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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 MORESignature Litigation and Partners Graham Huntley and Simon Bushell have been featured in Legal Business's Disputes Yearbook 2018 articles "Boutiques: Highly evolved" and "The Bar Elite: Silk and steel." "Boutiques: Highly evolved" and "The Bar Elite: Silk and steel" were published in Legal Business, on 17 May 2018, and can be found here and here.
Boutiques: Highly evolved
"With the disputes market evolving and clients becoming more discerning, it has been a phenomenal ten years for boutique law firms focused on litigation. The pressure on generalist, mid-market dispute teams has played towards this dynamic, leaving true contentious specialists increasingly going head-to-head with the traditional London elite...
."..Growth has been dramatic at Signature. The firm capped off a run of high-profile mandates to record a 16% uptick in revenue for the 2016/17 financial year. Among the cases was The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) group action, in which the firm represented thousands of investors in a GBP 4bn rights-issue dispute. Under Signature’s profit-sharing scheme, 21% of profits were paid out to staff.
"Signature partner Graham Huntley, who led for the firm on the RBS case, comments: ‘We take the benefits of our simplicity and efficiency to offer clients lower-charging models. It would also have been a great shame if we hadn’t taken the opportunity of a blank sheet of paper to create a whole new economic and management model for law firms, which is what we did six years ago.’"
The Bar Elite: Silk and steel
"Despite Brexit, costs pressures and the loss of financial crisis work, reports of the commercial Bar’s decline are overblown. We identify the sets and the silks redefining the modern Bar"
Commenting on Mark Hapgood QC of Brick Court Chambers, Graham Huntley said: "in an increasingly inhospitable litigation environment, [Mark] stands out as a first class human being as well as advocate."
"One of the biggest cases this year involves alleged bribery: Bluewaters Communications Holdings v Bayerische Landesbank (BLB). It follows the 2016 sale to CVC Capital Partners of BLB’s stake in Formula One Group, authorised by its former chief executive Bernie Ecclestone. Signature Litigation partner Simon Bushell has retained Tim Lord QC for Bluewaters; Linklaters has instructed Helen Davies QC for BLB; Robert Miles QC and Richard Hill QC (both 4 Stone Buildings) have been instructed by HSF for Ecclestone; while Brick Court’s Michael Bools QC and Fountain Court’s Bankim Thanki QC are acting for Bambino Holdings."
