Debevoise offers one of the strongest Cross-Border Litigation practices of its kind, successfully representing clients in high-stakes litigation in the United States and across the world.
Natascha Born
Christopher Boyne
Mark W. Friedman
Shannon Rose Selden
William H. Taft V
Highly Ranked by Chambers Global for International & Cross-Border Disputes for over five years in the United States, and regularly recognized as a leading firm in both the United States and the United Kingdom.
Debevoise & Plimpton [has] an impressive international team that exclusively focuses on cross-border work.
Debevoise [attorneys] are very effective at cross-jurisdictional work.
Debevoise & Plimpton offers an exceptional multidisciplinary and international practice.
—Chambers Global, 2025
Consistently ranked as a top-tier firm for International Litigation by The Legal 500.
Debevoise provides a host of bright, intelligent and independently remarkable practitioners who possess a depth of knowledge and experience. The result of this synergy is a formidable and superior legal team that you always want to have on your side.
A demonstrated in-depth knowledge of the law.
—The Legal 500 US, 2025
[The team] has an ability to litigate extremely complex civil matters, with a particular strength in trying cases. They focus on the critical issues and simplify them for a judge or jury.
They are excellent; you go to them when you have a really complex situation. I find them to be solid legally and able to adjust to the needs of the client. I would take them over everybody else.
[Debevoise's] work product is at an extraordinarily high level and they navigate complex issues that impact a myriad of concerns from a business and risk management perspective.
—Chambers USA, 2025
Our clients include global companies, individuals, and foreign sovereigns and state-owned enterprises seeking representation in cross-border matters.
In the United States, we regularly litigate complex disputes for clients who are based abroad as well as claims based on U.S. clients’ foreign contracts or projects. We are experts in the complex and evolving set of issues that these cases often present, including choice of law, the extraterritorial scope of U.S. law, personal jurisdiction, corporate separateness, foreign sovereign immunity, enforcement of foreign awards and judgments, and cross-border discovery. And we have significant experience litigating cross-border claims of all kinds, from contract and tort disputes to RICO actions, TVPRA and ATA claims, intellectual property claims, antitrust cases, and securities actions.
Our team also excels at complex multi-jurisdictional disputes, including managing parallel litigations in multiple forums and/or related litigations, investigations, prosecutions, and arbitrations. With offices in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, in addition to New York, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, and close ties to local counsel across the globe, our lawyers offer a seamless and efficient world-class litigation service to its clients.
Debevoise lawyers are highly collaborative, and clients benefit from lean, intensely focused teams with the right subject matter expertise for each particular case. Partners work closely with clients at every phase of a dispute to get to the right business answer and the best possible result.