Sponsors
Baker McKenzie’s battle-tested litigators partner with clients to identify litigation strategies that align with our clients’ business objectives. With 1,000+ disputes lawyers globally, we take an integrated approach using our deep technical expertise and industry knowledge to provide tailored advice and support to our clients during disputes.
One Essex Court is a pre-eminent set of London barristers’ chambers right at the very top of the commercial litigation and disputes market. Principle areas of practice include: banking and financial services; civil fraud and investigations; company and insolvency law, including shareholder, joint venture disputes and restructuring matters; competition and cartel damages claims; group and class actions; energy, oil, gas and renewables; intellectual property disputes; construction and infrastructure project disputes; professional discipline claims; and tax law. The depth of quality and expertise available in Chambers regularly see members acting for multiple parties in the largest and most complex commercial cases.
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 alleges was lost to a sophisticated fraud; in Municipio de Mariana & ors v BHP Plc in group litigation arising out of the collapse of the Fundão Dam in Brazil; for various automobile manufacturing groups in defence of the NOx Emissions Group Litigation; and for a number of parties in COPA v Dr Wright & Ors a dispute concerning IP rights in relation to the development of Bitcoin.
OpenText Legal Tech provides the information advantage to enterprise legal departments and law firms, delivering speed to facts, optimised legal operations, managed legal risk, and improved outcomes with industry-leading AI, complemented by trusted expertise and superior services. OpenText Axcelerate, now with Aviator technology that harnesses the power of large language models, delivers best-in-class investigative capabilities in a fully integrated, intuitive review interface that help legal teams get to the facts that matter sooner and inform their case strategy. New Axcelerate with Aviator GenAI capabilities, including automated key document summaries and Aviator Review, as well as built-in data visualisation, conceptual and textual analytics and technology-assisted review capabilities provide legal teams with early and important insight to quickly understand and intelligently organise the data to improve review efficiency and cost savings by minimising the overall volume of documents warranting legal review.
Networking Sponsor
Flex Legal is a platform that rapidly connects you to lawyers and paralegals on an interim basis. Hiring via Flex is faster, more cost-effective, and more flexible than conventional recruitment. Our platform houses one of the UK’s largest databases of interim legal professionals, and we can have a candidate shortlist ready for you in 24 hours. Flex Trainee helps us take our mission to make the legal industry more inclusive for all a step further. A scheme which has been created to support talented, aspiring lawyers from socially mobile backgrounds qualify in-house through the SQE route.
Independent Mediators is an award-winning 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 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 and range in value from tens of thousands of pounds to multi-billion.
For sponsorship enquiries please contact:
Kylie Mackenzie
Head of UK Events – Legal Business
Email: [email protected]