Commercial Litigation lawyers

Priyanka Kapoor

Partner

Fieldfisher

Qi JIANG

Partner

Hylands Law Firm

Qingying Ji

Partner

Dehehantong Law Offices

Queen Ndukwe

Attorney

Offit Kurman

R Paul Steep

Litigation partner based in Toronto, with a broad commercial litigation practice that focuses on securities litigation including class actions. Has appeared before all levels of the Courts of Ontario, including the Supreme Court of Canada. Acts in major commercial disputes, including contractual disputes, all forms of securities litigation, directors’ and officers’ liability cases, banking litigation, and class actions. Regularly appears before the OSC on a variety of regulatory and enforcement matters, and acts on behalf of corporations and individuals subject to OSC investigations.

McCarthy Tétrault

R. Nicholas Felix

Attorney. With over thirty years in practice exclusively focused on litigation, Nick honed his trial skills as a prosecutor and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney while a JAG Officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, then in his current practice representing clients in litigation in State and Federal Courts. As a member of Butler Snow’s Commercial and Tort Litigation Groups, Nick represents individual and corporate clients in complex commercial and catastrophic injury cases. Nick’s commercial litigation experience includes contract, commercial and residential construction, trust and estates, employment, director and officer liability, business torts, and financial services. He has handled tort cases, including product liability, premises, liability, class actions, catastrophic injury, and wrongful death. A substantial portion of Nick’s practice is devoted to Alternative Dispute Resolution. He is a licensed and certified State and Federal arbitrator and mediator. Nick is regularly consulted by other attorneys to assist their clients in producing timely and cost-effective results to the most contentious or complex disputes. Nick has mediated over eight hundred cases, including class action, commercial/residential development, multiparty construction, consumer/corporate finance, intellectual property, personal injury, probate, domestic, professional malpractice, and commercial and residential real estate. Because of his broad experience, Nick is relied upon by Firm clients and other attorneys who turn to him for practical common-sense problem-solving in dispute resolution or aggressive effective representation in litigation.

Butler Snow LLP

RAFAEL ESCOBEDO

Partner

EC Rubio

Ra-eesa Vorajee

Ra-eesa joined Cox Yeats as an associate in the Maritime, International Trade and Insurance Department. She was admitted as an attorney in 2022 and commenced her career in commercial litigation, Insurance law, maritime claims and debt recovery. Ra-eesa has acted on behalf of insurance companies, banks, individuals and corporate entities.

Cox Yeats

Rachael Bicknell

Over the last 5 years Rachael has built a thriving commercial and civil mediation practice. She is listed in Chambers and Partners (2026) in the top 50 commercial mediators in the UK and as a Leading UK Mediator in Legal 500 (2026). She brings to her mediation practice two decades of dispute resolution expertise, including over 14 years commercial litigation experience at two of the UK’s most successful premium law firms. She specialises in commercial disputes and is routinely appointed on contractual, professional negligence, construction, real estate, insolvency, company, director, shareholder, family business, business interruption, partnership, boardroom, and inheritance and executry disputes. She mediates with corporates, insurers, private, public and third sector clients and with parties from the UK, Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, the USA, Canada and Australia. She has mediated claims with up to 6 separately represented parties and 40 participants. Rachael consistently receives excellent client feedback and has been described as “hugely skilful”, “impressive”, “incredible”, “the best mediator I’ve come across in a long time” and “my first choice of mediator”. She is renowned for her calm, assured and personable manner, her thorough preparation, and her ability to grasp complex technical issues and to quickly understand multiple issues and competing interests. Rachael is also praised for her ability to quickly build rapport and for her tenacity and resilience in helping the parties to come to a resolution, even when they remain some considerable distance apart. Rachael is a Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators (IAM), an invitation-only organisation of the world’s pre-eminent commercial mediators. She is also certified by the International Mediation Institute (IMI) and the Singapore International Mediation Institute (SIMI) and a registered civil and commercial mediator with the Civil Mediation Council (CMC) and Scottish Mediation. She is on the mediation panels for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and the Scottish Land Commission. She trained in negotiation and mediation at Harvard Law School and the Strauss Institute at the Pepperdine Caruso School of Law respectively. She is a member of the training faculty on the RICS Mediation Training Programme and until 2023 taught negotiation skills on the Online LLM in Dispute Resolution at the University of Aberdeen, a UK top-10 law school. Areas of practice include: Agriculture and rural business Boundary and access Boardroom Breach of contract and warranty claims Commercial and business Construction and engineering Corporate and shareholder Employment Energy Family business Financial services Inheritance and executry Insolvency Land and forestry Landlord and tenant Partnerships Professional negligence Real estate Sale of goods and services Telecoms

Squaring Circles

Rachael Murphy

Senior Associate, Rachael, specialises in professional negligence, property damage and insurance coverage disputes; defending professionals in the property, legal and financial services sectors.

Browne Jacobson LLP

Rachel A. Howie

Partner

Dentons

Rachel Addai

Partner and and Joint Head of J&P Credit Solutions

Judge & Priestley LLP

Rachel Fitzgerald

Rachel specialises in a wide range of property disputes with an emphasis on commercial landlord and tenant disputes and real property disputes. She advises on a broad range of contentious commercial matters, acting for both landlords and tenants in respect of claims for dilapidations, forfeiture and breach of lease covenants. She is also experienced in providing strategic advice to her clients on business tenancy lease renewal matters, the exercise of break clauses, consents to assign or underlet, rent reviews, obtaining vacant possession and tenancy insolvency issues. Rachel has a particular interest in easement and restrictive covenant disputes.

Wedlake Bell LLP

Rachel Flower

Commercial Recoveries Manager

Fieldfisher

Rachel Fritzler

Rachel Fritzler is a litigation partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Rachel has worked on a broad range of matters representing Fortune 500 companies in the areas of securities, antitrust, mergers and acquisitions, accountants’ liabilities, and commercial disputes. Her clients have included Compass, EQT Corporation, GlaxoSmithKline, Henkel, Honeywell, JELD-WEN, and United Airlines.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Rachel Goldman

Rachel Goldman is a commercial litigator with over 20 years of experience in federal and state courts, at the trial and appellate levels, and in both domestic and international arbitration proceedings. She represents clients in various sectors, including financial institutions, multi-national corporations and private equity funds. Her practice focuses on complex commercial disputes, such as breach of contract and fraud claims, securities litigation, bankruptcy litigation, construction litigation, class actions, RICO and False Claims Act litigation. Rachel's practice also includes challenges to government agencies under the Commerce, Takings and Supremacy Clauses, and First Amendment and libel actions. In addition, she is actively involved in the firm's monitorship and compliance matters. Her prior experience as both a lawyer representing the government and as in-house counsel provides a valuable perspective of client needs and objectives. Rachel is also a member of the firm’s COVID-19 Crisis and Recovery Task Force, advising clients on various issues related to the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, including matters related to the government’s stimulus loan programs.

Bracewell LLP

Rachel Herrick Kassabian

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Rachel Higgs

Head of commercial disputes team, Norwich. Specialises in complex and high value contract disputes, civil fraud, injunctive work, breach of warranty claims, partnership and shareholder disputes and claimant professional negligence, with a niche specialism in restrictive covenant/breach of confidence cases. Rachel is a qualified mediator and has extensive experience of mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution. Current cases include a £30m claim for professional negligence and a £7m claim for breach of contract.

Mills & Reeve LLP

Rachel Kavanagh

Partner, Head of the Insurance & Risk

Mason Hayes & Curran LLP

Rachel McGee

Associate Rachel is an associate working across all areas of Astraea’s commercial dispute resolution practice. Since joining the firm, Rachel has formed a key part of our asset recovery and enforcement team. She has a particular interest in international arbitration and has worked as part of the team representing foreign investors in the enforcement of an SCC arbitral award against a sovereign state. Rachel trained at Astraea, qualifying as a solicitor in 2024 through the SQE route. Rachel has a degree in Philosophy and Politics from the University of Liverpool and a Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) from BPP University.

Astraea

Rachel Mech

Principal

Offit Kurman

Rachel Shanley

Rachel is a Partner in Dispute Resolution specialising in both commercial litigation and media law. In the area of commercial litigation, Rachel acts on an on-going basis on behalf of various companies and financial institutions before the High Court, to include the Commercial Division, dealing with actions for specific performance, enforcement, breach of contract and injunctions. Rachel also regularly represents clients at mediation and arbitration. In media law, Rachel has significant expertise in defamation, privacy and also in providing pre-publication advice to clients. Rachel has also been involved in several high profile media related cases to include successfully defending a client in respect of the first injunction brought under Section 33 of the Defamation Act 2009. Rachel has expertise in reputation management acting for corporate clients in addressing issues arising from social media, disaffected employees, unhappy customers, competitors, regulatory investigations, pressure groups or sensitive litigation.

Addleshaw Goddard

Rachel Skaistis

Rachel G. Skaistis focuses her practice on advising boards of directors and management in connection with government and internal investigations, shareholder demands, derivative actions and accounting restatements. Ms. Skaistis represents clients in matters involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the False Claims Act, insider trading, accounting and securities fraud and governance issues. She also handles a wide variety of general litigation, arbitration and appellate matters, including in the areas of employment, securities, bankruptcy and general commercial disputes.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Racheli Pery-Reichman

Partner

Herzog Fox & Neeman