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London

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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Gibraltar

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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Paris

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

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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Apolline Foucher

Associate

The quality of their service has always been exceptional. The team excels at developing and coordinating litigation strategies that are not only thorough but also realistic and perfectly aligned with clients’ expectations. 

– The Legal 500 EMEA 2026

The team is excellent, always ready to meet our needs and anticipate risks and expectations.

– The Legal 500 EMEA 2026
Very good advice, to the point and with attention to detail. 
– The Legal 500 EMEA 2026

Apolline is an Associate at Signature Litigation’s Paris office with considerable experience in civil and commercial litigation. She represents French and international clients in a wide range of tort and contract claims.

Her practice encompasses several areas of litigation, including product liability, unfair competition, and the abrupt termination of established commercial relationships. She advises a broad range of companies operating in the chemical, energy, banking, and digital sectors.

Prior to joining Signature Litigation, Apolline trained with the Commercial Litigation team at Hogan Lovells. She also gained valuable experience within the in-house legal teams of two major international companies in the construction and pharmaceutical industries, both in France and abroad, accumulating over eighteen months of in-house experience.

Apolline holds law degrees from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas University, as well as a Master of Business Administration from the Assas Management School.

She is a native French speaker and a fluent English speaker.

  • Representing a leading US chemical manufacturer in a personal injury claim commenced in the French courts by an individual against a number of chemical manufacturers in relation to the supply of Agent Orange, a herbicide and a defoliant, used by the US Army in the Vietnam War to destroy vegetation for the protection of US troops. The case concerns notably the application of a sovereign immunity principle to commercial entities when acting on State’s instructions. The case reached the Court of Cassation, the highest Court in France for civil matters.
  • Representing a European utility company in claims initiated by an electromagnetic health and environment-focused organisation and, separately, by individuals in relation to alleged health and environmental risks posed by smart utility meters, as well as in relation to consumer protection issues under the company’s General Terms & Conditions.
  • Representing Dalloz, LexisNexis, Lextenso, Lexbase and Lamy Liaisons, the five main legal editors in the French legal publishing market, in unfair competition proceedings before the Paris Court of Appeal against Forseti, the company behind the Doctrine.fr website.
  • Representing top five Lebanese banks in multiple significant cases arising in the context of the Lebanese financial crisis and concerning regulatory restrictions on clients’ withdrawal of foreign currency deposits. The cases included defending the banks against interim attachment applications made by the banks’ clients in France.