Alan Watts

Practice Areas

Commercial Litigation, Class Actions, Defamation, Defamation and Reputation, Dispute Resolution, Partnerships and LLPs

Career

Alan is a disputes partner and global co-head of class actions based in London.

Alan works with clients on all forms of dispute resolution including High Court litigation, arbitration and mediation proceedings. He is also the firm’s Head of Global Class Actions, Head of Commercial Litigation UK and Co-Head of Partnerships.

Alan has nearly 30 years dispute resolution experience and is an extremely versatile dispute resolution lawyer.

Alan has significant expertise encompassing commercial disputes, partnerships, media and entertainment law and defamation and privacy. He is sought out for difficult and complex cases often involving proceedings and the use of injunctions in numerous jurisdictions. He is a go-to specialist for companies and individuals whose reputation or privacy may be under threat and is regularly called upon to prevent the unauthorised use of confidential information.