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Founded in 2012, Signature Litigation has grown into one of London’s pre-eminent specialist dispute resolution practices. From the outset, we set out to do things differently: a conflict-free, disputes-only platform designed to give clients the undivided focus and strategic agility that complex, high-stakes matters demand.
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Established in 2017, Signature Litigation's Gibraltar office was founded to address growing demand for specialist expertise in commercial litigation and private wealth disputes on the Rock.
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Signature Litigation AARPI houses one of France’s most enviable product liability practices, with the team also handling commercial and corporate litigation, insurance and reinsurance, toxic tort and ESG, civil fraud and asset tracing, international arbitration, administrative and public law.
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Frankfurt has emerged as one of Europe's foremost financial and commercial centres and, increasingly, as a bridge between European and Asian markets. With that growth comes an increasing demand for sophisticated dispute resolution. Signature Litigation established its Frankfurt office to meet this need, bringing our conflict-free, disputes-only platform to the German market.
FIND OUT MOREPartners Flore Poloni and Nicolas Brooke discuss the setting aside of an arbitral award by The Paris Court of Appeal calling on the Libyan state to pay 452 million euros to the French company Sorelec, ruling that the underlying contract had been obtained due to corruption. They examine concerns over evidentiary standards relating to corruption allegations and analyse how far the arbitration court should have gone to uncover the alleged history of the contract, in Le Monde du Droit. Flore and Nicolas' article was published in Le Monde du Droit, 15 January 2021, and can be found here.
France strengthened its legislative framework in the fight against corruption by adopting the "Sapin II" law in December 2016, notably creating an obligation to prevent corruption risks for large companies and introducing into French law the concept of judicial convention of public interest inspired by the American deferred prosecution agreement, which aims to put an end to the legal proceedings against a company suspected of breaches of probity, giving rise to a number of spectacular agreements since the entry into force of the law (Société Générale in June 2018, Airbus in January 2020). Simultaneously, the Paris Court of Appeal has continued to strengthen its control of arbitral awards in this regard, as evidenced by a judgment rendered on 17 November 2020, in the case between the State of Libya and the French company SORELEC: a displayed application of the "red flags" method used in foreign bribery cases.
