Seamless, global litigation solutions for the right results
As global economic forces and new regulations trigger litigation trends, financial services leaders operating around the world must have a plan to manage a diverse range of challenges. Reducing the risk and cost of litigation, especially in times of disruption and change, calls for the right team of advisors. We can help.
The most competitive financial services industry players understand how to manage uncertainty about rising inflation, increasing interest rates and the pace of economic recovery from COVID-19. Regulatory developments, including a focus on consumers, ESG, prudent lending, new benchmarks and many other complications are at the forefront of today’s concerns. Banks and other financial institutions need to reduce and manage legal, regulatory, financial and reputational risks.
Your day-to-day risk management exercise involves investigating, identifying and monitoring contentious and regulatory issues across your global operations. You need to partner with litigation and regulatory counsel who are attuned to risks wherever you do business.
Our Financial Services Litigation team, ranked in Band 1 for banking litigation in Chambers Global, advises and defends many of the world’s leading banks and corporations in their most substantial and sensitive disputes. This includes high-stakes litigation, class actions, and related regulatory proceedings before courts and tribunals around the world. The litigation threat continues to evolve with an increase in fraud claims, sanctions risks and breach, greenwashing and other ESG claims, privacy and data breach claims, class actions, and funded proceedings.
“Recommended for 'heavyweight banking disputes,' DLA Piper's litigation and regulatory team attracts praise for its 'breadth of experience and skills across all seniority levels.'”
Clients benefit from our ability to manage large, multidisciplinary teams across international borders, spanning the lifecycle of a dispute from investigation stage, through contentious regulatory proceedings to litigation or arbitration.
We litigate wherever our clients are based. In the high courts of England, the state and federal courts of the US, the high courts of Europe, Hong Kong, Singapore or in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) courts and beyond. We arbitrate before all the major arbitral institutions and were a founding sponsor of the P.R.I.M.E. Finance arbitration and mediation tribunal, established in the Hague to resolve disputes relating to complex financial transactions.
Our clients depend on us to watch for and advise on emerging threats, develop effective strategies that respond to the nuances of a particular suit and keep their overall business objectives in mind.
