Pallas Partners stands out as a premier litigation and disputes boutique, distinguished by its team of court-savvy trial lawyers. This firm prioritizes achieving exceptional results, challenging conventional legal approaches, and ensuring client interests are paramount in every action. Pallas Partners employs bold, winning strategies designed to maximize value and minimize risk for their clients. Redefining the client experience, their highly personalized and meticulous methodology is both results-driven and ethically grounded. The firm is spearheaded by a team of accomplished legal professionals with a concentrated focus on litigation, arbitration, and investigations.
Core Practice Areas
Litigation
Operating from key locations in London and New York, Pallas Partners’ litigation team handles the most intricate and novel disputes across a wide array of sectors and practice areas. Their lawyers are seasoned trial experts, adept at presenting cases before English, U.S. federal and state, and international courts. By integrating deep technical knowledge with strategic insight, Pallas Partners leverages litigation to generate tangible value and secure successful outcomes for their clientele. The firm possesses particularly robust experience in financial disputes, alongside commercial litigation, complex restructurings and insolvencies, private equity disputes, and disputes related to fraud and white-collar crime.
Investigations
Clients facing complex criminal and regulatory challenges rely on Pallas Partners for prompt and effective support. The firm excels in conducting internal investigations, managing regulatory inquiries, and providing white-collar defense, with a specific emphasis on financial crime, corruption, conduct, privacy, culture, and ESG-related matters. Recognizing that client reputation is a critical asset, Pallas Partners is committed to protecting this reputation throughout any investigation or defense process, striving for swift resolution of issues. The partners leading the investigations team bring extensive experience from significant global corruption investigations and regulatory engagements with bodies such as the FCA, PRA, and other international regulators. Their expertise extends to handling sensitive whistleblowing cases, internal investigations, and criminal defense before the SFO, DOJ, and prosecuting authorities worldwide.
Arbitration
Pallas Partners serves as counsel in high-stakes, strategically vital commercial and investment arbitrations across diverse industries. Their arbitration lawyers are highly experienced in proceedings under all major institutional rules and across the world’s leading arbitration centers. The firm maintains a sharp focus on achieving clients’ commercial objectives through arbitration, developing strategies that consider not only the merits of the case but also the landscape for enforcement and recovery. Pallas Partners’ capabilities span the entire arbitration lifecycle, including discovery actions, challenges to arbitrators, award annulments, and multi-jurisdictional enforcement. The firm has been involved in some of the most significant arbitration-related litigation in the English and DIFC Courts. The team is widely recognized for its exceptional advocacy and “impressive innovative thinking,” earning accolades as “very committed to a result.”
Commitment to Responsibility and Sustainability
Pallas Partners integrates an ambitious responsibility and sustainability strategy into its core operations, aiming to foster positive change within the legal industry. The firm consistently challenges the status quo in all its endeavors, and regarding environmental and societal impacts, Pallas Partners believes its strategic approach sets a benchmark for the law firm of the future. Guided by purpose, vision, and values, they are dedicated to driving positive change across environmental, community, and people-focused initiatives.
Office Locations
London and New York.
