Philip A Pfeffer

Practice Areas

Product Liability: Mainly Defendant, Class Actions, Commercial Litigation, Dispute Resolution, Crisis Prevention and Management, Public law and regulatory

Personal

Philip is a partner in the dispute resolution division in London.

Philip is a trusted advisor to numerous global companies in the consumer products sector and advises them on their biggest and most important disputes around the world. He has coordinated the defence of numerous individual and class action products liability lawsuits in numerous jurisdictions and advises consumer product manufacturers on issues of regulatory compliance and in judicial challenges of regulation. He has also worked on a wide range of disputes ranging from complex multi-national commercial matters, investment treaty law disputes and international trade law cases.

He has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law in New York and has also lectured on product liability at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Work Highlights

- Associated British Foods on product liability matters

- British American Tobacco in numerous judicial challenges to tobacco control regulatory measures (e.g., plain packaging, graphic health warnings, ingredient bans and tobacco levies) in more than a dozen jurisdictions in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas

- Car and truck manufacturers and technology companies in relation to product liability arising from connected and autonomous vehicle technologies

- Diageo on proposed South African advertising and promotion ban for beverage alcohol products

- Gruppo Campari in contentious proceedings brought by the Portman Group, the de facto UK regulator for the beverage alcohol industry

- Twinings Tea in consumer fraud class action litigation in California and Arkansas

- Volvo Trucks on product liability matters