The Legal 500

Hassans’ Lewis Baglietto is highly recommended. The dispute resolution team has been very active with Marrache & Co litigation, and has also been involved in the local litigation relating to Madoff. Institutional clients include banks, gaming companies and trust managers. David Dumas QC is ‘well respected’ and John Restano regularly takes claimant human rights and public law cases up to the Privy Council, as well working on shipping and commercial litigation.

At Triay & Triay, Alfred Vasquez QC leads a ‘well-established’ team that includes a range of talented and highly experienced litigators. The team has acted in various complex cases including commercial, trust, personal injury and shipping disputes. Charles Simpson’s recent work includes a group claim relating to the misselling of a financial product and a high-value fraudulent trading case. The highly experienced Joseph Triay, Robert Vasquez, Simon Triay and Joseph E Triay Jnr are recommended.

Attias & Levy’s Keith Azopardi is widely recommended and is ‘very well regarded’ in the jurisdiction. The firm is very active in commercial, matrimonial and human rights litigation for clients including banks, property financiers and ship owners. The firm also represents high-net-worth families in trust matters. Samantha Sacramento is considered a lawyer to watch.

Isolas‘ Elliot Phillips has been promoted to partner and has been involved in a case estimated to be the highest-value matter to have been dealt with by the local courts. Albert Isola and Samantha Grimes have been acting for lenders on complex Marrache & Co related matters. The firm also has a strong contentious employment practice.

Triay Stagnetto Neish’s James Neish QC has a wealth of experience and is said to ‘deliver in court’. The firm has been active in insolvency and employment related litigation, and has a strong team that includes Guy Stagnetto, Damon Bossino and associate Owen Smith.

Dispute resolution, including insolvency and employment matters, is an area of substantial growth for Cruz & Co. Nick Cruz has experience in arbitration cases and has also sat as an expert in arbitration, and Paul Borge has been acting for three large multinational accountancy firms in a high-value case. The firm is praised for its ‘tenacity’ and ‘robust protection of its clients’.

Charles A Gomez, Barrister-at-Law has a niche practice in top-end judicial review and high-value clinical negligence work. Charles Gomez is praised for his ‘diligent’, ‘fearless’ approach to this type of litigation and is said to ‘put his every effort into his client’s interests’.

Civil litigation is an active area for Stephen Bullock & Company.

Verralls Barristers and Solicitors is recommended as a ‘professional and polished law firm’. Neil Costa, noted for his ‘outstanding’ and ‘in-depth’ knowledge, is a general civil practitioner and has recently been involved in an application for a worldwide freezing injunction and with disputes arising out of commercial transactions and boardroom deadlocks. Chris Miles has Court of Appeal and Supreme Court trial experience.