Debevoise Named International Arbitration Firm of the Year at 2025 Benchmark Litigation USA Awards

7 March 2025

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP has been named International Arbitration Firm of the Year at the 2025 Benchmark Litigation USA Awards, which celebrates the leading firms and most distinguished litigators across the country.

Additionally, Benchmark Litigation named partners Andrew Ceresney to the Securities Litigator of the Year shortlist, and Ina Popova to the International Arbitration Litigator of the Year shortlist. The firm was also shortlisted for the White Collar Crime/Investigations Firm of the Year award.

For over four decades, Debevoise’s International Dispute Resolution Group has offered winning advocacy, commercial judgment and client dedication across a broad range of international commercial and treaty arbitration, public international law and complex commercial litigation cases unmatched by any other firm in the world. Debevoise is one of the only firms to be consistently ranked Band 1 in the Chambers Global international arbitration, public international law and dispute resolution guides.

Debevoise’s award-winning White Collar & Regulatory Defense Group is ranked as one of the world’s top practices by Global Investigations Review and as Band 1 by Chambers on both sides of the Atlantic for its complex representations of clients facing litigation and public policy crises, as well as Band 1 in the U.S. for securities enforcement and anti-corruption. Selected by Chambers USA as the 2024 Criminal Litigation Law Firm of the Year, by Global Investigations Review in 2023 as Most Impressive Litigation Practice of the Year, by Benchmark Litigation as the 2022 White Collar Firm of the Year and by Law360 as a 2021 White Collar Practice Group of the Year, the Group has been involved in some of the most significant investigations, litigations and resolutions in recent memory. The practice offers international and domestic clients a depth of experience and global reach that allows for effective and strategic counsel.