Disputes & investigations: deal monitor

From November 2025 to October 2026, Sartori & Partners recorded 12,054 dated deals of this type. Measured on settled 12-month windows, 11,886 deals against 10,128 the year before, the deal count rose 17.4%. The deal market as a whole moved +10.6% over the same windows.

By practice, Intellectual Property is involved in 42.3% of these deals and Litigation & Disputes in 14.5%. By client industry, Consumer Goods & Retail is involved in 5.2% of these deals and Individuals & Consumers in 5.0%.

Deal value was disclosed on 3.1% of them; where disclosed, the median was $40 million. 6,064 distinct clients appear across the window.

Greenberg Traurig ranks first among advising firms, in the 251-400 band; the full top 10 follows as ranks and bands.

For a firm building in disputes & investigations, deal flow is the demand signal: a practice that wins this work needs the partners to staff it.