Commercial Litigation lawyers
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Stephen Tountas
Commercial Litigation; Plaintiffs' Litigation; Securities Litigation
Kasowitz LLP
Stephen VanDerhoef
Senior Litigation Partner
Cairncross & Hempelmann
Stephen Younger
Senior Counsel
Withers
Stephen Zimula
Stephen Zimula is a partner the in the Dispute Resolution Team. He specialises in high‑value and complex commercial litigation in matters involving debt recovery, real estate, and tax. His experience includes recovering multimillion‑dollar sums for top commercial banks—often through the High Court, Court of Appeal, and Supreme Court—and successfully defending institutions against large claims intended to frustrate recovery efforts. He has represented prominent real estate companies and high‑net‑worth investors in tax disputes before the Tax Appeals Tribunal, securing the withdrawal or reversal of substantial assessments. Stephen routinely advises on property acquisitions, condominium developments, and due‑diligence processes in land acquisitions.
MMAKS Advocates
Sterling Marchand
Partner
Baker Botts L.L.P.
Steve Allen
Steve heads the Birmingham office of Mills & Reeve LLP. He has extensive experience in dealing with all forms of commercial disputes particularly commercial contract, product liability, breach of warranty and shareholder disputes. He has a particular interest in the automotive, energy, food and IT sectors. In addition to extensive experience in conducting international arbitration disputes, Steve has dealt with disputes in the Commercial Court, the Technology and Construction Court and the Court of Appeal. Steve has also been involved in the settlement of several complex disputes through mediation and other forms of ADR. Steve is the current President of the Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce and the winner of the Midlands Leadership in Professional Services Award 2018. He is a former recipient of the International Solicitor of the Year Award from the Birmingham Law Society and is a past President of the New York based British American Business Council. Steve appears in the Birmingham Post’s Power 250 list of the Midlands’ most influential people and is a Visiting Fellow of International Law at Aston University in Birmingham.
Mills & Reeve LLP
Steve Beahan
Partner Experienced commercial dispute resolution lawyer. Since June 2011 has headed the commercial litigation department in Sheffield of 25+ lawyers. The department handles over 2,000 claims per year. Deals with most aspects of commercial and property litigation including professional negligence. Experience of High and County Court matters and a keen advocate of ADR having dealt with numerous mediations. Recent appearance in the Court Appeal included the reported case of Brown-Quinn and Webster Dixon LLP v Equity Syndicate Management Limited. In addition to traditional commercial litigation work, Steven and his team are panel solicitors for a number of well-known insurers dealing with disputes for individuals, businesses and charities who have the benefit of a legal expense insurance policy. Leading commentator on legal issues facing SME’s and jointly responsible of for the identification and development of new legal product offerings to SME community for the business legal services division. In recent years has developed bespoke innovative litigation funding solutions for commercial clients.
Irwin Mitchell
Steven Blonder
Principal, Management Committee Member, Much Community Chair
Much Shelist, P.C.
Steven Cherry
Partner
WilmerHale
Steven Cowley
Partner
Duane Morris LLP
Steven Engel
Partner
Dechert
Steven J. Fineman
Steven Fineman, director and assistant general counsel of Richards, Layton & Finger, focuses his practice on intellectual property and commercial litigation. Steve has experience litigating complex disputes in all of Delaware’s state and federal courts, including appeals to the Delaware Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He has substantial experience in Hatch-Waxman litigation. His clients have included large pharmaceutical companies as well as technology and communications companies. Steve co-authored a chapter in ANDA Litigation: Strategies and Tactics for Pharmaceutical Patent Litigators. PRACTICES Intellectual Property Commercial Litigation
Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A.
Steven M. Malina
Shareholder
Greenberg Traurig
Steven Murray
Head of Contentious IP
HCR Law
Steven Raffaele
Partner
Holland & Knight
Steven Silverberg
Steven M. Silverberg is a seasoned litigator and first-chair trial attorney with a focus on matters in federal courts. He routinely litigates employment actions and complex commercial and business disputes on behalf of clients in the media, hospitality, healthcare, and financial services industries, as well as municipal entities, transportation authorities, and law enforcement agencies. Steve has a breadth of experience handling high-value and high-profile impact litigation and frequently represents prominent public figures and institutions, including public sector clients, in cases that receive national media attention. He zealously executes litigation strategies that simultaneously achieve positive results in the courtroom and favorably portray his clients in the press. At the same time, Steve appreciates the importance of negotiated resolutions where possible and has settled more than 200 matters in advance of trial. A leading voice on civil rights and Fourth Amendment litigation, Steve has defended public officials in hundreds of federal cases involving wrongful arrest, excessive force, overturned conviction, and other high-stakes claims—often where government policies and practices themselves are on trial. His experience, along with bylines in the New York Law Journal and Bloomberg Law and his teaching at Rutgers University, has established him as a trusted authority on litigation and strategy in this field.
Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney, LLP
Steven Skiba
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau LLP
Steven Zalesin
Steve Zalesin is a nationally renowned trial lawyer with extensive experience in advertising litigation, intellectual property, and complex commercial matters. He has successfully tried cases and argued appeals in numerous courts throughout the United States. For more than 30 years, Mr. Zalesin has represented the nation’s leading consumer products companies in a series of precedent-setting cases that have shaped the landscape of advertising litigation, while helping to preserve and grow the markets for our clients’ products. Among other noteworthy victories, he has won dismissal of several high-profile “greenwashing” cases, in which our clients were accused of misrepresenting the environmental impact of their operations. In addition, he has successfully defended multiple clients in putative class actions that alleged that their products contained dangerous contaminants. Mr. Zalesin is currently defending major beverage, consumer healthcare, and confectionary companies in litigation over their product labeling and advertising. Earlier this year, Mr. Zalesin achieved a significant victory for a major pharmaceutical company in a Lanham Act suit brought by a competitor over a study comparing the efficacy of the parties’ prostate cancer medications. The court ruled that the study, which found that our client’s medication is associated with a 51% reduction of overall risk of death compared to the competitor’s drug, employed “reliable” and “widely-accepted” scientific methods and data sources. The court therefore denied the requested injunction. Mr. Zalesin was named “Litigator of the Week” by The American Lawyer for his work on the case (April 24, 2026). The prior month, he obtained summary judgment dismissing a public nuisance suit on behalf of the world’s leading beverage company, for which he was featured in The American Lawyer’s “Litigator of the Week” column (March 20, 2026). Mr. Zalesin is also known for having secured a federal jury verdict in a landmark dispute over juice labeling. He initially obtained summary judgment dismissing the claims against our client, and successfully defended that ruling before the Ninth Circuit. The U.S. Supreme Court then vacated the Ninth Circuit’s decision and remanded the case for trial. The Los Angeles jury rejected the competitor’s claims in full, returning a verdict in our client’s favor after a six-day trial and less than a day of deliberation. As a result, Mr. Zalesin was named “Litigator of the Week” by The American Lawyer (March 24, 2016). Mr. Zalesin also maintains an active pro bono practice. In 2020, he obtained a noteworthy dismissal of a class action complaint that targeted a leading online petitioning platform and its efforts to promote racial justice following the murder of George Floyd.
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
Stewart Epstein
Principal
Offit Kurman
Stewart Morrison
Legal Director.
HCR Law
Stuart Armstrong
Initially specialising in subrogated cargo recoveries before broadening his areas of practice to include all types of logistics and commodity trade disputes, Stuart qualified as a solicitor in 1983. He joined the firm in 2001 and heads our London cargo and logistics team. Stuart's expertise lies in marine, air and road cargo claims and related marine cargo insurance and freight liability insurance disputes and his caseload now encompasses: Charterparties Bills of lading CMR and domestic road haulage Warsaw and Montreal conventions GAFTA/FOSFA contracts The Institute Cargo Clauses With experience in admiralty and commercial court cases, London arbitration and mediation, Stuart's focus is on dispute resolution in a quick and cost-effective manner.
Hill Dickinson LLP
Stuart Clubb
Stuart is an experienced commercial litigator and leads the dispute resolution team in Edinburgh. He specialises in the resolution of commercial disputes, with significant expertise in corporate, contractual, insolvency and property related disputes. Stuart is also a Solicitor Advocate with rights of audience in the Court of Session and the Supreme Court and has considerable experience acting for and appearing on behalf of clients in the Court of Session, the Sheriff Court, the Land Court and the Lands Tribunal. Stuart also regularly advises insolvency practitioners, companies and directors on all aspects of insolvency law and has acted on a number of high profile insolvency cases. In November 2015, Stuart delivered the legal update presentation for the fifth year running at the leading Scottish insolvency conference run by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. His recent experience includes: Acting on behalf of liquidators in an application to the court for directions on the previously untested question of whether liquidators in Scotland have the power to disclaim onerous property. Representing a global supplier of diving and subsea equipment in the successful resolution of a multi-million pound contractual dispute at mediation. Acting on behalf of the purchasers of a company in a substantial damages claim for breach of warranty in respect of the seller’s failure to disclose, under the terms of a Sale and Purchase Agreement, information regarding the supply of defective products. Representing a high net worth private investor in a successful claim for £1.1million under a put and call option agreement. The claim involved the calling up of a standard security granted as security for the debt, and the defence of a petition for suspension and interdict in relation to that calling up process.
Shoosmiths
Stuart Lewin
Partner
Mills Oakley
Stuart Little
Stuart Little is head of the advisory services division at Shoosmiths, responsible for the management and direction of one of the firm’s largest groupings. As divisional head, Stuart is responsible for leading almost 400 legal advisers, including 70+ partners, working across a portfolio of the firms core commercial disciplines including commercial, IP, employment, pensions, regulatory, and commercial litigation. Within this broad commercial frame work the division is also able to offer support across specialist service lines including privacy & data, cyber, competition compliance, international arbitration and insurance. Complementing its specialist technical expertise, the division is focussed on delivering a solutions-based approach to clients drawing on technology and the use of AI to enhance the overall client experience. He works closely with general counsel (GCs) and in-house legal teams and is a regular panel speaker at in-house lawyer events (most recently the GC Summit in London in 2019). In conjunction with the GC of a leading US technology company, Stuart pioneered a risk and reward pricing model which was a winner of one of the first FT Innovative Lawyers Awards, for innovation in billing and fees. He maintains a hands-on role as the client partner for one of the firm’s major technology clients and is a member of the Society for Computers and Law. A skilled negotiator, he has utilised ADR processes to achieve early commercial resolution, frequently preserving what are important commercial relationships between the parties.
Shoosmiths LLP