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Covington & Burling LLP

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Covington & Burling LLP’s team ‘has a wealth of expertise and experience’, acting for clients including financial services and Fortune 500 companies, and household telecoms, tech and life sciences sectors. The expertise of the team largely lies in tech, financial services, and energy, with class actions and insolvency-related litigation also strengths of the team. Louise Freeman and Ian Hargreaves lead the team that includes ’one of the best litigators in London’, Craig Pollack. Special counsel Eddy Eccles is also noted.

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  • ‘The team has a wealth of expertise and experience. They are very good tacticians. They are a pleasure to work with.’

  • ‘I am been instructed by and worked closely with Ian Hargreaves, Craig Pollack and Greg Lascelles. The are each at the top of their games. They have enormous experience, show graat attention to detail, are very client friendly and are a pleasure to work with.’

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Work highlights

  • Represented Deutsche Telekom in a claim brought by the administrators of Phones 4U, who seek substantial damages for an alleged conspiracy among the UK Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) to put Phones 4U out of business.
  • Acted for a former director of Carillion plc in relation to ongoing regulatory investigations into the collapse of the company and in relation to Directors’ Disqualification proceedings brought by the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

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