises, have come to trust and rely on the experience of our dedicated teams based across our network of offices. To help you keep on top of the risks and opportunities arising from changes in the law, we track and anticipate the latest legislative proposals in the jurisdictions that are important to your business.
