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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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Signature Litigation’s cases featured in The Lawyer’s Top 10 Appeals of 2024

6 February 2024

Signature's Privinvest Shipbuilding SAL (Holding) and others v Filipe Nyusi appeal case is being heard this week. Privinvest’s appeal concerns the question of whether President Nyusi of Mozambique is entitled to assert sovereign immunity to challenge the jurisdiction of the Courts of England and Wales, which the Commercial Court found at first instance he was. The Court of Appeal will also consider if President Nyusi was validly served with proceedings in 2021 and so was out of time to contest jurisdiction in 2023.

An appeal to the Supreme Court in Recovery Partners and Revoker v Irakli Rukhdze and others, the date of which is yet to be confirmed. Signature act for the Appellants, whose appeal concerns an often litigated issue in law relating to breach of fiduciary duties and in particular the correct rule to be applied when assessing the scope of a defaulting fiduciary’s liability to account for profits.

The Lawyer's Top 10 Appeals of 2024 was published on 5 February, and can be found here.