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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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The need to adapt the EU Product Liability Directive to the digital era – Sylvie Gallage-Alwis

17 February 2020

On 22 January 2020, the European Parliament Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection discussed, during a public hearing, the topic: “Product Liability Directive: protecting consumers in the Digital Single Market”.

The Commission’s representatives emphasised how crucial the topic is in order to “reinforce EU’s industrial capacity to allow it to be technologically sovereign” as well as being able to offer a competitive advantage to producers to innovate and compete with China and the United States.

Multiple stakeholders are questioning whether the liability for defective products is still relevant in light of new technologies.

Sylvie Gallage-Alwis specialises in all cutting-edge complex disputes linked to products, namely product liability, product safety, toxic tort, mass litigation/class action, regulatory compliance, and environment. After 10 years of practicing in a major international law firm, Sylvie heads Signature's product liability practice.