Banking Litigation
We have extensive experience of acting on a range of financial disputes for investment banks, other financial institutions and private individuals. Our specialist banking litigation lawyers provide practical and commercial advice to clients on a variety of contentious issues.
Why choose our Banking Litigation lawyers?
Many of our cases are complex, cross-border matters and we often advise clients with interests in offshore jurisdictions, as well as those with domestic financial disputes. We support clients to recover assets, enforce their rights and defend claims. We also provide strategic advice on related regulatory and reputational issues.
Our experience includes advising on documentary credits, standby credits, demand guarantees, performance bonds and other banking documents, as well as security enforcement issues, including cross-border enforcement and international arbitration enforcement. We also provide commercial advice on issues arising from customer relationships, such as mis-selling claims, misrepresentation claims and conflict of interest negligence claims.
Our banking litigation practice is distinguished by our market-leading
expertise in specialist areas such as derivatives, commodities, film finance,
rights of set off and bankers' liens, insolvency and fraud issues as well as
business relationships in the CIS and Middle East.
Notable deals and highlights:
- We represented the trustee of an Islamic finance transaction in a dispute concerning the continued legal validity of a Sharia finance transaction. Parallel proceedings in London and the Gulf gave rise to jurisdictional questions about the appropriate forum, procedure and applicable law.
- We represented a Cayman Islands fund, which lent money to Cambria Africa plc, an AIM-listed company with investments in Zimbabwe. We advised on the preservation and enforcement of its contractual repayment rights, including the commencement of proceedings to obtain disclosure of the location of key assets belonging to Cambria.
- We have acted for Lehman Brothers Finance SA in a number of leading cases concerning the interpretation of the ISDA Master Agreement.
Key contacts
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Partner, Dispute Resolution
Andrew Lafferty
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London, England
- +44 (0)330 460 6589
- Email Andrew
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Partner, Financial Regulation and Litigation
Duncan Black
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London, England
- +44 (0)330 460 6472
- Email Duncan
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Partner
Donna Goldsworthy
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London, England
- +44 (0)330 460 6609
- Email Donna
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Senior Partner
David Wilkinson
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Managing Partner - Luxembourg, Finance
Ingrid Dubourdieu
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Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- +352 621 359 076
- Email Ingrid
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Joint-Managing Partner - Brussels, Litigation
Jean-François Germain
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Brussels, Belgium
- +32 2 742 70 30
- Email Jean-François
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Partner, Co-Head of Technology and Data
Simon Briskman
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London, England
- +44 330 460 7107
- Email Simon
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Partner - Legal - Head of Banking & Finance
Carmelo Raimondo
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Milan, Italy
- +39 02 806731
- Email Carmelo
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Partner, Co-Head of Financial Services and Financial Markets and Products
Guy Usher
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London, England
- +44 (0)330 460 6484
- Email Guy
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Partner, Banking, Real Estate Finance, Project and Asset Finance
Oliver Abel Smith
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London, England
- +44 (0)330 460 6462
- Email Oliver
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Partner, Corporate
Arik Aslanyan
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London, England
- +44 330 460 6372
- Email Arik
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