A WORD FROM OUR SPONSORS
Every year, thousands of multinational corporations, financial institutions and investors choose English law to govern their contracts. Their business interests are international, their offices span the globe, their deals are negotiated in multiple languages; yet, when it comes to recording the terms they have agreed, they repeatedly turn to English law. Moreover, when deciding the forum for determining their commercial disputes, time and time again they choose the courts of England and Wales. Why do they make that choice? It certainly is not just tradition. Of course counterparties who choose English law know that by doing so they will imbue their contracts with the cumulative weight of centuries of considered jurisprudence. But commercial entities are not beholden to history. If English law and the English court system did not work for them now, they would look elsewhere.