England - London • Dispute resolution
Simmons & Simmons
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The banking litigation practice at Simmons & Simmons is ‘exceptionally strong’, according to one client, who commends the team’s ’deep sector knowledge combined with impeccable knowledge of the law’. The practice has expertise in litigation, investigations, contentious regulatory and financial crime, acting for investment and retail banks, as well as hedge funds and institutional funds. Patrick Boylan and Caroline Hunter-Yeats jointly lead the team that includes Adam Brown, who brings ‘impeccable commercial judgement’. Richard Bunce has a practice that encompasses banking, international debt capital market, and financial services disputes. Robert Turner has extensive experience in asset management and the investment funds sector. At associate level, James Voos is ’a real pleasure to deal with’, and Craig Gilchrist is ‘superb, hugely diligent and highly intelligent’.
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‘The banking litigation department at Simmons & Simmons is exceptionally strong. Deep sector knowledge combined with impeccable knowledge of the law.’
‘Adam Brown is a phenomenal partner; he is one step ahead of his counsel team and his clients; he has impeccable commercial judgement, but also exceptional legal and banking sector knowledge.'
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Key clients
- EFG Bank AG
- Kaupthing ehf
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Work highlights
- Acting for EFG Bank AG (EFG) as one of approximately 40 Defendants in $800m claim brought by The Public Institution for Social Security of Kuwait (PIFSS) in the Commercial Court.
- Acting on behalf of Business Mortgage Finance (BMF) - over a four-year period - to defend against and injunct a campaign to illegally assume control of securitisation structures with original balances of notes over £1.3bn.
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