Banking Litigation
UK Guide 2025 : UK-wide
Band 3
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Travers Smith has significant capability with respect to industry-wide regulatory investigations and litigation stemming from major insolvencies. It acts both on behalf of banks and against them and is also able to draw from significant wider strengths in its finance, corporate recovery and financial services departments. Travers Smith boasts notable experience in handling cases with significant cross-border aspects.
Strengths
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"Travers Smith is very good at strategic thinking, as well as being proactive, commercial and thorough in its approach."
"The team's responses are swift and their prioritisation is excellent. They work extremely hard to get their clients where they need to be."
"Travers Smith does excellent work in this space, and the whole team is very high quality."
"Travers Smith is very good at strategic thinking, as well as being proactive, commercial and thorough in its approach."
"The team's responses are swift and their prioritisation is excellent. They work extremely hard to get their clients where they need to be."
"Travers Smith does excellent work in this space, and the whole team is very high quality."
Notable Practitioners
Caroline Edwards has a varied financial litigation practice acting for investment banks in complex, multi-jurisdictional disputes. She is also an excellent choice of counsel for private equity-related matters.
"Caroline is a very strong lawyer in this market."
"Caroline is a brilliant strategist who has a strong technical background."
Robert Fell is recognised for his skills in handling complex financial litigation and regularly acts in disputes relating to investment banking transactions, often with a cross-border dimension. He is the firm's head of dispute resolution as well as co-head of the cross-practice regulatory investigations group.
"Rob gives excellent strategic advice. He sees the whole picture and has extensive experience of litigation tactics."
"Rob is a very seasoned and thorough banking litigator."
"Rob has really good commercial sense and great judgement when it comes to litigation."