Ranked as a top-tier firm for Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets in the United States by Chambers Global (2025) and Chambers USA (2025).

The group is flawless. Anything that comes up, no matter how novel or sophisticated, is dealt with perfectly.

Debevoise is a top-notch practice.

They find the right balance in combining strategic legal advice with commercial risk assessment.

The team is in a class of its own in the IP world.

The Debevoise & Plimpton team is recognized as an absolute leader in the field. The attorneys are experts in both the big picture and the finer details of the matter.

Every Debevoise lawyer I've interacted with is brilliant, pragmatic and incredibly responsive.

—Chambers USA, 2021-2025

The brightest IP minds around. They will run circles against any other team on trademarks.

Debevoise’s experience is vast and top notch and their resources are cutting edge.

This is the team you go to when you have the most complicated IP issues or a bet-the-company type of issue. No other firm can beat their innovative strategy, top notch legal analysis, and phenomenal litigation skills.

—The Legal 500 US, 2022-2025

Top-class practice with a sophisticated focus on the most complex copyright, trademark and false advertising matters.

—Chambers Global, 2023-2025

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Consistently placed in the top-tier by Chambers Global, the Intellectual Property Group enjoys a position of extraordinary prominence, including being selected as Managing Intellectual Property’s “Trademark Contentious Firm of the Year” in four of the last seven years. The team was also named the Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year at the Chambers USA Awards in 2022.”The Group handles a wide variety of cases around the world, including trademark, trade dress and advertising disputes; copyright matters in media and entertainment; right of publicity issues; and unfair competition, trade secret and patent cases. Many of its cases have cross-border components, and it has deep experience across a wide range of industries.With litigators renowned for their tough-mindedness and practicality, the Group led The Legal 500 to say, “You wouldn’t want to spill any blood in the water with these guys around. They are tough, efficient and highly effective trial lawyers.”Debevoise’s Intellectual Property and Technology Transactions lawyers play integral roles in advising clients on a wide range of transactions and commercial business activities that implicate intellectual property rights, information technology and privacy matters. The depth of the firm’s Corporate Department provides a full-service approach to clients’ complex IP transactional issues.Clients benefit from lean, highly experienced and skilled teams that offer thorough analysis of the law, refined to its most practical application. Finding the right business answer is always the priority.Partners work closely with clients at every step of a matter. Within Debevoise, the Group enjoys a close working relationship with complementary practices and other offices. The result is what Chambers USA has called a “sophisticated, high-value, and well-balanced practice,” with “terrific people and great depth.”