Litigation: General Commercial: The Elite

For decades, Simpson Thacher has successfully represented numerous commercial clients in industry-challenging high-stakes commercial disputes. These disputes have touched multiple areas of law including securities, commercial contracts, bankruptcy, antitrust, business torts, insurance, class actions, and government and internal investigations. Clients benefit from our cross-discipline experience to successfully litigate and try countless complex cases in courts and arbitral tribunals in many jurisdictions, including state and federal courts and before domestic and international arbitration panels—through which we have amassed extensive jury and bench trial experience over the years. We have won significant law-defining appeals on behalf of our clients in these areas. The Firm was recently profiled by the New York Law Journal as a 2025 “Finance Litigation Department of the Year” finalist and was also named the 2024 “Finance Litigation Department of the Year,” an accolade previously awarded to us in 2022, 2019 and 2017. Additionally, the Firm is consistently ranked in Dispute Resolution: General Commercial Disputes by The Legal 500 and for General Commercial by Benchmark Litigation. Our Firm and many of our litigators have also been recognized with additional honors by Global Competition Review, Global Investigations Review, Law360, Bloomberg Law, The National Law Journal, The Am Law Litigation Daily, Daily Journal, Crain’s New York Business, The American Lawyer, and more.