A decade on from the financial crisis, the most high-profile cases of 2019 and 2020 show the City’s top disputes teams remain busy
Financial Regulation – Increased focus on culture raises question: Is everything OK?
Culture dominated Legal Business’ second Financial Regulatory and Disputes Summit. We bring you highlights from the opening remarks and our first debate as we explore how City institutions are coping with the new regulatory climate
With the complexity of commercial disputes intensifying, litigation support services are at a premium. We assess the options available
A report on the existential crisis facing the modern judiciary
We report on two set-piece debates from the 2019 International Arbitration Summit
After a decade of shaking up the disputes scene, can boutiques thrive for another ten years in a seemingly saturated market?
A golden decade closes but the 2020s promise more
As our 2020 Disputes Yearbook hits desks, it is an appropriate moment to reflect on how litigation and arbitration evolved through the decade just past.
Market Reports
Intellectual Property – A delicate balance
Fraud – Sleight of hand
Tax Litigation – Introducing the hard line
Construction – Building a case
Perspectives
Stewarts sponsored foreword
Litigation in the post-Brexit world – 2020 and beyond
Litigation market briefings
Stewarts: Disruption, disintermediation and disputes
Singh & Associates: The changing paradigm of commercial disputes in India
Brown Rudnick: Surveillance capitalism
Pinheiro Neto Advogados: Parties’ ability to agree on procedural aspects of a lawsuit under Brazilian law
Brodies: Seeing litigation through many lenses
Market profile
Finance market briefings
White & Case: A cultural shift – has the fallout from the financial crisis changed corporate culture in financial services or is there still work to be done?
GOLAW: Four tips for successful foreclosure in Ukraine
Singh & Associates: Reverse corporate insolvency resolution process
Gilbert + Tobin: Financial services regulation in Australia at boiling point
Market profile
Patent litigation market briefings
Pinsent Masons: Business as usual in the UK courts
VdA: IP litigation in Portugal – from the ’00s to the ’20s
LexCase: French litigation relating to the healthcare sector – legal trends
Litigation services market briefings
Independent Mediators: The Singapore Convention – The mediator’s perspective
Market profile
Maltin PR: The rise of litigation PR
Harbour Litigation Funding: The coming of age of litigation funding
Grant Thornton: From Barings to Bitcoin, the forensic accounting market – past, present and future
Fraud market briefings
Stewarts: 2020 fraud – Is the picture any clearer?
Basham, Ringe y Correa: A guide to white-collar offences
Global profiles
Shoosmiths (UK)
MoloLamken (Latin America)
Poul Schmith (Denmark)
SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan (Philippines)
Gall (Hong Kong)
DLA Piper (Greece)
The Bar market briefings
Hardwicke: The latest from the Lloyds/HBOS litigation
Twenty Essex: The evolution of the Commercial Bar
Offshore market briefing
Collas Crill: After a busy year in offshore litigation, what lies ahead in 2020?
Tax market briefing
Simmons & Simmons: Tax disputes – Beyond Brexit
Market profile
Construction market briefing
Watson Farley and Williams: Key trends in contentious construction
International arbitration market briefings
BBH, attorneys-at-law: Arbitration in the Czech Republic in 2020 – 25 years of the Arbitration Act and counting
Clyde & Co: Settlement facilitation or how to cut short an arbitration and save time and costs
Market profile
Regional profiles
Trowers & Hamlins
Cripps Pemberton Greenish
Technology market briefing
Market profile
Addleshaw Goddard: Technology projects – Plan for success (and if things go wrong)