Recognition
LBKM has been ranked as a leading firm in insurance, asset tracing & recovery, corporate crime and investigations, and arbitration by Chambers and Partners, Global Investigations Review, Legal 500, and other respected guides. Some of the latest are listed below.
Global Investigations Review
GIR 100 2024
Chambers and Partners
LATIN AMERICA GUIDE 2025
- Corporate Crime & Investigations (International Counsel) (Band 3)
- "[A]n active team that is known for its expert handling of corporate crime and investigation cases arising out of Latin America."
- "Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss are creative, understand our risks and show a hands-on approach to our cases. Their legal practitioners have a strong knowledge of Latin American jurisdictions."
USA Guide 2024
- Insurance: Insurer (Washington DC) (Band 3)
- "Boutique firm Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss has a strong reputation for advising both London and US insurers in significant coverage cases and reinsurance disputes. Its strong track record covers environmental liability and health hazard cases as well as arbitration and advice in relation to regulatory matters such as compliance with sanctions."
Litigation Support Guide 2024
- Asset Tracing & Recovery (Global-wide) (Band 4)
- Adam Kaufmann (Band 3)
- “Adam Kaufmann is my go-to US lawyer: when I need a US lawyer, he's the first person I call and if he can't help me he knows who can. He is a true specialist, I wouldn't go anywhere else.”
- Eric Lewis (Band 3)
- "Eric is the smartest lawyer I know, with an ability to make things understandable and pragmatic. He is great to work with."
- Adam Kaufmann (Band 3)
Legal 500
Private Practice Powerlist 2023
- Arbitration (Middle East)
LEXOLOGY (Who’s Who Legal)
ARBITRATION 2025
Investigations 2024
Asset Tracing 2024
Thomson Reuters Super Lawyers
Washington 2024
New York 2024
National Black Lawyers
Top 100 2024
"I can’t think of an improvement to its practice. We’ve worked with several leading international law firms and in our experience when it comes to complex, high-stakes issues Lewis Baach provides unmatched value.”
“A conflict-free, innovative and hard-hitting firm when needed, but subtle and under the radar when required. They are solution-oriented.”
"The team is a force to be reckoned with."
"They're top-drawer."
–Client and market sources quoted in Chambers Litigation Support Guide 2021, 2023; USA Guide 2021