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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 Hermès Marangos comments in Law360 in relation to the recent Municipio de Mariana v BHP Group judgment, as part of an article examining the top UK financial services litigation decisions of 2020. Hermès' comments were published in Law360, 23 December 2020, and can be read here. Hermès has also examined the implications of this ruling further in an article for Legal Week, here.
"The High Court blocked in November a lawsuit brought on behalf of more than 200,000 Brazilians seeking damages from mining giant BHP over a deadly dam failure in 2015...
...Hermès Marangos, a partner at Signature Litigation, said the judgment raised questions about class actions in the future and about the positioning of the courts of England and Wales after Brexit.
"It's interesting how many claimants and countries want to bring their cases here," Marangos said. "I think the approach will be to say that we are equipped to hear the case, even if it is in order to access proceedings elsewhere, and even in some cases it might mean an anti-suit injunction to ensure that things that agree to go to arbitration go to arbitration.""
