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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 MOREThe excellent outcome obtained by Signature Litigation on 11 March 2021 for its client Privinvest in a matter against Mozambique provides us with an opportunity to remind you of a specificity of arbitration under English law (when compared to French law).
In France, unless an arbitration agreement is manifestly void or inapplicable, a judge lacks jurisdiction to hear a case where there is an arbitration agreement (the so called negative effect of “competence-competence”). It is only at the annulment or enforcement stage that judges will look at the validity and scope of an arbitration agreement.In England, the judge can rule on the validity and scope of an arbitration agreement before an award is rendered and throughout arbitration proceedings.
In the Privinvest matter, English judges unanimously found – as arbitration proceedings were ongoing – that the requests made by Mozambique fell under the arbitration agreement’s scope and therefore could not be decided before a judge.
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