Litigation, Investigations & Advisory

Ashurst Perkins Coie’s appellate lawyers help clients address high-stakes disputes with clear strategy, rigorous advocacy, and disciplined execution. We handle appeals, preserve issues for review, and coordinate across courts and jurisdictions to protect client interests and deliver strong results when reputations and business priorities are on the line.

We provide guidance to clients by assessing risk, managing exposure, and resolving complex disputes efficiently. Our lawyers represent clients in courts, arbitrations, and cross-border matters involving contracts, business torts, IP, trade secrets, and regulatory claims, with a focus on practical strategy and business-driven results.

Our litigators handle complex disputes, investigations, and enforcement actions for global companies, banks and financial services firms, emerging businesses, governments, and senior managers. We align strategy with client priorities, advocate in courts and tribunals worldwide, and pursue practical resolutions through litigation, arbitration, and alternative dispute resolution.

We help clients manage risk, strengthen compliance programs, and respond to enforcement inquiries worldwide. We advise on investigations, misconduct, transactions, policies, controls, and disputes, providing practical, integrated counsel as laws, regulations, and business priorities evolve.

Our lawyers defend companies, directors, officers, advisers, and professional services firms in disputes and investigations. We handle corporate governance matters, enforcement proceedings, transaction-related disputes, and professional liability claims with a focus on mitigating business, market, and reputational risk.

We represent companies and their executives in sensitive investigations, enforcement actions, and related litigation worldwide. We address alleged corporate and employee misconduct before criminal and regulatory authorities, with a focus on protecting clients’ interests, reputations, and business objectives.

We advise clients on avoiding, managing, and resolving international arbitrations aligned with commercial goals. We have a single global team who counsels on commercial arbitrations, investment treaty disputes, and public international law matters across major legal systems.

Our lawyers provide guidance to clients facing collective claims that threaten operations, reputation, and enterprise value. We manage coordinated, multijurisdictional exposure, apply local procedural insight, pursue early resolution or narrowing of claims, and support risk-reduction strategies after disputes conclude.

We handle litigation, investigations, recalls, compliance, contracts, supply-chain disputes, and crisis responses for manufacturers, retailers, e-commerce businesses, insurers, and others across global markets.

We advise employers on complex workplace, labor relations, and workforce management issues worldwide. Our lawyers counsel on evolving laws, remote and flexible work, workplace safety, diversity and inclusion, workplace investigations, and litigation, with a focus on mitigating risks, supporting operations, and protecting global workforces.

We counsel clients on all aspects of antitrust, consumer, and trade law worldwide. Our lawyers combine market insight and industry knowledge to support multinational companies and startups across technology, financial services, energy, healthcare, retail, agriculture, and other sectors.

We exclusively represent policyholders across the full life cycle of insurance recovery. We help clients assess potential coverage across their portfolios and develop practical strategies to deliver strong results and have a proven record of enforcing coverage rights under every type of commercial insurance policy across all major industries.

Our trial teams manage a broad spectrum of cases and include leading lawyers with extensive experience in state and federal courts. Whether a matter proceeds before a jury or a judge, Ashurst Perkins Coie brings the experience needed to meet the challenge.

Our practice represents clients in some of the world’s most significant environmental litigation matters.

Defending food, beverage, beauty, and CPG brands in class actions, regulatory disputes, and compliance matters.