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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 MOREFounding Partner Graham Huntley discusses the Financial List and how it would manage claims in the financial markets at CDR's Autumn Litigation Symposium. "The first session of CDR’s Autumn Litigation Symposium, chaired by Alan Watts of Herbert Smith Freehills, explored the number of proposed changes to the United Kingdom’s Commercial Court. Ben Rigby reports...
...Following him was Graham Huntley of Signature Litigation, who gave a clear and concise overview of the Financial List, seen by many as demonstrating a modern and responsive approach to an important area of work.
Outlining how it would manage claims in the financial markets, he left the audience in no doubt of the overriding importance of docketing and flexibility, speed, and efficiency in that jurisdiction; judges managing the List, said Huntley, were determined to use “every possible means” to be as flexible as possible.
The Court of Appeal was also discussed, with Huntley raising the question as to whether the court was falling behind in providing what financial market clients needed, and problems relating to the backlog of cases, with appeals often lasting longer than a year to be heard.
Huntley outlined some current solutions, such as limiting oral renewal hearings and using the same judge dealing with the paper application, but also discussed the consequential risk to denying justice to parties as a result.
He also canvassed broader questions, including whether it was good enough, in today’s markets, to take the view that appeals on the construction of contracts were simply issues of law; the factual context of such claims needed to be understood, and any contract had to be properly viewed in a proper context..."
