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Swift Litigation

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Dispute litigation boutique Swift Litigation is a key destination for banking and financial litigation and is entrusted by high-profile French banks as well as some international ones for disputes including cases raising complex international and sanctions issues. The team regularly acts for banks in regulatory, civil liability and damages claims linked to bankruptcy cases. It also helps with loan recovery proceedings, including international ones, and manages mass consumer disputes pertaining to banks’ duty of care. Recently, the team has been entrusted to handle cases pertaining to banks’ ESG and duty of vigilance obligations regarding the financing of fossil fuels projects. Founding partner Julien Martinet has extensive experience.

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  • ‘Detail-oriented. Proactive and available.’
  • ‘Julien Martinet has a lot of experience, is intuitive and very analytical.’

  • ‘A particularly competent, trustworthy and proactive team.’

  • ‘Julien Martinet: excellent follow-up, great competence.’

  • ‘Good mastery, technique and efficiency. Remarkable editorial quality. Mastery of banking litigation, financing and corporate aspects.’

  • ‘Julien Martinet perfectly masters his subject and knows exactly how to communicate. Good advice and quality of analysis, exceptional curiosity about legal and judicial news.’

  • ‘The team is very available and extremely competent.’

  • ‘Julien Martinet's recently created firm has already established itself as a reference firm for banking and financial litigation as well as for pre-litigation advice or for complex operations or special cases (complex recovery with an international dimension for example).’

Lawyers

Leading individuals: Banking litigation

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Julien Martinet