For more than three decades, Kanun has stood beside corporations, boards and private clients — turning complex disputes into measured victories, and ambition into binding agreements.
Kanun was founded on a single conviction: that the finest legal advice is delivered early, plainly and without drama. What began as a two-advocate practice in a single office is today a chambers of more than forty lawyers across five practice groups.
We are retained for the matters that matter — boardroom investigations, high-value litigation, cross-border transactions — and we carry them with the discretion the trust demands. Every engagement is led by a partner, never delegated to the margins.
Six practice groups, one standard — the matter resolved correctly the first time, and the client informed at every step.
Incorporation, governance, mergers and acquisitions, and the day-to-day counsel that keeps boards decisive and compliant.
Read More →Commercial litigation, arbitration and mediation — courtroom advocacy and negotiation measured in outcomes, not rhetoric.
Read More →Patents, trademarks, licensing and trade-secret protection for the ideas and inventions that underwrite modern enterprise.
Read More →Acquisitions, development finance, landlord and tenant disputes, and construction claims resolved before they reach a standstill.
Read More →Executive agreements, workplace investigations, wrongful dismissal and collective matters — for employers and executives alike.
Read More →Investigation-stage representation through trial and appeal, conducted with the discretion and vigour a reputation demands.
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We begin every engagement the same way: by listening until the problem is fully understood, then stating plainly what the law permits, what it costs, and what we would do if it were our own matter.
Advice is given to serve the client's interest — even when it means advising against a costly course of action.
Every pleading, opinion and agreement is reviewed by a second partner before it leaves the chambers.
What is entrusted to us stays with us. Our offices, archives and counsel are bound by the same code.
When a matter reaches the courtroom, it is prepared as though the outcome will be examined for decades.
A selection of recent engagements across our practice groups. Every matter is confidential — names and details are summarised with the client's consent.
Kanun took a dispute our board had carried for two years and closed it in six weeks. The preparation was forensic; the advocacy, formidable.
What separates Kanun is the candour. They told us what the matter was worth, what it would cost, and what our odds were — before we signed.
In the middle of the most consequential transaction of our company's life, a single partner answered every call. That is why we remain clients.
They defended a reputation as carefully as they defended the claim. Two years on, the matter is settled and the relationship remains.
Forty-one lawyers across five practice groups — each matter led by the senior name on your engagement letter.
Commentary on the decisions and regulations shaping commercial life — written by the lawyers who argue them.
Dispute Resolution
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Corporate
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Regulatory
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