Disputes | Banking & Financial Services
We can deal with disputes arising from a variety of financial products and contracts with financial services institutions, including:
- accounting issues
- asset/equipment finance
- insurance
- trusts
- insolvency/restructuring
- loan agreements
- guarantees
- secured lending
- data protection
- trade finance
We have in-depth experience of advising on the international tracing, preservation and recovery of assets consequent upon fraud, and we have experience of substantial claims against fiduciaries (including breach of trust, knowing receipt and dishonest assistance). We also have experience of disputes arising out of cheques and other instruments, and we are skilled in dealing with the implications of electronic systems.
Many of the disputes we deal with are international in nature.
We can assist clients to make complaints to the Financial Ombudsman Service.
Examples of work include:
acting for Swiss clients of a collapsed Scottish broker bringing claims for dishonest assistance against an English CFD provider
acting for a Danish bank in a claim against an individual resident in England
acting for an individual resident offshore in claims concerning certain high-risk investments against a UK financial institution
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