Each of our practice areas has a strong international focus, and more than one-third of our clients are based outside the United States. We are routinely called upon to represent multinational companies, financial institutions and funds, as well as sovereign nations, around the globe in transformative transactions and complex disputes spanning multiple practice areas. Our lawyers in our New York, London and Washington, D.C. offices bring our clients an unrivaled depth of expertise and consistently high level of service from key financial centers of the world. Cravath’s London office has one of the largest contingents of U.S. lawyers in the city, ensuring seamless coverage wherever our clients are located.
Cravath is known for the breadth and depth of its corporate and litigation experience. Our corporate lawyers advise companies, boards and executives as well as investment banks and private equity firms on a wide range of international transactions, including cross-border and U.S.-inbound mergers and acquisitions; securities offerings in the global debt and equity markets, such as high-yield bonds, IPOs, ADRs and GDRs; bank financings; and restructuring and bankruptcy matters. Our transactional work is supported by our market-leading tax, executive compensation and benefits, corporate governance, environmental and intellectual property expertise.
Cravath litigators represent clients from around the world – including Europe, Asia and the Pacific, the Middle East and Africa – in high-stakes disputes before U.S. courts and a wide variety of arbitration and dispute resolution organizations. In addition, our litigators are frequently retained to “quarterback” our clients’ global litigation strategy for matters involving complex cross-border and multijurisdictional issues. The Firm’s experience representing non-U.S. clients is extremely broad; we regularly handle antitrust advisory, regulatory clearance and numerous different types of litigation matters, as well as cutting-edge intellectual property disputes, in the global arena. In many areas our work on behalf of non-U.S. clients has been groundbreaking. For example, in the area of securities litigation, the Firm is widely recognized for handling critical and often precedent-setting cases that involve non-U.S. issuers. Our lawyers also serve as trusted advisors on investigations and difficult compliance and enforcement matters, both criminal and civil, for clients across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas.
Cravath’s arbitration experience arises from and is rooted in the Firm's litigation practice. We handle complex domestic and international arbitrations before all the principal arbitral bodies around the world, including disputes administered by the International Chamber of Commerce, the American Arbitration Association, WIPO and the London Court of International Arbitration, as well as “ad hoc” and private arbitrations. We also have arbitrated under the UNCITRAL rules and under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. In addition, our partners and retired partners from time to time are nominated by experienced litigators at other major firms to serve as arbitrators.
The Firm works to provide premier legal services to our clients worldwide. To enhance our footprint, our global network of foreign law firms is comprised of exceptional lawyers from the premier firms around the world with whom we have partnered for decades, share secondees, conduct joint training and collaborate on thought leadership. Each firm in our network provides the utmost quality of legal services and has a demonstrated commitment to achieving the same high standards that clients expect from Cravath. By working closely with preeminent law firms in a particular region, we are able to provide efficient and seamless representation of the highest caliber in each jurisdiction.
“We are a company with significant operations in all regions globally. Cravath often plays a lead, coordinating role for us and has introduced us to exceptional counsel in multiple jurisdictions from the Netherlands to China.”
–Client, Chambers Global
