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Stewarts Law LLP

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The highly regarded group actions offering at Stewarts Law LLP is jointly led by head of tax litigation David Pickstone, competition litigation head Kate Pollock and securities litigation head Keith Thomas. The team, which focuses on cases concerning securities, competition, tax, financial product mis-selling, consumer and data privacy, has recently been acting for multiple financial institutions in claims against Glencore – the firm has a track record of high-profile roles on a raft of other headline-making claims, including the Ingenious and Eclipse film scheme cases and Asda Stores Limited & Others v Mastercard in the Supreme Court.

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Keith Thomas

Keith Thomas

Stewarts Law LLP

Head of the Securities Litigation department. Keith focuses on complex and high-value commercial litigation with a particular emphasis on financial and banking disputes. Keith has recently led the high profile RBS Rights Issue Litigation to a successful conclusion on behalf of 313 major financial institutions. Keith’s expertise is in banking and financial litigation, securities litigation, multi-jurisdictional and international disputes, fraud and asset recovery, private client and trust disputes. Cases on which Keith has acted include the RBS Rights Issue Litigation where he advised 313 financial institutions on recovering their losses arising from RBS’s £12bn rights issue, the recovery from London institutions of monies for a US receiver of a collapsed hedge fund and a number of high profile Russian disputes being tried in London.

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The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

David Pickstone, Kate Pollock, Keith Thomas

Other key lawyers

Fiona Gillett, James Le Gallais, Marc Jones