Services financiers

Notre travail en matière de services financiers

• Tout
• Royaume-Uni et Europe

• Acting for a wealth management firm

  Acting for a wealth management firm in respect of multiple customer complaints concerning advice given to invest in an unregulated collective investment scheme (a fund of hedge funds). We advised on communications with customers and the FOS and have assisted with the design and implementation of a scheme (for approval by the FCA) to compensate all customers who fit within certain defined parameters

  Acting for IFAs

  Acting for IFAs in claims by clients and the FSCS arising out of the collapse of Keydata Investors who have lost all of their funds

  Acting in relation to a series of unregulated investments

  Acting for an IFA on a claim brought by a household name against his former financial adviser in relation to a series of unregulated investments made across the world

  Acting in relation to civil and regulatory exposures

  Acting for a wealth management firm in relation to civil and regulatory exposures arising from pension switching advice in which customers were advised to switch from occupational to personal pensions

  Acting on a series of frauds committed

  Acting for a well known national IFA network in relation to a series of frauds committed by an adviser

  Defending claims in respect of mortgage products

  Defending claims in respect of mortgage products and a number of cases in respect of alleged negligent mis-selling of home and equity release schemes

  Negligent advice in relation to high risk investments

  Acting for insurers of a firm of IFAs, in a claim alleging negligent advice in relation to high risk investments following the sale of shares. The case raises novel issues about the duties of care owed to investors who do not wish to invest in traditional types of investment such as equities and bonds

  Tax and M&A advice when acquiring a British publishing business

  Acting for a global law firm in a multi-party claim following tax and M&A advice provided in the course of the acquisition of a UK publishing business.

• Cross-border contract dispute for insurer client

  Acting for a major insurer in a multi-million pound cross border contract dispute following the counterpartys material breach of contract, advising on the English law aspects and quarterbacking overall strategy in multiple strands of the case in France and England.

  Royaume-Uni

  Cross-border litigation involving fraud and breach of contract

  Acting for a major corporate in cross border litigation relating to fraud and breach of contract with total claims in excess of £1bn. Including handling breach of trust litigation is London with various ancillary freezing orders and overseeing Arbitrations and criminal proceedings in Italy and fraud claims in New York.

  Royaume-Uni

  Dispute concerning complex copyright infringement

  Acting for a software developer in a complex copyright infringement, breach of contract and confidential information claim which resulted in a lengthy trial in the Chancery Division of the High Court.

  Royaume-Uni

  Software dispute

  Successfully defending a software company in a dispute concerning the alleged misuse of confidential information, trade secrets and copyright.

  Royaume-Uni