Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP

The firm: Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, founded in 1830, was one of the first US law firms to develop a truly international practice. Dedicated to counselling clients involved with some of the most challenging transnational transactions and complex multijurisdictional disputes, Curtis represents multinational companies, international financial institutions, governments and state-owned entities, family and other privately held businesses, entrepreneurs and high-net-worth individuals. With offices in the United States, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Central and East Asia, Curtis is located in the key business centres where clients need the firm most.

Areas of practice: Established in the mid-1970s as one of the firm’s first European locations, the London office plays a key role in the ongoing expansion of the firm’s international practice, particularly in Africa, the Middle East, central Asia and Northern and Eastern Europe.

Curtis’ London team offers both UK and international law advice across a range of industry sectors. Its clients include multinational corporations and financial institutions, governments and state-owned companies, money managers, sovereign wealth funds and start-ups. In keeping with the firm’s international profile, the London office offers Curtis’ clients multilingual and multijurisdictional lawyers whose professional experience and international orientation make them well-positioned to handle complex and unique international legal assignments. With the office’s English law capability and experience in legal matters involving the UK, the London team directs the UK component of larger international transactions, including litigation matters in the English courts and tribunals.

The firm is well-known for representing governments and state-owned entities as clients, across oil and gas, infrastructure development and international arbitration. The London office boasts practitioners across all these fields and is also at the heart of the firm’s busy and highly regarded Public International Law practice, which works closely with the investment treaty arbitration team. Curtis has a rich insight into the unique position of sovereign states, and provides day-to-day advice for in-house legal departments as well as representing states before international tribunals.

Curtis is a market-leader in investor-state arbitration, having acted successfully for states and government-owned entities in some of the most important and complex disputes of recent times. Members of the Curtis London team work on many of the world’s high-profile international arbitrations and our practice extends to acting for clients in enforcement-related court proceedings in England.

The London team boasts a strong and growing commercial arbitration practice, with dispute experience in the oil & gas industry, construction, telecommunications, mining, agriculture, infrastructure, transportation and energy sectors.  With solicitor-advocates among our litigators, and a wealth of experience in international commercial arbitration, this is an area of practice that continues to grow, and is notable for its international orientation in comparison with other UK based disputes practices.

Our corporate and commercial team advises a wide spectrum of international and domestic corporates on the full range of corporate and commercial matters. Members of the team work closely with colleagues in other offices on the UK component of international deals.

The office has a thriving private funds group. Our lawyers advise major international banks, investment managers and firms, high-net-worth individuals and sovereign wealth funds, on the planning, structuring and formation of various complex funds. The compact team has a truly international presence and global reach, working on a daily basis with clients on five different continents.