England - Yorkshire And The Humber • Dispute resolution
DLA Piper
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DLA Piper is well known for its banking litigation expertise, which includes litigation in the fintech sector, COVID-lending disputes, class actions, cyber-security, private equity funding disputes, and ESG-related matters, as well as traditional-litigation support. Practice head Adam Ibrahim has extensive experience in this arena, including acting on class actions. Other key practitioners include Hugh Evans, who has a broad practice that covers mortgage disputes and fraud claims, and Chris Harvey, who handles operational banking issue-related claims, mis-selling claims, injunctions, crypto-assets, and fraud-related matters. Sohail Ali acts for investment, retail, and commercial banks, as well as fintech clients, while Claire Clayton-Stead was recently promoted to partnership.
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Testimonials
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‘The best banking litigation team outside of London. Real bench strength from senior partners down to junior associates. Very experienced, responsive and hard-working and a pleasure to be in the trenches with.’
‘Sohail Ali is very commercial, strategic and has a cool head in a crisis.’
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Key clients
- Bank of Ireland
- Lloyds Banking Group
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Work highlights
- Successfully acting for New Day on a strategic litigation, in respect of the biggest issue to hit the FS sector.
- Acting for Virgin Money/Clydesdale Bank on a litigant alleging fraud, conspiracy and misrepresentation against a major bank, successfully striking out multiple claims, including success in the Court of Appeal.
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