Commercial Litigation lawyers

Derek Bambury

Derek specialises in all aspects of professional and institutional default, management liability, insurance coverage and contentious insolvency.

Browne Jacobson LLP

Derek L. Shaffer

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Derek Robins

Partner

Gordons Partnership 2020 Limited

Dermot McClean

Partner, Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Lavelle Partners LLP

Derrick Huang

Associate

Dehehantong Law Offices

Derrick Kizito

Derrick is an associate with the Litigation department of MMAKS Advocates.

MMAKS Advocates

Desmond Lee

Desmond is one of our partners specialising in contentious regulatory and compliance matters as well as complex cross-border commercial and shareholders’ disputes. Desmond regularly advises and represents financial institutions, multinational corporations, state-owned enterprises, start-ups and private clients. In particular, Desmond is experienced in representing clients on complex investigations by law enforcement agencies and market regulators in Hong Kong and abroad, such as the SFC and ICAC. He also represents clients across a range of commercial litigations in court and arbitration including cross-border commercial / trade disputes, corporate restructuring/insolvency, debt and asset recovery, disputes relating to financial products, investors/shareholders’ disputes, and fraud/white-collar crimes.

Howse Williams

Devesh Matta

Senior Associate

MRP Advisory LLC

Devora Allon

Devora Allon is a litigation partner in Kirkland’s New York office. She has a broad practice with a particular focus on antitrust, product liability and other commercial disputes. Devora also has significant trial experience, securing seven trial wins since 2015, including two recent victories in 2023 and 2024. Recently, Devora secured a victory for Gilead Sciences in a high-stakes jury trial involving billions of dollars in antitrust claims stemming from an alleged “pay-for-delay” scheme involving two HIV drugs. For this impressive victory, Devora and her co-counsel were selected as AmLaw’s “Litigators of the Week.” Her clients have also included Apple, GlaxoSmithKline, Starwood Capital Group, Sun Pharma, Teva, Torrent Pharmaceuticals and Upsher-Smith Laboratories.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Dharmendra Nair

Dharmendra is a disputes lawyer specialising in shipping, commodities and commercial litigation. He primarily represents companies and individuals based in India, Singapore and Bangladesh. Dharmendra has also advised and represented various oil companies, ship-owners, charterers, steel manufacturers, commodity suppliers, banks, software companies and wealthy individuals in relation to various disputes in London, India and Singapore.

Keystone Law

Diana Torres

Diana Torres is an intellectual property and commercial litigation partner in Kirkland's Los Angeles and Bay Area offices. Diana focuses her practice on false advertising, unfair competition, trademark, copyright, and trade secrets matters, and has handled many high-profile matters for a wide variety of clients, including biometric information security software developers, consumer product manufacturers, fitness service providers, entertainment and media companies, and Internet service providers. Diana also advises clients on compliance and contractual issues and commercial legal strategy.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Diane Lamarche

Partner

White & Case LLP

Didier Malka

Partner

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Diego De Lammerville

Diego de Lammerville has litigated numerous complex commercial disputes in state courts and in a variety of arbitral forums. Diego has experience in M&A/Corporate, securities and commercial/distribution litigation. Diego is teaching commercial proceedings at the Paris Bar School and also occasionally teaches securities litigation at Sciences Po.

Clifford Chance

Diego Flores

Counsel

Shartsis Friese LLP

Diem Vu

Partner

ATIM Law Firm

Dierik Cras

Dierik is partner and active in corporate and commercial transactions and advice, as well as corporate and commercial litigation. His practice comprises a wide range of national and international clients in various industries. Many of his clients have an entrepeneurial mindset, who appreciate his hand-on mentality.

Stek

Dietrich Snell

Dietrich L. Snell is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department and a member of the White Collar Defense & Investigations Group. Dieter has extensive experience in law enforcement-related matters spanning a wide range of disciplines. He has both federal and state level prosecutorial and investigative experience, having served for nearly two decades as an Assistant U.S. Attorney; as New York Deputy Attorney General; and as Senior Counsel to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9/11 Commission). Clients and Areas of Concentration Dieter’s clients include corporations and senior executives involved in civil and criminal investigations and prosecutions performed by federal and state law enforcement and regulatory authorities, in such diverse areas as money laundering foreign assets control antitrust false claims Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) securities fraud (including New York's Martin Act) civil rights environmental law online gambling He frequently handles sensitive internal investigations for corporate clients and other entities. Dieter’s practice also includes commercial litigation in both federal and state court. Prosecutorial Experience As the New York Deputy Attorney General, Dieter was responsible for the investigation, litigation and regulatory activities performed by the Division of Public Advocacy under former Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. He supervised approximately 300 professional staff and oversaw complex cases and investigations involving: Unlawful discrimination in lending, housing, and employment; Bid rigging and other deceptive business practices by major participants in the insurance industry; Securities law violations stemming from market timing activities within the mutual fund industry; Conflicts of interest between research and investment banking functions of major Wall Street firms and the negotiation of a settlement between those firms and federal, state, and industry regulators; Violations of the Clean Air Act by power plants and challenges to related Environmental Protection Agency rulemaking; Federal court litigation over preemption claims by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency regarding enforcement of the federal Fair Housing Act; Before joining the New York Attorney General’s office, Dieter served for 11 years as Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, notably handling the successful prosecution of 1993 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef for Yousef’s role in the 1994-95 plot to destroy 12 passenger jets in midair, as well as cases involving securities and commodities, bank and computer fraud, narcotics, money laundering, and racketeering offenses. As Deputy Chief Appellate Attorney, he supervised the preparation and submission of briefs to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The 9/11 Commission In his role as Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission, Dieter led the team assigned to investigate the plot that culminated in the September 11 attacks. He negotiated with the law enforcement, intelligence and diplomatic communities regarding access to documents, evidence, and witnesses; reviewed voluminous classified and unclassified materials; conducted witness interviews; advised commission members and assisted them at public hearings; and drafted and edited substantial portions of The 9/11 Commission Report.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Dieuwertje de Leeuw

Dieuwertje de Leeuw (1983) is a founding partner of Finch Dispute Resolution. Dieuwertje is a commercial litigator with a focus on corporate and contractual disputes. She handles a wide variety of post-M&A disputes, shareholder disputes, directors’ and officers’ liability cases and disputes relating to commercial contracts, including the termination of contracts and negotiations. She is a specialist in the areas of attachments, execution of assets and enforcement of judgments, and has garnered a wide range of experience in relation to disputes in the financial sector. Dieuwertje publishes and lectures on a regular basis. She is on the editorial board of the corporate law journal Bedrijfsjuridische Berichten (Bb) and acts as a guest lecturer at the Vrije Universiteit in a postgraduate legal program on corporate litigation.

Finch Dispute Resolution

Dila Capin

Associate

Cavus & Coskunsu Law Firm

Dila GUR

Associate

Gür Law Firm

Dimitri Dimitrov

Dimitri Dimitrov is a partner in Gide's Competition & International Trade team in Paris. He advises on competition and distribution law. He represents companies in proceedings before the French and European competition authorities (cartels and abuse of dominant position) and state courts (compensation claims, restrictive competition practices, etc.). He regularly assists French and foreign companies with the notification of complex, multi-jurisdictional merger transactions. Dimitri advises leading clients on competition and distribution law, both in transactional matters and major litigation. In particular, he has developed a practice aimed at manufacturers and distributors of healthcare products (medicines and medical devices). Dimitri is a graduate of the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and the University of Aix-Marseille. He was admitted to the Paris Bar in 2003.

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Dimitri Lecat

Avocat à la cour, Dimitri is a partner in our dispute resolution practice group, and a member of our global investigations and global antitrust litigation practice groups. He has strong expertise in regulatory investigations and enforcement proceedings (especially before the sanctions commission of the Autorité des marchés financiers France's financial markets regulator), white-collar crime (including bribery and corruption), and banking and financial services litigation. Dimitri also has particularly strong experience of global investigations in a range of sectors (including financial services, banking, technology, defence and automotive), commercial and business law-related matters, shareholder disputes and post-acquisition litigation.

Freshfields LLP

Dimitris Babiniotis

Asc. Professor Dimitris Babiniotis serves as head of our Litigation & Arbitration practice. Dimitris' practice focuses on complex state court litigation and commercial arbitration, both domestic and international. Litigation: Dimitris is widely recognized as a leading authority in appellate and cassation litigation. Having written extensively in these areas, he is regularly instructed by clients from all sectors of the market, irrespective of the nature and subject matter of their disputes, to deal with the highly sophisticated procedural issues involved in proceedings before the Courts of Appeal and the Supreme Court. In this context, Dimitris has acted as lead counsel representing corporate clients in a wide range of commercial and corporate disputes in both domestic and cross-border contexts. These include, but are not limited to, shareholder disputes, free and unfair competition disputes before state courts, consumer disputes including pharmaceutical disputes, disputes arising out of complex commercial transactions such as M&A transactions, financing transactions and distribution and agency agreements. He has also represented corporate clients in a wide variety of tort disputes, including business defamation, employment torts, and directors' and officers' liability claims. Arbitration: Dimitris has acted as lead counsel in a large number of complex international and domestic commercial arbitration proceedings. His practice encompasses disputes in all major industry sectors, namely construction and infrastructure, energy and financial services. Dimitris has also represented corporate clients in numerous arbitrations involving the Greek State or Greek state-owned entities in disputes arising out of public contracts. Arbitration-related litigation: Dimitris is widely regarded as an authority on arbitration-related litigation, having served as lead counsel in numerous proceedings for the annulment, recognition, and enforcement of arbitral awards before Greek state courts. He has also successfully represented international clients in compelling arbitration when litigation had been improperly initiated against them in Greek state courts. Dimitris is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court. Dimitris is an Associate Professor at the Law School of the Democritus University of Thrace, where he teaches civil procedure and arbitration at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His scholarly work encompasses arbitration, Supreme Court litigation (the law of cassation), appellate procedure, the binding effect of state court decisions and arbitral awards and the standards of judicial review of arbitral awards. He serves on the editorial boards of Greece's two most prestigious procedural law journals: the "Review of Procedural Law” and “Chronicles of Procedural Law”. Dimitris was appointed to serve as the official ambassador for the Vienna International Arbitration Centre (VIAC) in Greece.

Zepos & Yannopoulos