Pallas Partners LLP

Pallas Partners is an elite litigation and disputes boutique of court-sharp trial lawyers focused on delivering phenomenal results, challenging traditional notions and placing its clients' interests at the forefront of everything it does. The firm leverages bold, winning strategies that drive value and mitigate risk. Defining a new blueprint of client experience, Pallas' highly-tailored and meticulous approach is driven by results and grounded by integrity – led by an accomplished team of lawyers with a laser-like focus on litigation, arbitration and investigations.

Main Areas of Practice

Litigation 

Based in London and New York, Pallas’ lawyers litigate the most complex and novel disputes across all sectors and practice areas. The firm's court-sharp trial lawyers and advocates bring cases to trial before the English, US federal and state, and international Courts. Blending technical excellence and strategic awareness, the firm uses litigation to drive value and successful outcomes for clients. Pallas has particularly deep experience in financial disputes, as well as commercial litigation, contentious restructurings and insolvencies, private equity disputes and fraud / white-collar adjacent disputes.

Investigations 

When clients are faced with complex criminal and regulatory issues, they turn to Pallas for speedy, effective assistance. The firm conducts internal investigations, regulatory investigations and white collar defence, with a particular focus on financial crime, corruption, conduct, privacy, culture and ESG-related issues. Clients’ reputations are their most important asset, and Pallas acts to ensure those are protected in any investigation or defence – and that issues are resolved quickly. The partners leading the team have extensive experience, from the world’s largest corruption investigations, regulatory investigations with the FCA, PRA, and other global regulators to sensitive whistleblowing and internal investigations, to criminal defence before the SFO, DOJ and prosecutors around the world.

Arbitration 

The firm acts as counsel in complex, high value, strategically significant commercial and investment arbitrations, across a broad spectrum of industries. Our arbitration lawyers have deep experience handling arbitrations under all major institutional rules, in all of the world’s major arbitral centres. The firm maintains a complete focus on achieving its clients’ commercial objectives through arbitration. The firm builds arbitration strategies around the merits of the case, but also the environment for enforcement and recovery. Pallas' experience spans the entire lifespan of an arbitration, including discovery actions, challenges to arbitrators, set aside of awards and multi-jurisdictional enforcement. Pallas has acted in some of the most important arbitration related litigation in the English and DIFC Courts. The team has received widespread recognition for its high quality advocacy and “impressive innovative thinking” and is proud to be described as “very committed to a result”.

Responsibility and Sustainability 

Embedded in the firm is an ambitious responsibility and sustainability strategy to drive positive change throughout the industry. In everything Pallas does, the firm challenges the status quo; when it comes to environmental and societal impacts, the firm believes its strategic approach is a blueprint for the firm of the future. Driven by our purpose, vision and values, we focus on delivering positive change across the environment, community and people agenda.

Offices

London and New York.