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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.

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​Ex-JPM Trader Represented by Signature Litigation Wins Review of FCA’s Decision to Drop Probe

1 January 1970

"Former JPMorgan Chase & Co. trader Julien Grout was granted a court review of a U.K. regulator’s decision to drop him from a probe into a USD 6.2 billion trading loss before he was allowed to respond to the allegations.

Richard Lissack, Grout’s lawyer, told the London court today that the decision by the Financial Conduct Authority was “irrational and unlawful.” The FCA dropped its probe into Grout because of pending U.S. charges, Lissack said.

JPMorgan agreed in September to pay about USD 920m to settle U.S. and U.K. investigations into the losses stemming from Bruno Iksil, the Frenchman who became known as the London Whale for the size of his positions. The U.S. also filed criminal charges against Grout and Javier Martin-Artajo, who oversaw synthetic credit trading at the bank’s chief investment office in London."

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