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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.
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Counsel
Dr. Dominik Stier is a Counsel at Signature’s Frankfurt office, specialising in complex commercial litigation.
With 11 years’ experience, Dominik has extensive expertise representing national and multinational clients in high-stakes litigation and arbitration matters, across a variety of industries, including financial services, private equity, real estate, chemicals as well as manufacturing and industrials.
He represents clients in follow-on antitrust damages claims, including cases involving occupant safety systems, power cables, and packaging. Most recently, Dominik represented Mexican chemical company Orbia and its German subsidiary Vestolit against follow-on damage claims in the billions arising from the European Commission’s 2020 ethylene decision.
His expertise extends to competition law disputes as well as complex technology-related disputes, encompassing internet law, IT contracts, and data protection liability. Dominik’s practice also spans a broad spectrum of corporate litigation, including shareholder disputes, M&A matters, and directors’ and officers’ liability.
Through his involvement in numerous cross-border matters, Dominik has acquired substantial expertise in the law governing the German courts’ international jurisdiction, the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in Germany — including exequatur proceedings — and the determination of applicable law.
Prior to joining Signature, Dominik spent 11 years in the disputes department of White & Case, based between Frankfurt and London.
Dominik has been recognised as ‘One to Watch‘ in Litigation in Germany by Handelsblatt since 2025.
Dominik was admitted to the German Bar in 2015.
Dominik is a native German speaker and is fluent in English.
Competition Law Litigation
Corporate Litigation
Commercial Litigation
International Arbitration
Enforcement
Press Quote: Signature Litigation wächst mit Local Partner von White & Case – JUVE – 8 September 2026
The Legal 500: Enforcement of Judgments Comparative Guide – Germany, Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters, August 2022 (co-author with Markus Langen and Kristof Waldenberger)
International Comparative Legal Guide – Enforcement of Foreign Judgments 2022, Laws and Regulations Germany, Chapter 13, March 2022 (co-author with Markus Langen and Kristof Waldenberger)
Lexology GTDT Technology Disputes 2022 – Germany
Cyber-Security Legal Handbook (Rechtshandbuch Cyber-Security), Gabel/Heinrich/Kiefner (Eds.), Frankfurt am Main, 2019, Chapter 10, Litigation and Liability (Co-author with Markus Langen)
Securities Litigation in Germany, Lexology
Enforcement of Foreign Judgements, Lexology
Comment on the judgement of the German Federal Court of Justice of 19. November 2019 (II ZR 306/18) – Disclosure of the special benefits granted to a founding shareholder in the issue prospectus, RdF 2020, 145-146
