Davis Polk is one of the world’s premier law firms. Known for our skillful work in highly complex matters that are critical to our clients, we offer high levels of excellence and breadth across all our practices and specialties.

Our clients, many of them industry and global leaders, rely on the exceptional, collaborative service we deliver through our 10 offices worldwide. Their success is our core focus. Following is a sampling of feedback from our clients about our work with them.

Client Service

• Capital Markets: Derivatives & Structured Products: Nationwide
  
  “The team knows its clients’ businesses extremely well and is quick to give us the benefit of the whole firm’s resources.”
  
  
  
  

• Corporate/M&A: The Elite: Nationwide
  
  “Efficient, experienced and really good at providing advice you can act on.”
  
  
  
  

• Financial Services Regulation: Nationwide
  
  “I have been consistently pleased by the team’s ability to provide timely and useful legal services on short deadlines.”
  
  
  
  

• Investment Funds: Hedge Funds: Nationwide
  
  “The lawyers are incredibly thoughtful, very thorough and have a remarkable amount of knowledge. The firm has consciously built a client-oriented service.”
  
  
  
  

• Private Equity: Buyouts: Nationwide
  
  “The lawyers really think ahead and anticipate issues so their clients are never caught off guard. The team is more loyal to its clients than any other leading firm.”
  
  
  
  

• Litigation: Antitrust
  
  “The people there are all superb – it’s a uniformly tremendous team.”
  
  
  
  

• Litigation: General Commercial: The Elite
  
  “The firm’s attorneys are very responsive and their bench is second to none.”
  
  
  
  

• Litigation: Securities
  
  “Clients appreciate the group’s multidisciplinary, one-stop-shop approach and its culture of putting its best people on the task. ‘They give you the final product all wrapped up with a bow on it!’”
  
  
  
  

• Litigation: White Collar Crime & Government Investigations
  
  Davis Polk’s “fantastically strong white collar, regulatory and internal investigation practice houses a deep bench of criminal defense lawyers.”
  
  
  
  

• Securities Regulation
  
  “The lawyers have tremendous expertise and excellent advocacy skills.”
  
  
  
  

Commercial Awareness

• Capital Markets: Derivatives & Structured Products: Nationwide
  
  “Davis Polk is the market. The attorneys won't miss any issues."
  
  
  
  

• Financial Services Regulation: Nationwide
  
  “It is a class act. The lawyers understand both the legal issues and market factors.”
  
  
  
  

• Investment Funds: Private Equity: Fund Formation: Nationwide
  
  “An extremely impressive team; it has a no-nonsense approach and provides very practical advice.”
  
  
  
  

• Litigation: Antitrust
  
  “They are rightly lauded for their M&A and joint venture expertise, and are also entering the litigation realm more than ever before.”
  
  
  
  

• Litigation: General Commercial: The Elite
  
  “[Davis Polk’s] preeminence across a broad range of litigation types continues to impress in securities, complex commercial, white-collar criminal cases and investigations.”
  
  
  
  

• Litigation: White Collar Crime & Government Investigations
  
  “Standing at the vanguard of the white-collar bar for many years, ‘wonderful firm’ Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP is justifiably regarded as ‘one of the pre-eminent criminal defense and investigations practices in the US’.”

Source: Chambers USA