Alex Leitch

Commercial Litigation

Alex Leitch is one of the City’s best known and most experienced commercial litigation lawyers whose career has spanned more than 30 years. Over the years, he has litigated in several of the UK’s highest profile and most substantial international disputes, including in the Commercial Court and all major institutional arbitrations.

Alex is experienced in all forms of major commercial disputes, often with an international element, including disputes in private equity, investment mismanagement, fraud, data and cyber security, asset recovery, insurance recovery and regulatory enforcement. Alex has significant experience of most types of UK regulatory enforcement disputes, particularly in the financial services, pharmaceuticals and tech sectors. In the last year, he acted successfully for the defendant in one of the UK’s biggest data breach claims and separately recovered US$60m from several insurance companies in a political risk London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) insurance coverage arbitration.