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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 Paul Brehony comments on when the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) will transition to become the Audit, Reporting and Governance Authority (ARGA), as the King’s Speech in November did not include parliamentary time to enact the legislation to create the ARGA. Read Paul's comments in Compliance Week, published 18 December 2023, here.
“The government’s glacial progress with replacing the FRC has been blamed on government ineptitude, the lobbying power of the Big Four accountancy firms, and political expediency,” said Paul Brehony, partner at law firm Signature Litigation. “The skepticism is understandable, but given both major parties have committed to rolling it out—subject to the usual vagaries of realpolitik—it does seem likely that we will see an articulation of the current audit reform program (i.e., ARGA) by 2027 or thereabouts.”
Ironically, said Brehony, the FRC has been a more effective regulator since news of its imminent demise. He said it will remain in place for at least three more years, without many of the enhanced powers or independence of ARGA, even though its headcount and fees have increased in anticipation of the changeover.
