Banking and Financial Markets Litigation

Our conflict free platform means we are unconstrained in who we can act for and against. We can therefore offer clients who are involved in disputes on both sides of the customer/institutional relationship access to high quality expertise from lawyers who have significant experience in handling such disputes.

The team has specialist experience in negligence claims, complex securities litigation, contract enforcement, as well as disputes relating to losses arising from financial products.

Signature is highly ranked in Chambers and The Legal 500 for Banking Litigation

The Legal 500 UK Guide consistently ranks Signature as a ‘Leading Firm’ for its banking litigation expertise, and the practice is praised for its “great specialist knowledge” and is noted as “a very professional team managing a complex international case across many jurisdictions.” The Chambers UK Guide also ranks the practice highly and praises the firm’s “wide experience of heavyweight banking disputes.”

In addition to ranking in The Legal 500, Chambers and Partners Guide ranks Signature’s founding partner, Graham Huntley, in Band 1 for Banking Litigation, and have identified his “enviable reputation” whilst describing him as “extremely tenacious.” He has previously been described as “very committed and very driven,” enjoying a “stellar reputation” for his “great knowledge and experience,” and noting that “he’s very bright, very hard-working, he’s a good tactician and he offers very sound advice.” The Legal 500, which ranks Graham in its Hall of Fame, praises him as “a doyen of London banking litigation” and “a master tactician.”

The Legal 500 recognises London-based partner Abdulali Jiwaji as having “an ability to analyse difficult issues and provide concise and clear advice”. In Chambers Global he has been described as being a “technically sound, sensible and robust litigator who always finds practical solutions”.

Kate Gee has over ten years’ experience acting in complex, high value, cross border disputes, including banking litigation, civil fraud and asset tracing claims and general commercial litigation. Kate is ranked in the Chambers UK 2022 guide for Civil Fraud and is described as having “notable experience in civil fraud work” and commended for having “a real commercial handle on things and is completely unflappable”.

In Paris, the practice is led by partner Thomas Rouhette, who is described as “an intelligent and clear-minded lawyer”, a “tough but excellent” litigator, and “a good strategist and the best trial lawyer [the client has] seen in the French court system”. He is consistently ranked in the Chambers and Legal 500 Guides for his litigation expertise and is a member of The Legal 500’s ‘Hall of Fame’ for his market leading practice.