Boies Schiller Flexner LLP

Boies Schiller Flexner, one of the world’s leading international dispute resolution firms, enjoys a reputation for winning in complex, high risk disputes where results matter most. Boies Schiller Flexner’s London office is the English law firm of choice for US and UK financial institutions, investment funds, governments and corporates to lead on their highest profile multi-jurisdictional litigation, arbitrations and investigations. The firm won Commercial Litigation Team of the Year at the 2017 Legal Business Awards.

Types of work undertaken: Litigation: The team has extensive experience in the English courts (Commercial Court, Chancery Division, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court) and throughout the world, including most European and Asian jurisdictions. Case highlights this year include Davidson Kempner, Goldman Sachs and Barclays v Essar – in a complex and far-reaching litigation concerning a cross-border dispute and for Teesside Gas Transportation Limited in a high-value energy/natural resources litigation.

Arbitration: Boies Schiller Flexner arbitrators represent clients in arbitral proceedings all over the world in front of forums such as the ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, ICSID, AAA, NASD and in ad hoc arbitration. The firm’s lawyers regularly appear before tribunals in Paris, Geneva, London, Zurich, Stockholm, Hong Kong and throughout the US in a wide variety of commercial disputes that often involve parallel US litigation. In 2016 BSF arbitrators secured a legislative change in Greece after leading a wide-ranging arbitration for client OPAP, against the Greek State.

Global investigations and white-collar defence: The London arm of the global investigations team represent institutions and individuals involved in sensitive, complex regulatory enforcement and white-collar defence appearing before FCA, SFO, Financial Reporting Counsel, US Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, the CFTC, state attorney general, and other state and federal agencies. Boies Schiller Flexner also regularly conducts internal investigations on behalf of corporate clients and implements effective compliance programmes. In addition, the group has extensive experience across all global securities and commodities law including insider trading and market manipulation, criminal antitrust violations, data privacy and cybersecurity and anticorruption laws including the FCPA and UK Bribery Act.