Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has ‘one of the best banking litigation teams in the City’, with ’excellent depth of talent’. Swap transactions disputes, freezing injunctions, and insolvency disputes are all strengths of the team, which acts for leading banks and financial institutions. ‘Highly capable’ James Norris-Jones heads the practice, and is skilled at handling complex shareholder and joint venture disputes, as well as cases with fraud and insolvency elements. James Brady-Banzet is ’incredibly knowledgeable and hard-working’, often acting on complex and multijurisdictional banking disputes. Jonathan Kelly and Naomi Tarawali are noted, along with Rohan Mandumula, a ‘future star’.