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Banking Litigation - UK-wide

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Band 2

What the Team is Known For

Slaughter and May draws from a strong bench of distinguished sector experts to handle a full range of disputes in the banking industry, alongside considerable strengths in global regulatory investigations. The department is regularly instructed by major institutions in the retail, corporate and investment banking sectors. Slaughter and May also enjoys capability in the related areas of corporate crime and insolvency. It displays skill in handling complex matters relating to structured financial products and derivatives.

Work Highlights

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  • Slaughter & May advised Mercuria Energy Trading Europe in claims brought against it and co-defendant NatWest arising out of missing trader VAT in the carbon emissions market.

Strengths

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Slaughters regularly works on significant, complicated, high-profile matters and is outstanding in that work.

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The litigation team at Slaughters is calm, measured and strategic.

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Slaughter & May is a go-to banking litigation firm for complex matters.

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Notable Practitioners

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Deborah Finkler
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Deborah Finkler
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Eminent Practitioners
Deborah Finkler assists clients with a broad range of contentious financial matters, including both banking-related litigation and regulatory investigations. She has experience advising global banks and financial institutions on major disputes involving LIBOR manipulation and financial mis-selling. She is also managing partner at Slaughter and May.
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Ewan Brown
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Ewan Brown
2
Band 2
Ewan Brown has longstanding experience acting on behalf of banks and other financial institutions in major multiparty litigation. He is also adept at handling investigations and other regulatory issues.

Ewan is an excellent disputes lawyer who is very strong in this space.

Ewan is a very good, no nonsense lawyer who is pragmatic in the way he approaches things.

Ewan is a special lawyer who is very strong technically.

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Jonathan Clark
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Jonathan Clark
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Band 4
Jonathan Clark has a notable practice representing high-profile clients in a broad range of contentious banking matters. He offers complementary skill in criminal and regulatory investigations.
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Gayathri Kamalanathan
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Band 5

Gayathri Kamalanathan draws on her considerable in-house senior experience to assist major names in the banking sector on a wide range of matters. She has expertise handling domestic and cross-border litigation and investigations.

Gayathri has a real depth of in-house experience which means she also has exceptionally good client skills. She also has strong technical expertise and commercial acumen.

Gayathri maintains a strong financial institutions practice and brings good experience to any case.

Gayathri is a very effective litigator and an excellent lawyer with a strong reputation.

Gayathri has a really strong technical edge, lots of in-house experience and an ability to apply her depth of legal knowledge in a proper commercial context.

Gayathri is a tremendous writer, thinker and manager of complex processes.

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Deborah Finkler
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Deborah Finkler
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Eminent Practitioners
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Ewan Brown
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Ewan Brown
2
Band 2
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Jonathan Clark
4
Jonathan Clark
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Band 4
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5
Gayathri Kamalanathan
5
Band 5
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