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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 MORECounsel Lucy Keane examines the Scottish Court of Session's recent decision in Ferit Samuray v Maxim Asanov in relation to resolving conflicting jurisdiction clauses in multi-agreement structures. Lucy's full article was published in LexisNexis UK, 26 February 2025, and can be found here.
Dispute resolution analysis: On a preliminary issue of jurisdiction before the Court of Session, the court in Scotland held that it had jurisdiction notwithstanding conflicting clauses in two related agreements—a Share Purchase Agreement (‘SPA’) and a Share Pledge and Loan Agreement (SPLA). Each had distinct choice of law and jurisdiction clauses. The question for the court was whether it was seised of jurisdiction or whether the courts of Cyprus had jurisdiction over the subject matter of the dispute. In reaching its decision, the court had to construe the relevant choice of law and jurisdiction clauses and decide which of them applied to the dispute between the parties. Neither party was resident in Scotland or Cyprus and, but for the jurisdiction clauses, neither country would have jurisdiction. Written by Lucy Keane, counsel at Signature Litigation, Gibraltar.
