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3VB is one of the leading financial services sets in London. Consistently listed in both Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners as a Band 1 set, members of Chambers have a wealth of expertise in this area, encompassing private litigation, contentious regulatory work and judicial review.
Members of Chambers act for and against financial institutions, financial regulators, and private clients worldwide, in connection with a full range of financial services matters, including banking and insurance, Part VII FSMA transfers, investment business, money laundering, consumer credit and enforcement activity.
One Essex Court is a pre-eminent set of London barristers’ chambers right at the very top of the commercial litigation and disputes market. Our principle areas of practice include, banking and financial services; civil fraud and investigations; company and insolvency law, including shareholder and joint venture disputes and restructuring matters; competition and cartel damages claims; group and class actions; energy, oil, gas and renewables work; intellectual property disputes; construction and infrastructure project disputes; professional discipline claims; and tax law. Barristers at One Essex Court are often instructed in the most complex and high-value cases passing through the courts. Recent, high-profile work has included: in SKAT v Solo Capital Partners LLP & Ors in proceedings brought by the Danish tax authority to recover £1.44bn it says it was induced to part with by a sophisticated fraud; in Banca Intesa Sanpaolo SpA and Dexia Crediop SpA v. Comune di Venezia before the Court of Appeal upholding the validity of interest rate swaps entered into by Venice with the Banks and overturning the High Court decision that they were void because Venice lacked capacity to enter into them under Italian law; for G4S Ltd in defence of a group action brought under Section 90A and Schedule 10A of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000; and for a number of parties in COPA v. Dr Wright & Ors. dispute concerning IP rights in relation to the development of Bitcoin.
Independent Mediators is a leading UK and international mediation chambers managing the practices of ten of Europe’s leading full-time civil and commercial mediators. All ten feature in the top tiers of the leading legal directories. They have mediated over 9,500 matters between them in their careers. The commercial disputes mediated include almost every sector of business and law.