We are an international law firm advising on complex transactions and disputes through local knowledge and an integrated international network. We have a strong sector focus, combining our technical excellence with deep industry knowledge across energy, transport and associated infrastructure.
Our business exists to help our clients achieve their goals, partnering with them to meet the challenges they face today and will face tomorrow.
Our values rest on developing deep and long-lasting relationships externally and internally through respect, sharing, communication and integrity.
We strive for excellence in all that we do and view investment in our people as key to achieving our business goals and values.
Our teams are integrated across legal disciplines and offices delivering consistently high levels of service locally and in combination across borders.
Sector focus has been at the heart of our strategy since we opened for business in 1982. Having started life as an asset finance boutique focussing on the maritime and aviation industries, our Transport focus quickly expanded to other supply-chain led industries, most notably, Renewable and Conventional Energy and associated infrastructure across these industries.
Through our offices around the world, we provide a full suite of services within our core sectors enabling us to deliver exceptional value to our clients.
Partner-led and integrated, our lawyers advise on domestic and cross-border corporate activity.
Our advice spans the full range of corporate and commercial activities from mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances and other co-operations, corporate finance, private equity, capital markets, venture and growth capital to corporate restructurings, commercial contracts, leveraged and management buyouts, workouts, recapitalisations and insolvency matters.
With an outstanding reputation in our core sectors, we are regularly appointed as lead counsel on some of the largest, most significant transactions, where we bring our multi-disciplinary teams together to provide holistic and commercially viable solutions.
Our dispute resolution lawyers are world leaders in the firm’s specialist sectors of Transport (maritime and aviation) and Energy (mining & commodities, oil & gas and power). We have a global reputation in construction and engineering disputes and are equally renowned for our infrastructure-related disputes experience. We frequently advise on ongoing projects to proactively mitigate and manage dispute risk.
We regularly act for banks, PE funds and other financial institutions. From advice on contentious aspects of asset finance and project finance through to restructuring and insolvency, our clients benefit from our pragmatic and responsive support. Our skills and experience in maritime finance enforcement are second to none.
We have substantial experience representing clients in high value international arbitrations conducted in various institutions across the world, including ADCCAC, DIAC, DIFC-LCIA, HKIAC, ICC, ICSID, LCIA, LMAA, QICCA, SCC and SIAC. We regularly advise on disputes ranging from sector specific matters in front of specialist tribunals through to investment treaty arbitrations. A number of our partners accept appointments as arbitrators.
Each of our offices has expertise in commercial litigation in front of its own national courts, and globally we work together to conduct high value, complex multi-jurisdictional disputes. In addition, we have expertise in competition, regulatory and investigative matters.
We work hard to avoid disputes where possible and regularly advise on alternative dispute resolution, including mediation. We firmly believe that the successful resolution of a dispute need not always involve formal proceedings. Our deep sector understanding and practical, commercial advice means that we consistently secure effective solutions for our clients, co-ordinating across jurisdictions to ensure that we can assist our clients wherever they do business.
As social mobility continues to increase, and the framework of our working lives become ever-more regulated, our team handles every aspect of employment law.
Large multinational companies seek our advice on the employment consequences of corporate reorganisation, restructuring and outsourcing arrangements, including in relation to TUPE issues. We are especially strong in the energy and transport industries, where our clients benefit from our understanding of sector-specific commercial drivers and how they impact employment-related situations.
We regularly create customised solutions to complex projects meeting specific requirements within existing business frameworks such as the introduction and reorganisation of compensation schemes. Across potentially contentious matters, our experience ranges from works council and collective bargaining to disciplinary issues and termination of employment. We are experienced in employment law proceedings, regularly representing our clients in tribunals and courts.
In addition to working with our clients to formulate longer term business strategy that takes employment legislation into account, we provide day-to-day operational advice. We see everything from flexible working and parental leave to redundancies, restrictive covenants and bonus schemes where we often take the role of an in-house adviser.
Immigration
We provide bespoke advice on complex immigration issues to businesses and individuals, whether seeking to establish in or transferring to a new jurisdiction.
Our advice spans all aspects of immigration and includes co-ordinating the entire process from transfer of staff across international operations to hiring migrant workers. We give commercially expedient advice, going the extra mile when faced with time constraints or visa refusals.
An impact of the increasing global appetite for real estate assets is that property transactions are becoming ever more complicated, structurally and financially. Our international scope combined with local expertise on the ground qualify us to handle and complete a multitude of complex cross-border real estate transactions.
Our multi-disciplinary team has a hands-on approach that gives you finely tuned commercially-focussed advice for every stage of the property lifecycle including site assembly, planning, construction, project development, financing, sale and purchase, leasing and investment. And with a wide understanding of the real estate market, our restructuring and dispute resolution lawyers can expertly steer you through commercial difficulty or economic downturn.
We represent owners, developers, landlords, tenants, lenders and investors including private equity, REITs and borrowers across all segments of the real estate market, from office, retail, hotels and hospitality to logistics and mixed-use.
In addition to standalone real estate mandates, we add particular value to infrastructure projects across the energy and transport sectors, regularly advising on the real estate aspects of large, multi-faceted projects through a combination of our technical expertise and industry knowledge.
