England - London • Dispute resolution
Slaughter and May’s practice is, for one client, ‘responsive, creative, and collaborates well with other counsel to deliver extraordinary results’, and acts on many of the complex high-value inquiries, and major regulatory investigations. The team notably represents Credit Suisse in multi-billion-dollar claims and JP Morgan Chase Bank in high court litigation linked to global forex investigations. Richard Swallow is ’preeminent with good reason’, and leads the team. ‘Very experienced, calm, measured, and strategic advisor’ Ewan Brown has a broad-based banking litigation and investigations practice, and is key to the team alongside ’exceptional advisor’ Gayathri Kamalanathan. Also at partner level, Camilla Sanger and Richard Jeens both have expansive banking and financial services litigation practices, along with Jonathan Clark and Peter Wickham. At associate level, Edward Coles is singled out for his ‘ mastery of complex matters and attention to strategy’.
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Partner; Ewan is Co-Head of our Global Investigations Group. He has a broad-based contentious practice with a particular focus on financial institutions, acting in both litigation and regulatory investigations. Ewan also has experience advising in relation to corporate crime, competition claims, shareholder disputes, outsourcing and tax appeals.
Managing Partner; As our Managing Partner, Deborah works closely with our Senior Partner to develop and promote the firm’s strategy and global approach, and with our COO to oversee the strategic running of the firm. Deborah’s practice covers the broad spectrum of commercial litigation as well as domestic and cross-border investigations. She acts on substantial and complex commercial disputes for a wide range of clients, as well as on restructuring and insolvency. Deborah is regarded as one of the UK’s leading lawyers in the field of banking and commercial litigation and regulatory investigation. She has acted for many major financial institutions across a spectrum of contentious matters, including acting for major financial institutions in relation to LIBOR and FX. Deborah has also led our teams on various financial crime and mis-selling enforcement actions brought by the FCA.
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Partner; Jonathan has a strong and varied litigation and investigations practice advising a wide range of financial services and corporate clients. He has deep experience defending allegations of deliberate wrongdoing, having advised on criminal and regulatory investigations and litigation involving alleged corruption, fraud, cartel activity and tax evasion. Jonathan’s litigation practice includes a focus on banking cases relating to complex derivatives transactions and benchmark manipulation, as well as multi-jurisdictional competition litigation in a number of sectors. He also advises clients in a number of different industries on appeals to the Competition Appeals Tribunal from decisions of the UK competition authorities. Jonathan has particular interest and experience in advising clients in relation to ongoing business and PR issues in the context of live litigation or investigations.
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Partner; Camilla has a wide experience of handling complex and substantial disputes which often span multiple jurisdictions. Her practice covers commercial, banking and competition litigation and contentious regulatory investigations, as well as internal reviews. She has acted for a number of major corporates, banks and other financial services institutions. A particular focus of her practice is on class and group action claims; she has acted on many significant class action proceedings, including some of the highest profile competition-litigation claims before the English courts.
Partner; Peter is a partner in the Disputes and Investigations Group and has a broad-ranging international commercial arbitration and litigation practice. Peter is a significant and leading member of our Arbitration Group, with particular expertise in complex, high value energy sector disputes, conducting arbitrations under the ICC, LCIA and SIAC rules. Peter has a wide experience of handling complex and substantial litigation which often spans multiple jurisdictions, with his practice encompassing commercial, class action / group, competition and banking litigation. Peter has also been involved in advising corporate and banking clients in relation significant investigations / regulatory matters.
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Richard Swallow