Leader
Lucrative, dependable business as usual
Foreword by Stewarts
Period of upheaval set to continue
Market profile
Sidley Austin
Gender diversity debate
Quantum of equality
LB assembled a group of litigators to chart the progress of women at the highest levels of disputes
Litigation market briefings
Stewarts: My Litigation Crystal Ball
Travers Smith: Excessive litigation – how can it be discouraged and stopped?
Singh & Associates: The road to litigation
Gilbert + Tobin: Hayne, ASIC, banks, penalties and the price of shifting risk
Market profile Gilbert + Tobin
Hardwicke: The full-frontal approach
Wilberforce Chambers: When is a secret commission secret? A primer on Medsted v Canaccord Genuity
Brown Rudnick: Tech-driven review vs the fear of missing out
The leading disputes teams
Bench strengths – Sizing up the City’s top dispute teams
We size up a group of the largest disputes players in the City to assess how they are faring amid an increasingly competitive market
White-collar crime market report
With DPAs proving a success and investigations increasing in scale, things have never been busier for corporate crime firms
White-collar crime market briefing
Stewarts: Financial crime and criminal prosecutions in the UK
Market profile
Ashfords
Bribery market briefing
Wilberforce Chambers: Administrators’ conflicts of interest – 2018’s hot potato?
Jurisdictions
Global disputes hubs jostle for position – Where in the world?
London may be the top global disputes hub but for how much longer? We look at the contenders jostling to host the world’s biggest conflicts
Arbitration briefing
The International Arbitration Centre: The world-class disputes space the City’s been waiting for
Finance market briefings
White & Case: Enforcement reimagined
Singh & Associates: Financial litigation in India – An analysis of recent developments in insolvency law
Technology market briefing
Milbank: Technology disputes – A perfect storm of complex technical, legal and business issues
Arbitration market briefings
MoloLamken: The coming of age of arbitration in Africa
Benoit Chambers: The Mauritius International Arbitration Act – A decade on
Walch & Schurti: A new ADR instrument for conflicts between beneficiaries and professional fiduciaries
King & Spalding: Insight – The arbitration market
Market profile JMiles & Co
Perspectives
Sir David Green QC, Slaughter and May
Jolyon Maugham QC, Devereux Chambers
Tax litigation market report
Pressure to crack down on evasion and Bribery Act-style powers are pushing tax disputes onto boardroom agendas
Market briefing
Simmons & Simmons: The taxman cometh – What GCs need to know
Market profile
Simmons & Simmons
Competition litigation market report
With the trickle of follow-on claims threatening to become a flood, how are firms preparing for battle?
Competition market briefing
Baker McKenzie: The future of competition and consumer litigation – a brave new world?
IP disputes market report
Despite Brexit uncertainty with the launch of Europe’s central patent court, there is plenty for IP litigators to get their teeth into
IP market briefing
CMS UK: UK courts – Open for business
Employment market report
We assess how the #MeToo movement will influence employment litigation in 2019
Employment market briefing
Allen & Overy: Horizon scan to the workplace of the future
Mediation market report
Twenty years since the Woolf Reforms, we assess mediation’s slow but steady march to the disputes mainstream
Mediation market briefing
Independent Mediators: Mediation goes mainstream
Market profile
Independent Mediators