Brithem LLP is a litigation boutique based in New York City founded in September 2025 and brings courtroom experience in commercial cases. The firm’s attorneys have experience in complex and novel cases spanning mass lawsuits, RICO and breach of fiduciary duty claims as well as transactional and enforcement disputes. The firm is co-led by Michael J. Bowe and Lauren Tabaksblat, both highly experienced in litigation and arbitration.

Zaiger Linden Roberti & Pepe LLC is a commercial litigation boutique founded in April 2025 by experienced attorneys from boutiques and full-service firms alike. Based in New York and Stamford, CT, the practice is led by Douglas J. Pepe and Jeffrey H. Zaiger, who are experienced in cases spanning breach of contract and duty, class actions, and malpractice cases.

Los Angeles litigation boutique Bird, Marella, Rhow, Lincenberg, Drooks, & Nessim, LLP has represented a broad range of clients in state and federal courts and arbitrations, spanning the healthcare, automotive, finance, manufacturing, and entertainment industries. The team is well-equipped to handle disputes such as commercial fraud, breach of contract, and copyright infringement. Managing partner Paul Chan leads the commercial disputes practice and has expertise in litigating FCA and RICO cases and trade secret misappropriations. Other key partners include co-chair Ekwan Rhow, who has represented major automotive companies in litigation and class actions, and Mark Drooks, who is an expert in litigating shareholder disputes and litigations arising from complex business transactions.

Eimer Stahl LLP‘s team of commercial litigators has an established presence on high-value mandates in the petrochemical, manufacturing, and infrastructure sectors. Capable as acting as both plaintiff and defense counsel on contentious commercial mandates on which the firm has recent experience span environmental lawsuits, international arbitration proceedings, and class actions discrimination cases. The firm is also active acting as lead trial and discovery counsel on governmental and political disputes relating to civil rights and executive orders, and has relationships with major national law firms in this sector. In Chicago, the practice is co-led by Scott Solberg and Brent Austin, both experienced as trial counsel and in class action disputes across a range of industries, and Nate Eimer has a track record of success in both litigation and arbitration proceedings relating to financial service disputes, product liability, insurance coverage, and antitrust law. A key name in the Madison office in Ryan Walsh, who specialises in class action defense work, and in Silicon Valley Robert Dunn is the leading name on commercial disputes.

Founded in 2024, Elsberg Baker & Maruri PLLC is an elite litigation boutique based in New York City, and the firm’s attorneys bring deep experience from leading national firms in commercial trials as well as litigation and arbitration proceedings. The group has a considerable track record of success in cases held in a range of courts nationwide including the Delaware Court of Chancery. Prominent recent clients for the firm have included controlled companies, shareholders and board members, as well as asset managers and investment funds, and the practice represents plaintiffs and defendants alike. The founding partners are David Elsberg, a highly experienced trial lawyer with a background in a range of commercial disputes spanning breach of contract and fiduciary duty claims as well as post-transactional litigation and recently acted on a high-profile real estate inheritance dispute worth over $1bn; Rollo Baker, who has experience in securities, M&A, and enforcement actions and is notably strong in trade secrets disputes; and Silpa Maruri, who is renowned by clients in the private equity and investment funds space and also has experience in class action and employment disputes.

Friedman Kaplan Seiler Adelman & Robbins LLP‘s New York-based commercial litigation practice is ‘well equipped to handle even the most complex litigation’ at the national and global scale in areas spanning financial services, technology, government, and energy, and the firm has a strong track record in the Delaware Court of Chancery. Corporate and individual clients in banking, investment, and asset management rely on the firm on cases ranging from shareholder and employment disputes, securities litigation, breach of fiduciary duty cases, and complex state-investor arbitrations. Outside of finance, the firm has led on civil antitrust proceedings in the tech sector, bankruptcy and liquidation proceedings, and on litigation with parallel international proceedings. With a depth of experience in commercial disputes, leading names are Eric Seiler, who acts on liability management litigation and derivative suits, securities litigator Edward Friedman, and Jason Rubinstein has a broad practice in big-ticket disputes. Praised as an ‘exceptionally smart, strategic, and experienced trial lawyer’, John Orsini acts in the banking and finance sector, and the ‘super bright’ and ‘really organised’ Scott Henney is also recommended.

Houston-based Gibbs & Bruns LLP is particularly prominent in commercial litigation in the energy sector, and the firm is equally skilled in jury trials, commercial settlements and arbitration proceedings, and has acted in the Texas Business Court and before an array of national courts. Other specialist areas in which the firm has experience in litigation span legal malpractice cases, where the group has established relationships with national full-service firms; banking and securities disputes for both defendants and plaintiffs; and class action suits in the technology sector. With a deep and experienced bench, the practice heads are Kathy Patrick, who has acted as lead trial counsel in antitrust class actions for claimants and defendants alike and on a range of high-value civil lawsuits, Barrett Reasoner, who leads on private client, breach of contract disputes, and malpractice claims, energy litigation specialist Michael Absmeier, and Ashley Kleber, who represents law firms, energy companies, and private clients. Firm founder Robin Gibbs also integrates his oil & gas transactional experience on major pieces of commercial litigation.

Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum LLP is praised as ‘a fantastic boutique litigation firm with excellent trial lawyers’ and integrates multidisciplinary strength in sectors including patent infringement, antitrust, data privacy, and individual arbitration to represent major national clients on high-value commercial litigation. Industries in which the practice is most accomplished in include medicine, pharmaceuticals, media and entertainment, and consumer electronics. Based in Chicago and noted for its range of ‘outstanding personalities and skills’, the practice group is led by Tarek Ismail and Alan Littmann, who is acclaimed as ‘smart and strategic’ and ‘an incredible communicator’. Ismail and Jennifer Greenblatt lead on consolidated class actions and antitrust lawsuits for clients in the construction, manufacturing, and pharma sectors, while Littman focuses on the patent infringement litigation front alongside Doug Winnard. Also of note in the practice are Shayna Cook, experienced as trial counsel in an array of national courts, and Andrew Rima, another name of note in the practice on patent infringement cases.

Based in New York, the commercial litigation practice of Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP counsels industry-leading global clients across the banking and finance, retail, manufacturing, and technology sectors as well as a range of plaintiffs on big-ticket disputes. Recent work the firm has led on includes anti-terrorism litigation in the cryptocurrency sector, trade secrets disputes, antitrust class action suits, and unjust enrichment claims, and the practice has achieved success in jury trials and in front of the Supreme Court. Across the financial services, the firm acts for banks and private equity firms, major payment service providers, insurance firms, and loan issuers, and hardware and software developers in technology are also key clients. Particularly renowned for his work in the financial sector Michael Shuster‘s trial work spans antitrust litigation, fraud cases and mortgage-backed securities disputes, while Vincent Levy‘s capabilities span major breach of contract suits, preliminary injunction challenges to federal funding decisions, and plaintiff-side class action litigation. Other leading names include Blair Kaminsky, who had acted on video and data privacy disputes, and Priyanka Timblo, experienced as lead counsel in litigation and arbitration cases.

Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton is a Florida-based litigation boutique that represents a wide range of clients as both plaintiffs and defendants in complex commercial bet-the-company litigation and disputes. The firm also handles class action and multi-district litigation (MDL), representing clients in large contingency-type business disputes. The firm’s clients range a diverse span of industries, from individuals to Fortune 500 companies. Jorge L. Piedra serves as the managing partner of the firm and focuses on bet-the-company litigation on behalf of businesses, entrepreneurs, and professionals in critical business disputes. Tal J. Lifshitz is also a key partner at the firm and represents corporate and individual clients in major commercial disputes, fraud, RICO cases, and antitrust litigation.

Headquartered in New York, MoloLamken LLP is a litigation boutique that handles complex, high-stakes disputes in all forums across the United States. The firm represents both plaintiffs and defendants in all types of commercial litigation in federal and state courts, including breach of contract, shareholder and investor rights disputes, M&A disputes, business torts, and partnership disputes. Based in New York, Steven Molo is a key partner and advocate for high-stakes complex commercial disputes. Molo has extensive experience representing corporations, boards, senior executives, funds, and investors in international commercial disputes. Also based in the New York office, Justin Ellis focuses his practice on a range of disputes, including securities, structured finance litigation, bankruptcy adjacent disputes, and antitrust. Robert Kry is based in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office and is a key litigator and appellate practitioner for commercial clients in a range of courts.

Praised for the ‘exceptional’ quality of service in disputes, Glenn Agre Bergman & Fuentes has a prominent clientele across the financial services and also acts in the construction, software, and fintech spaces on a broad range of commercial disputes, covering shareholder and partnership disputes, RICO and conspiracy lawsuits, and investment arbitrations for plaintiffs and defendants. Based in New York, the main names in the practice are Jed Bergman, who specialises in acting for clients in the private equity and investment sectors on a array of complex commercial litigation and trial mandates, Olga Lucia Fuentes Skinner, who has led in on payment, restructuring, and tax disputes, and Marissa Miller who leads on breach of fiduciary duty and recovery litigation and arbitration proceedings. Elsewhere in the practice, Trevor Welch  is a highly experienced trial lawyer and George Santiago has a diverse contentious commercial practice.

Harris St. Laurent LLP‘s New York-based commercial litigation practice is highly experienced in trial proceedings and has a workload spanning DMCA, trademark and intellectual property infringement cases, insider trading and shareholder disputes, securities fraud class action claims, as well as a range breach of contract and fiduciary duty cases. One notable recent highlight for the practice was representing the former head of Brookfield’s venture capital arm in the California state court seeking owed carried interest on canceled investments. The practice is co-led by Jonathan Harris and Yonaton Aronoff: Harris is an experienced trial lawyer in commercial litigation proceedings for investors and executives, and Aronoff has recent experience acting for corporate clients and brands in litigation and arbitration proceedings alike. Other leading names include Andrew St. Laurent, who has experience in cross-jurisdictional investment and shareholder disputes, and Evan Bolla, who has led on high-value mediation proceedings.

Hecker Fink LLP‘s ‘smart, reasonable and trustworthy’ litigation group leads on highly complicated commercial disputes spanning False Claims Act lawsuits, trade secrets misappropriation cases, and RICO and fraud claims. With a presence in New York and Washington DC, governmental bodies, major law firms and financial services groups all rely on the firm’s counsel, and the practice has also notably worked closely with a number of major professional sports leagues and organizations facing litigation. Bring deep experience in commercial litigation, Sean Hecker leads on high-value fraud, bankruptcy, and civil RICO lawsuits as well as on breach of contract and trade practice disputes, while Julie Fink has led on post-transactional litigation, employment claims, and commercial arbitrations. John Quinn is a key contact in the media, technology and entertainment sectors, Gabrielle Tenzer has acted on high-profile mandates concerning crypto trading, and Kate Doniger has experience in employment disputes.

Headquartered in Chicago, Massey & Gail LLP is a litigation boutique law firm that focuses on high-stakes complex litigation across the United States in every type of forum. The firm has extensive experience representing clients nationally in commercial disputes in federal and state trials, appeals, mediations, and arbitrations. They have specialist experience in bet-the-company litigation, including breach of contract, business tort, breach of fiduciary duty, unfair trade practices, and insurance disputes. Jonathan Massey is a key partner at the firm with extensive experience representing leading business corporations in complex litigation and dispute resolution within antitrust, bankruptcy, telecommunications, financial services, IP, and environmental law. Another key partner at the firm is Leonard Gail, who has extensive experience in trials and appeals on a variety of substantive legal areas.

Miller Barondess LLP‘s California-based disputes team represents plaintiffs and defendants in commercial, employment, and appellate litigation and can count governmental bodies, investors, and entertainment companies among its clients. Major recent cases include long-term arbitration proceedings in the banking sector, class actions cases in foster care, and harassment lawsuits. Firm founder Louis R. “Skip” Miller‘s considerable experience as a trial lawyer covers First Amendment litigation and employment disputes, and the firm has a group of focused litigation specialists: Dan S. Miller acts on copyright infringement and financial litigation; J. Mira Hashmall focuses her practice on acting for county and city governments in appellate litigation; Jason H. Tokoro has led on a number of prominent class action cases. Seasoned plaintiff-side trial lawyer Justin Ehrlich is another key name.

Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello P.C. plays a leading role on business and commercial litigation in sectors including cryptocurrency and digital asset exchange, banking and finance, insurance and consumer lending, and hospitality. In addition to its trial work the firm has advised on regulatory and criminal investigation concerning fraud and sanctions controls at an international scale, and other areas of strength include legal malpractice and civil antitrust suits. From New York, Robert Anello‘s wide experience as defense counsel spans False Claims Act litigation, employment and termination disputes, and major federal investigations, Christopher Harwood focuses on financial service disputes, particularly concerning allegations of fraud, and Karen King has acted on securities and cryptocurrency disputes. Lisa Zornberg joined the practice from a governmental role in March 2025 and has led on a range of litigation and arbitration proceedings in hospitality and professional sports.

Reid Collins & Tsai LLP has and extremely broad commercial disputes offering and is particularly strong in litigation in connection to restructuring and bankruptcy proceedings where the firm acts for trustees, estates, and investors in an array of complex cases. The firm also advices on investigations relating to breach of fiduciary duty cases, allegations of fraud, and civil rights lawsuits, and has notable clients in finance, commerce, and insurance. With deep practice praised as ‘very smart, very experienced, and tremendously hard working’, the leading names in Austin are William T. Reid , a former federal prosecutor and experienced trial lawyer with a track record of success in recovery cases, derivatives suits, and securities litigation, and Lisa Tsai, who has acted in contractual disputes against major commercial lenders. In Dallas, the ‘tenacious litigator‘ Eric Madden is a key contact and has led on disputes between bankrupt companies and former executives.

Headquartered in New York, Sher Tremonte represents publicly traded companies, private entities, and family offices in complex commercial disputes and litigation. The firm is experienced in numerous business disputes, including contract disputes, M&A litigation, trade secret litigation, real estate disputes, and investor and partnership disputes. Justin Sher is a co-founder of the firm and has built a commercial disputes practice where he represents national and international companies in high-stakes litigation. These matters include complex contracts, earnouts, shareholder and founder disputes, and business torts. Michael Tremonte is the other co-founder of the firm and has extensive experience representing companies, family offices, and entrepreneurs in high-value contract, fraud, and business tort cases, including disputes arising out of financing arrangements, investment structures, and post-mergers.

Boston litigation boutique Todd & Weld has extensive experience handling a range of commercial disputes, including breach of contract and fiduciary duty, antitrust, franchise, and shareholder disputes, with clientele ranging from family-owned businesses to Fortune 50 companies across the finance, life sciences, real estate, and insurance industries. Key members of the team include Howard Cooper, who represents healthcare, religious, retail, and education clients in high-profile matters in state and federal courts; Nicholas Carter , who is an expert in complex business, employment, fraud, defamation, and real estate disputes; and Joseph Cacace who has experience litigating shareholder disputes, contract claims, and trade secret misappropriation cases.

With an established presence on some of the largest disputes in the oil and gas sectors, Yetter Coleman LLP‘s Houston-based commercial litigation practice is also active for large clients in the technology, financial services, and utilities sectors. In the energy field, the firm leads in court on patent infringement and antitrust claim defense, environmental litigation, and market manipulation suits for some of the sector’s largest clients. In other areas, the firm has acted in finance in disputes against state attorneys general and has advised on federal enforcement actions, and in tech the group has led in partnership and investment litigation. The group is steered by the efforts of Paul Yetter and Tracy LeRoy , who is praised for her ‘excellent judgement’: Yetter’s experience covers antitrust as well as trademark and business tort disputes, with recent success in the aviation industry, while LeRoy has led on multijurisdictional litigation and on international arbitration proceedings.

Bast Amron LLP is a Florida-based litigation boutique that focuses on insolvency litigation, complex commercial litigation, and partnership disputes. The firm represents individuals, private companies, and public corporations in federal, state, and bankruptcy courts across the US. Brett Amron is the founder of the firm and advises a range of clients in complex business litigation, including breach of fiduciary duty, shareholder disputes, breach of contract, and more.

With offices in San Francisco and New York, BraunHagey & Borden LLP is a boutique litigation law firm with a sophisticated bi-coastal commercial disputes practice. The firm’s attorneys have extensive experience representing clients in bet-the-company business disputes in a wide variety of areas, including antitrust, IP, false advertising, financial fraud, trade secrets, unfair competition, real estate, and digital assets. The firm represents clients in all industries within litigation, arbitration, and appeals. Based in the San Francisco office, Noah Hagey is the co-founder and managing partner of the firm. Hagey’s practice focuses on representing businesses, entrepreneurs, and investors in high-stakes commercial disputes involving antitrust, IP, class action defense, finance, fraud, trade secrets, and more. Also in San Francisco, Adam Cashman specializes in representing clients as both plaintiffs and defendants in complex commercial and intellectual property disputes.

Midwest-based firm, headquartered in St. Louis, Brown & James represents corporations and insurers in complex commercial disputes and litigation. The firm has extensive experience handling a range of business disputes, including breach of contract, employment disputes, tortious interference, intellectual property disputes, and consumer fraud. Steven Schwartz is a key principal at the firm and handles a wide range of commercial disputes, including breach of contract, fraud, RICO, business torts, antitrust, and breach of fiduciary duty. Schwartz also has experience in multi-party disputes and multi-district litigation.

Dewey Pegno & Kramarsky LLP is a New York litigation boutique with a reputation for representing sophisticated clients, including those in the banking, private equity, real estate, and insurance spaces, in complex commercial disputes in state and federal courts, as well as in arbitration. The team handles disputes spanning from breach of contract and fiduciary duty to commercial leasing and wrongful termination. The firm was founded by Thomas Dewey, who specializes in representing financial services and real estate clients; David Pegno, who has extensive experience in representing clients in AAA, JAMS, and FINRA arbitrations; and Stephen Kramarsky, who focuses on litigating technology, financial, intellectual property, and employment disputes.

Kaplan LLP‘s varied commercial disputes offering synthesises expertise in constitutional and civil rights, intellectual property and data protection regulations, and financial services litigation as well as on related criminal law in related civil proceedings. The New York-centred firm has acted on high-profile civil cases, environmental lawsuits related to municipal infrastructure, as well as termination, employment, and legal malpractice disputes. Roberta Kaplan is an experienced trial lawyer who has led on a wide range of litigation and arbitration proceedings, with a particular focus on public interest and discrimination cases, and Timothy Martin is a leading name on breach of contract and termination disputes. Ellen Holloman joined the firm from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP in June 2025, who brings a background in corporate governance counsel to restructuring and employment disputes.

Based in Irvine, Keller Anderle Scolnick LLP‘s ‘extremely collaborative and diverse’ commercial litigation department has led on a range of litigation, for corporate clients on antitrust and class action cases, and on disputes for public companies against activist campaigns. Tenancy and post-transactional disputes in real estate is a notable area of expertise for the firm. With a broad commercial litigation background praised as ‘exceptional, well-reasoned and sound’, Jennifer Keller acts on commercial class actions as well legal malpractice, breach of contract, and constitutional right disputes, and former federal defender Chase Scolnick leads on intellectual property and patent litigation. White-collar and investigations specialist Gregory Bernstein has led on a range of disputes in the energy sector, and Benjamin Barron is another key trial lawyer in the practice.

Perry Law has considerable capabilities in commercial disputes, and the firm acts across the finance and investment, healthcare, and media and entertainment sectors on class action antitrust suits, partnership and ownership disputes, and breach of contract arbitrations. E. Danya Perry leads the group’s efforts and her broad capabilities span purchase agreement litigation and partnership disputes relating to accusations of embezzlement and fraud, and commercial arbitration. Former state Solicitor General Joshua Perry brings wide experience acting in trial and appellate cases, and the practice gained commercial litigators Marc Silverman, a former federal prosecutor, in June 2025, Donald Reinhard, who joined the firm from Kasowitz LLP in August 2025, and former US federal attorney Elizabeth Tulis, who joined in September 2025, both bringing strength in depth in commercial litigation. All mentioned attorneys based in New York.

Acclaimed as ‘top-notch not just in intelligence, but in trial skill’, Dallas-based Reese Marketos LLP acts as lead counsel on jury trials in the healthcare and pharma, oil and gas, and technology sectors, and has recently achieve prominent successes in cases pertaining to the False Claims Act, patent infringement, and fraud claims. Additionally, the firm has acted in related arbitrations in healthcare, and is experienced in trial before the Delaware Court of Chancery. Firm heads Pete Marketos and Joel Reese have a record of success across the country in partnership disputes, fraud cases, and breach of contract suits. Also recommended are Adam Sanderson, who focuses on IP disputes in the broadcasting and telecommunications sector, and Andrew Wirmani, a specialist on fraud cases for clients in healthcare and pharmaceuticals.

Headquartered in New York City, Walden Macht Haran & Williams LLP  handles complex commercial disputes for its clients involved in media and entertainment, antitrust, contract, fraud, and real estate litigation. Their client base is largely industry agnostic; they have extensive experience representing financial services, media, communications, and healthcare companies in business disputes in both state and federal courts. Milton L. Williams is a key partner at the firm. Williams has extensive experience in representing clients in complex commercial litigation as well as advising them on regulatory matters. Avni P. Patel is also a key partner with experience in commercial and employment litigation.

Wollmuth Maher & Deutsch LLP leverages strengths in securities litigation, consumer protection class actions, and bankruptcy and fraud disputes to lead on a wide array of high-value commercial matters, with many international clients in manufacturing, finance, and real estate. Working in New York, the firm has recently led on cybercrime and data protection matters, mortgage-backed securities disputes, and contract enforcement litigation. With a deep team of lawyers including former federal prosecutors, international litigation and arbitration specialists, the practice is led by David Wollmuth , who has acted for financial service groups as well as investors and plaintiffs in post-transactional and trade secret misappropriation disputes, and securities litigator William Maher. Elsewhere, Joshua Slocum acts on employment and compensation cases as well as on shareholder disputes.

Alto Litigation‘s San Francisco-based team is noted for its ‘experience, strategic vision, and quality in practice’ on commercial disputes, with clients across healthcare, real estate, and financial services. Contentious mandates for the firm span trade secrets disputes, government regulatory investigations, and settlement agreements. Acclaimed as ‘one of the finest lawyers in the Bay Area for strategic matters’, Bahram Seyedin-Noor represents technology and logistics companies as well as fund managers and investment advisors in commercial litigation and arbitration proceedings, and has also acted on probate cases. Bryan Ketroser has been praised for his ’empathy and sharp legal insight’ and brings experience in securities litigation to trade secrets disputes and in venture capital litigation, and Joshua Korr has led on IP and probate litigation.

With a commercial disputes practice labelled as ‘incredibly smart, practical, knowledgeable of the law and professional’, Barakat + Bossa PLLC‘s work spans product liability, trademark infringement and copyright disputes, cases in media following allegations of defamation, and RICO conspiracy and breaches of fiduciary duty cases. A ‘great leader’, Brian Barakat heads the group and is an experienced attorney in a range of business disputes, and he is joined by Giacomo Bossa who brings a background in real estate work to commercial litigation and arbitrations, and Jocelyne Macelloni who is active in the construction sector. All attorneys are based in Coral Gables.

Brewer, Attorneys & Counselors is praised for its ‘vast and varied experience’ in commercial disputes and the firm places particular focus on litigation relating to civil rights liberties and matters of political interest. The group is also accomplished in the healthcare, media, and hospitality sectors. With decades of experience as a trial lawyer in commercial litigation and community impact cases, the firm is led by the ‘irreplaceable’ William A. Brewer III, based in both New York and Dallas. Elsewhere in the practice, Dallas’ Josh Harris integrates his background in corporate and transactional mandates to act on disputes in the financial sector, and William A. Brewer IV has a broad litigation practice in New York.

DTO Law brings a ‘depth of knowledge and experience in litigation’ to commercial disputes for clients in the automotive, consumer goods and retail, and manufacturing sectors, with a particular strength in patent, trademark, and false advertising disputes, which includes a number of major class actions concerning consumer protection. Los Angeles’ William Delgado, praised by one client for his ‘excellent legal analysis, strong writing, and practical business minded approach’, is highly regarded by national industry-leading companies for his class action and intellectual property expertise. Megan O’Neill splits her time between Silicon Valley and LA and specialises acting on class action litigation in the health, nutrition and wellness sectors. Patent lawyer Ellen Yang joined the firm from an in-house role in May 2025.

Chicago litigation boutique Goodman Law Group is well-versed in handling commercial and complex contract matters, specializing in representing businesses in insurance coverage disputes. The team’s clientele spans public and privately held companies, as well as individuals in the food, manufacturing, and real estate industries. The firm’s founder, David Goodman, has achieved significant outcomes for contractors, manufacturing, and construction clients in insurance coverage disputes, as well as business divorce, indemnification, trade secrets, and contract disputes. Kalli Nies, another key member of the team, has extensive trial experience specializing in builders’ risk coverage, insurance coverage, and privacy issue litigations.

Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney, LLP‘s ‘extremely knowledgeable team of disputes specialists’ is active in New York in the infrastructure, transportation, and real estate sectors. Breach of contract disputes, civil RICO claims, and insurance coverage cases are among the matters in which the firm is particularly busy, and a number of prominent federal and city transit authorities rely on the firm on constitutional civil rights suits and class actions. On the discrimination and civil rights suits side of the practice, the leading names are Ira Lipton and Helene Hechtkopf, while John Curley leads on disputes in the investment, commerce, and real estate sectors, and Bradley Nash is another leading name for plaintiffs on financial and post-transactional litigation.

Krantz & Berman LLP is a New York-based litigation boutique that represents public companies, private entities, and individuals in complex business disputes within the insurance, banking, art, real estate, manufacturing, law, and finance sectors. The team has extensive experience handling a range of commercial disputes, including breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, business tort, unfair competition, trade secrets, shareholder disputes, and insurance disputes. Larry Krantz and Marjorie E. Berman are the founding partners of the firm, and both have extensive experience representing clients in complex commercial litigation and appeals.

Lankler Siffert & Wohl LLP has an established presence in the white-collar crime space for clients in banking, investment management, real estate and manufacturing, with a strong track record acting directors, officers, and shareholders of public companies in regulatory and criminal investigations as well as in enforcement orders and commercial litigation and arbitration proceedings. With a group of ‘skilled trial lawyers able to handle a wide range of matters’, the New York-based practice is helmed by Matthew Coogan, Doug Maynard, and Charles Spada. Coogan  leads in enforcement action defenses, consumer fraud and trade secrets litigation, and unjust enrichment cases, Maynard has led in criminal investigations and is retained as litigation counsel, and Spada specialises acting for CEOs in federal lawsuits and commercial litigation.

León Cosgrove Jiménez, LLP acts on multijurisdictional pieces of commercial litigation, spanning state-investor disputes, white-collar crime investigations in finance, and shareholder and partnership litigation. The firm is notably active representing cross-border clients active across a range of sectors in Latin America, including banking, manufacturing, and energy, on contractual disputes, trade secret misappropriation cases, consumer protection class actions, and international arbitrations. In Miami, Derek León has acted for both defendants and plaintiffs in post-transactional, liquidation, and insurance coverage disputes, and Scott Cosgrove has represented both investors and federal governments in commercial litigation. Other key names in the practice on confidential mandates include Miami’s Andrew Zaron and Houston’s Christina Maccio.

MBSSmartLaw Houston-based practice has been noted for its ‘high quality, timely legal services’ on commercial disputes, particularly in the oil and gas sector, where the firm has led on post-acquisitional litigation, breach of contract and duty disputes, and tax and copyright infringement disputes. Manufacturing, real estate, and pharmaceuticals are other areas in which the firm also has a significant presence. Garland Murphy specialises in service and liability disputes in the energy sector, and Lee Kaplan is notable for his work in intellectual property cases. The ‘outstanding’ Richard Houghton  leads on employment and fraud cases, and the firm’s capabilities were strengthened by the arrival of litigator Eugene Zilberman, who joined the practice from Steptoe LLP in July 2025.

Seiden Law LLP leads on joint ventures disputes, derivative and shareholder litigation, and employment cases for a domestic and international clientele in banking, fintech and telecoms, and is noted for its planitff-side work in trials. With multijurisdictional capabilities in litigation, recent highlights for the firm have included anti-terrorism litigation in the cryptocurrency space and a number of state-investor disputes. A ‘smart, dedicated lawyer’, New York’s Robert Seiden acts on international litigation and enforcement mandates including asset recoveries, while Amiad Kushner‘s broad disputes workload covers derivative actions, regulatory and licensing disputes, and civil RICO cases, areas where Michael Stopler is also a prominent name.

Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell LLP is a Colorado-based litigation and trial boutique law firm with a national commercial disputes practice. The firm has extensive experience representing companies, entrepreneurs, developers, investors, and other individuals in a range of industries within business litigation and dispute resolution. The firm has expertise in resolving a range of commercial disputes, including contract disputes, fraud, warranty disputes, securities disputes, trade secrets, antitrust, insurance disputes, and more. Katie A. Reilly serves as the firm president and focuses her practice on representing corporate and individual clients in antitrust, class actions, and commercial litigation matters. Frederick R. Yarger has expertise in representing clients in high-stakes appeals and complex litigation nationwide, seeking to resolve clients’ commercial disputes.

Yankwitt LLP ‘excels at handling complex commercial litigation’ for a client base in the investment, life sciences, and nonprofit sectors, and specializes in jury trials concerning allegations of breach of contract and fiduciary duty, as well as unjust enrichment and partnership disputes. Based out of White Plains, founder and managing partner Russell Yankwitt leads the firm in this area and has a broad remit of work including financial, inheritance, and liability disputes, and is also capable overseeing internal investigations into corporate wrongdoing. Also in the practice are Michael Reed, who specialises in employment disputes, and Cassandra Vogel, who has acted on large contentious mandates in the biotechnology sector.