About Corvane Ryle

Who we are

Helen Corvane and Arthur Ryle opened a two-room office in Chicago in 1958 with a short list of principles. Sixty-eight years later those principles still organize everything we do, across 26 offices in 14 countries.

Unwavering client focus

We start with what a client is trying to achieve, then build the team, the strategy and the timetable around it. Our lawyers are measured on the outcomes they help clients reach, not on the hours they record.

Consistent excellence

The same standard of work applies in every office, on every matter, for every client. We invest in training, in knowledge management and in technology so that quality does not depend on who happens to be available.

True partnership

We work as one firm. A client in Singapore should have the same access to our antitrust bench in London, our privacy team in Washington, D.C. or our deal lawyers in New York as one sitting in the same room as them.

A culture that compounds

A firm is its people. We hire widely, train deliberately and promote on merit, and we expect every lawyer to leave a matter a little better at the craft than when it began.

Our people

Our lawyers come from more than 60 law schools and a wide range of backgrounds, including engineering, medicine, public service and journalism. That range shows up in the quality of the questions we ask clients.

Chair Miriam Okafor-Lindqvist has led the firm since 2022 and describes the aim simply: to be the first call when something important is at stake.