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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 MOREPartner Tom Snelling comments in Compliance Week in relation to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) fining Lloyds Banking Group GBP 64m for mistreating mortgage customers. Tom's comments were published in Compliance Week, 12 June 2020. The full article can be found here.
"The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Lloyds Banking Group GBP 64 million (U.S. USD 80 million) for its failure to adequately protect struggling mortgage clients.
Lloyds Bank, Bank of Scotland, and its offshoot The Mortgage Business—all part of the same group—failed to take struggling customers’ financial circumstances into account when arranging repayments between April 2011 and December 2015, according to the FCA. Over 250,000 customers with mortgage arrears may have been adversely impacted.
“The FCA is very mindful of the impact of pandemic-related issues, and treating customers fairly remains a high priority for it,” says Tom Snelling, a partner at law firm Signature Litigation. “We can expect to see the regulator come down hard on rough treatment of customers by financial institutions during the current economic difficulties.”
Snelling adds that “alongside these types of investigations, the FCA has also been dealing with legacy issues from the financial crisis over 10 years ago. It has needed to prioritize resources and that has slowed progress on a number of investigations.”"
