Clive Zietman

Practice Areas

Clive’s leads the commercial litigation team at Stewarts and has been involved in a wide range of high-value claims including high-profile frauds, professional negligence claims and banking disputes. His work regularly involves an international dimension. He has been involved in several actions against banks, a task that most central London law firms are unable to undertake as a result of conflicts of interest, and has acted as a supervising solicitor appointed by the court in search order cases.

He has been involved in several high-profile search order cases including the Ferrari secrets case and the Elton John stolen refuse dispute.

Clive acted for 83 bankers in a case against Commerzbank regarding unpaid bonuses and worked on the RBS shareholder litigation case concerning the 2008 right issue.

Career

On qualification in 1985, Clive joined Herbert Smith where he worked for many years as an assistant. He set up his own firm in 1994, which grew to become a 13-partner firm seven years later. Clive was Head of Commercial Litigation at Manches from 2004 until 2009 when he joined Stewarts.

Publications

Clive has written widely about fraud and dispute resolution both in the legal and national press and lectures regularly on both subjects.