Commercial Litigation lawyers

Weiming Huang

Partner

Dehehantong Law Offices

Wendy McGraw

Counsel

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Wendy N. Moody, KC

Partner

Dentons

Wes Earnhardt

Wes Earnhardt is a first-chair trial and appellate lawyer with significant experience in antitrust, general commercial, intellectual property, securities, and financial restructuring and reorganization matters. He is described as a “careful and thorough” litigator and praised for having a “gift for communicating complicated concepts in an accessible way.” (Chambers USA) Named a “Litigation Trailblazer” by The National Law Journal and a “Litigation Star” by Benchmark Litigation, Mr. Earnhardt regularly represents clients in their most business‑critical disputes.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Wes McMillan

Partner

Allen McMillan Litigation Counsel

Wes Walker

Westley is a dispute resolution lawyer with substantial experience advising clients on their business-critical disputes. Westley has represented clients from a wide range of industries – including technology, life sciences, manufacturing, commodities and financial services – in high-value proceedings before the High Court, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court in the UK, as well as in arbitrations under various institutional rules. He also regularly provides clients with early strategic advice with a view to avoiding formal proceedings altogether. The majority of Westley’s work has an international dimension and he regularly advises clients on the associated jurisdictional and conflicts issues. Westley trained and practised at a magic circle firm and was seconded during his training contract to a leading German law firm. Westley speaks German fluently.

Bristows LLP

Whitney O’Byrne

Whitney R. O'Byrne | Morrison Foerster Whitney O’Byrne is a trial lawyer with a wide range of experience litigating complex civil, regulatory, and criminal matters. She represents clients, large and small, in disputes involving intellectual property, legal malpractice, antitrust, consumer class actions, privacy class actions, and other commercial litigation in state and federal court. Whitney has also represented individual and institutional clients in investigations conducted by the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Reserve, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Whitney’s substantial trial experience includes a multi-district antitrust case in the Southern District of New York, a patent trial in the Northern District of California, criminal trials in California and New York, and multiple JAMS and AAA arbitrations. Whitney is also a NITA trial skills instructor and has taught trial advocacy at multiple levels for over 10 years. Whitney most recently practiced at a premier litigation boutique, where she worked on trade secrets, legal malpractice, and class action litigations for companies ranging from early-stage startups to established technology companies. Whitney also served as a law clerk in the Eastern District of New York. Whitney was recognized as a 2021 Rising Star by Northern California Super Lawyers and has been published by Bloomberg Law. She has served on the Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the Barristers Club of the Bar Association of San Francisco and was a member of the Edward J. McFetridge Inn of Court. Whitney graduated from Columbia Law School, where she served as an Articles Editor of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review and was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. She earned a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis. Whitney is admitted to the State Bars of New York and California.

Morrison Foerster

Wilfred Ferguson Jr.

Wilfred is an Associate in the firm’s Litigation Department, working directly under Senior Partner and head of litigation, Brian Simms QC. His practice covers insolvency and restructuring, trust disputes, commercial litigation, personal injury, contractual disputes and fraud cases. Wilfred has appeared as junior counsel in both the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal of the Bahamas.

Lennox Paton

Will Anderson

Partner

CMS

Will Beck

Will is an Of Counsel in the Restructuring and Insolvency team at RPC. He specialises in advising all stakeholders (including banks, insolvency practitioners, creditors and boards of directors) on all aspects of domestic and cross-border insolvency and restructuring matters. Will has broad experience of advising clients in respect of distressed, turnaround and insolvent situations. Drawing on his previous experience as a corporate and commercial lawyer, Will has advised on acquisitions, disposals and restructurings of distressed companies and worked on substantive commercial disputes which have had an insolvency context. Will has particular expertise in advising on formal insolvency processes and reorganisations and restructurings conducted through schemes of arrangement (including in the insurance industry).

RPC

Will Richmond-Coggan

Will is a Partner specialising in data protection advice, both contentious and non-contentious. Will advises a range of clients from large multi-nationals looking to ensure that their UK/EU operations are compliant with the requirements of GDPR while integrating with their worldwide activities, through to start ups particularly working in the deep tech fields like AI, facial recognition and big data applications. As a nationally recognised expert on GDPR and data protection matters, Will has established a broad practice servicing clients across the UK, as well as having considerable experience in advising clients based in the US/Canada and in the Far East. He provides strategic advice to help clients to build products and services around the concepts of data protection by design, supports clients with their transformation or compliance audit activities, and represents clients in contentious matters up to and including at Court in appropriate circumstances. Will’s broader disputes work encompasses a range of commercial technology disputes. He has acted for national and international hardware and software companies in litigating over misuse of their information; breaches of contract and diversion of business and for smaller clients in some ground-breaking litigation around social media litigation.

Freeths LLP

Will Thompson

Senior Associate

Fladgate LLP

Willem Heemskerk

Willem Heemskerk has been with Pels Rijcken since 1992 and is one of the most experienced litigators in the Netherlands. He handles complex civil law disputes for mainly large national and international companies. His areas of expertise include liability, damage & insurance, professional liability, attachment, collection and enforcement, and media law. Willem acts as counsel both in adjudication as well as arbitral proceedings. Willem Heemskerk is regarded as a leading expert in Dutch civil procedural law; he has many publications to his name, was the Vice President of the Dutch State Advisory Committee on procedural law, and regularly serves as expert in foreign proceedings. For many years, Willem is ranked in Band 1 for Dispute Resolution in the Chambers Global and Europe Guide and in the Hall of Fame for Dispute Resolution: Commercial Litigation in The Legal 500 Guide. In late 2018, Willem was recognised as the “Best Litigator in the Netherlands” in an election organised by the VIA.

Pels Rijcken

Willemijn van den Berg

Willemijn’s broad experience as a litigator in business disputes includes domestic and international commercial matters and matters involving professional liability of accountants, tax lawyers and attorneys. Willemijn is an expert in contract law, procedural law, private international law and liability law (in the broadest sense). Willemijn litigates cases before the civil courts and disciplinary courts.

Lennox Litigation

William Angas

Partner, Head of Dispute Resolution, Co-Head of Insolvency and Corporate Restructuring

Cripps

William Beausoleil

William J. Beausoleil is a litigation partner in Hughes Hubbard & Reed’s New York office with extensive experience in product liability, insurance coverage and general commercial litigation matters.

Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP

William Berkowitz

William Berkowitz is a partner in the Litigation Department of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. His practice focuses on antitrust, franchise, distribution, mergers and acquisitions, and other commercial litigation. Mr. Berkowitz has tried cases in state and federal courts and administrative agencies in Massachusetts, New York, New Hampshire, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland. He has argued appeals in the New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Delaware courts of appeal and before the United States Courts of Appeal for the First Circuit (three times), Third Circuit, Fourth Circuit and Eleventh Circuit. He has also represented clients before the Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Reserve Board and a number of state agencies. Mr. Berkowitz is recognized by Chambers USA as a leading lawyer in antitrust. He is also ranked by Best Lawyers as leading lawyer in franchise law and by Benchmark Litigation as a Massachusetts litigation “star.” Beyond litigation, Mr. Berkowitz routinely consults with clients on mergers and acquisitions regarding compliance with federal and state antitrust laws, state franchise laws, the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, and foreign premerger notification laws.

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

William Burgess

Bill Burgess’ practice focuses on appellate litigation across a broad range of subject matter, including patent litigation, commercial litigation, and regulatory matters. He has argued appeals in most of the United States courts of appeals, including several in the Federal Circuit. He has been to trial several times, joining trial teams to brief dispositive motions or prepare for appeals, and has also practiced before agencies such as the Patent & Trademark Office, International Trade Commission, and EPA. Before joining Kirkland, Bill was a law clerk to Judge Walter K. Stapleton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and Judge William C. Bryson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

William Charrington

William advises corporate clients, institutions and individuals on a wide range of contentious matters. His practice includes disputes arising out of commercial contracts, civil fraud, professional negligence and judicial review. He has experience of all stages of the litigation process from initial pre-action advice up to trial, and of alternative forms of dispute resolution such as mediation and arbitration. William has particular experience of acting in complex civil fraud disputes relating to banking. He advises on applications for interim relief including freezing and asset disclosure orders. His broad practice also includes advising clients on art related disputes and inquest proceedings.

Farrer & Co

William Christopher

William is a partner in Kingsley Napley’s Dispute Resolution team, based in London. He deals mainly with civil fraud litigation and asset recovery. William has specialised in commercial litigation with a particular focus on civil fraud actions since he qualified. He has extensive and wide-ranging litigation experience, having acted in cases involving contractual disputes, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of trust, and insolvency-related litigation. William has also acted in many international fraud cases throughout his career, involving the recovery of assets concealed in offshore jurisdictions. He is highly experienced in using freezing injunctions, search orders and disclosure orders in international fraud investigations. He acts as a supervising solicitor in the execution of search orders. William acts for foreign governments,HNW individuals, corporates, and trustees both corporate and individuals. William's main areas of expertise include: • Civil fraud (often involving multiple jurisdictions) • Internal fraud investigations • General commercial litigation (including shareholder disputes) • Contentious and fraud related insolvency litigation William writes extensively for external publications including the Global Investigation Review. He was also a contributing author to Lexology's Getting the Deal Through 2020 - Asset Recovery.

Kingsley Napley LLP

William Easley

Associate - Corporate and Finance Transactions

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

William Erskine

Principal

Offit Kurman

William Geraghty

Wilkinson Stekloff

William H. Taft V

William H. Taft V, based in the New York office, is a partner in the Litigation Department, and is the firm's Chief Financial Officer and a member of the firm's Management Committee. His practice focuses on commercial and corporate governance litigation and international arbitration. Mr. Taft has experience leading complex commercial matters for clients across a range of industries, including private equity, sports & entertainment, energy, commercial real estate, project finance and insurance. He is admitted to practice before the New York State Courts, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and several U.S. Courts of Appeals, and he has appeared in arbitrations under the rules of the major U.S. and international institutions.

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP