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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 MOREPartner Flore Poloni examines the case of Douala International Terminal (DIT) v. Port Autonome de Douala in the French Cour de Cassation, and discusses whether this judgment may serve to repurpose the arbitrator's duty to disclose throughout the arbitral proceedings. Read Flore's full article, published in LexisNexis on 26 July 2024, here.
The French Cour de Cassation confirmed that the friendship between an arbitrator and the counsel of one of the parties, revealed in a eulogy written by the arbitrator in memory of the counsel, and in which the arbitrator emphasizes his friendly relationship with the deceased, is such as to raise a reasonable doubt as to the independence and impartiality of the arbitrator. Such friendly ties should have been disclosed by the arbitrator in his declaration of independence and impartiality at the outset of the proceedings. The discovery of a friendly relationship that went beyond the realm of academic sociability between the arbitrator and one of the parties' counsels which was not disclosed justifies setting aside the arbitral award for irregularity in the constitution of the arbitral tribunal pursuant to article 1520 2° of the French Code of Civil Procedure (the ‘CCP’).
