Administrative and Public LawBanking and Financial Markets LitigationCivil Fraud, Asset Tracing and RecoveryCommercial LitigationCompetition LawConstruction and Engineering DisputesContentious Trusts, Estates and Private Wealth DisputesGroup Action LitigationInsolvency LitigationInsurance and Reinsurance LitigationInternational ArbitrationInvestigations and White Collar CrimeProduct LiabilityProfessional Negligence LitigationToxic Tort and ESG
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.
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There will also be an opportunity to meet and get to know industry experts in an informal, collaborative and educational setting over breakfast. Chatham House rules apply!
RSVPIoannis Alexopoulos, Partner, Signature Litigation
Ioannis specialises in international commercial litigation and arbitration, with a particular focus on civil fraud disputes, business break ups and asset recovery.
He has extensive experience in asset tracing and investigations claims, as well as judgment enforcement across multiple jurisdictions. He has also managed regulatory investigations including US Department of Justice Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigations.
Catherine Naylor, Partner, Signature Litigation
Catherine specialises in corporate commercial litigation and civil fraud and asset recovery, including in insolvency situations. Catherine has nearly 20 years of experience supporting clients to resolve a broad range of commercial disputes, both domestic and cross-border, in particular offshore litigation. Catherine is highly experienced in post-M&A, joint venture and shareholder disputes, fraud and asset recovery work and contentious insolvency and trusts litigation, across a range of sectors.
Kate Gee, Partner, Signature Litigation
Kate is a civil fraud disputes and asset recovery specialist. She has more than twelve years’ experience acting in complex, high value, cross border disputes, including general commercial litigation and litigation relating to digital assets and technology.
Kate regularly advises clients on global litigation strategy, enforcement matters and asset tracing claims.
Christopher Jeffreys, Senior Vice President, Burford Capital
Christopher Jeffreys is a Senior Vice President at Burford Capital, with responsibility for assessing and underwriting legal risk as part of Burford’s EMEA investment team, with a focus on asset recovery.
Prior to joining Burford, Chris was a Director at FTI Consulting in their Global Risk and Investigations Practice and previously worked as an investigator and analyst at GPW (now a JS Held company). In these roles, his work largely focused on complex fraud and asset recovery investigations, often in support of litigation.
Tom Brown, Director, Burford Capital
Tom is a Director at Burford, where he is responsible for assessing and underwriting legal risk as part of the EMEA investment team, with a focus on asset recovery. In this role, he also manages Burford’s EMEA investment pipeline.
Prior to joining Burford, Tom served as a Principal Investigative Lawyer at the UK Serious Fraud Office, where he handled complex fraud investigations. Before that, he worked as an associate at Herbert Smith Freehills, gaining extensive experience in commercial litigation and regulatory matters.
Kristina Kicks, Managing Director, Interpath
Kris is an Insolvency Practitioner and Managing Director in Interpath’s market leading Contentious Insolvency team. Kris has over 20 years’ experience in asset tracing, insolvency and recovery in the UK and overseas.
She specialises in contentious and complex corporate and personal asset recovery and insolvency assignments, and has wide experience in enforcement, investigations and in identifying and securing assets in the UK and overseas. Kris has recently handled a number of insolvencies of FCA regulated entities.
Michael Leeds, Managing Director, Interpath
Michael is an Insolvency Practitioner and Managing Director who has over 18 years’ experience of insolvency, asset tracing and recovery assignments in the UK and overseas, specialising in corporate and personal assignments.
Michael is regularly instructed to assist with devising insolvency strategies, which include his appointment as liquidator. Michael has significant experience working as a Receiver to assist with enforcing judgments and awards and is increasingly being asked to assist on Private Wealth disputes, divorces and contentious Deceased Estates.
