Alex Cox

Practice Areas

Alex Cox is an associate in the London office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the Litigation & Trial Department.

Alex has a broad practice, with experience of acting on a variety of disputes and advisory matters for clients across a wide range of industries. He has worked on cases in the High Court, Competition Appeal Tribunal, Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court.

Alex has particular expertise in competition/anti-trust litigation, as well as litigation and investigations in the financial services sector. He has represented leading banks and corporates in complex disputes, frequently with an international element. These matters include the first reported instance of the English courts granting anti-suit injunctive relief in support of a foreign-seated arbitration, which included successful hearings before the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. Alex acts on precedent-setting cases in fast-developing areas of English law, including in defending clients from increasing numbers of claims brought under the UK’s competition class action regime and the securities litigation regime under sections 90 and 90A of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.

Alex has also acted for clients in arbitration proceedings as well in large-scale investigations by global regulators, including the Financial Conduct Authority, the Serious Fraud Office, the Payment Systems Regulator, and the Charity Commission in the UK, as well as the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in the US.

Alex has completed secondments at a leading UK bank and an international tobacco company.