Practice Areas

Where law meets geopolitics, our strategic advisory counsel has been sought by sovereigns to act creatively and with agility to protect and advance national interests. We advise political leaders and top national officials, devising and implementing strategies that complement state efforts towards the defense and promotion of sovereign interests in a broad range of fora internationally.

Frontier markets offer some of the greatest rewards, but also some of the highest risks when public authorities abuse criminal law enforcement powers, or employ tax or regulatory pretexts, to attack entrepreneurs and investors. Forced corporate restructurings, bankruptcies, expropriations and nationalizations in these markets have multi-jurisdictional implications. We devise and implement strategies to protect assets and people worldwide, create leverage for our clients, resolve disputes and hold public authorities to account domestically and abroad.

We act against perpetrators of human rights abuses and have prevailed in landmark cases we have fought on behalf of victims. We engage with a broad range of international human rights protection mechanisms in response to arbitrary detention, torture, judicial corruption, and abuses of international legal cooperation in civil, commercial and criminal matters. We have accompanied clients to obtain international asylum protection in countries around the world.

We provide our clients tireless, innovative and rigorous advice on criminal defense. We are often engaged at the cutting edge of the law, in cases of international significance involving matters as diverse as cryptocurrencies, encryption, and international tax and securities law. In multijurisdictional cases we partner with leading criminal defense counsel worldwide. We are extradition experts and have successfully quashed abusive INTERPOL Red Notices. We assist clients with sanctions compliance and sanctions-related advocacy.

We deliver effective arbitration and litigation solutions across diverse global markets, particularly in complex cases where our strategic insights and out-of-the-box thinking have made the difference. We advise on the development and implementation of coordinated multi-jurisdictional strategies, keeping track of a multitude of moving parts and accelerating prospects of success for our clients.

In the globally connected world, the negative impacts of misinformation on our clients’ interests can be acute. Our services are frequently sought to provide immediate or ongoing assistance for reputation management through traditional and social media, engagement with purveyors of information databases, financial institutions and regulators, as well as through defamation actions.