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The New York office of Lovells provides litigation, business restructuring and insolvency, insurance and reinsurance, banking, capital markets, intellectual property and tax advice to the firm’s domestic and international clients. The breadth and depth of experience of the nearly 55 lawyers practicing in the New York office enables clients to utilize the office for both general representation and highly specialized cross-border transactions and cases that demand an understanding and appreciation of specific industries, shifting market forces and diverse areas of the law. The New York office works closely with the firm’s other US and international offices on multi-jurisdictional transactions and cases to ensure the best possible match of experience with the clients’ needs.

New York City's importance to global markets makes it a critical business center for our clients, many of whom have major operations in the US and in the rest of North America.

Lovells has a litigation and arbitration capability in New York of the highest quality in general commercial litigation, in bankruptcy litigation, and in insurance and reinsurance litigation. Our New York lawyers also have a range of transactional experience with a focus on banking, capital markets and securities law, corporate insurance and taxation. Our lawyers have significant experience representing corporations, lenders and underwriters in complex issuances, financings and other transactions throughout the world.

Our global experience includes the representation of US-based companies doing business abroad, as well as international companies conducting business in the US.  Our lawyers advise clients on a broad range of both litigation and finance matters in the following areas:

  • arbitration

  • banking

  • business restructuring and insolvency

  • capital markets and securities law
  • corporate and regulatory insurance

  • corporate taxation

  • English corporate law

  • financial services

  • intellectual property 

  • international commercial litigation

  • fraud and asset tracing

  • reinsurance and insurance

  • securities and financial litigation.

A large amount of the New York office's client work involves cross-border transactions or cases that span Europe, Asia, and the Americas. We closely interact with our global network of offices in major markets around the world to provide our clients with the highest quality and consistency of legal experience and service. As a result, our New York lawyers can call on the substantial resources of Lovells other US, European and Asian offices to provide clients with the experience required to support their transactions worldwide.