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Linklaters LLP

ONE SILK STREET, LONDON, EC2Y 8HQ, ENGLAND

Tel:: Work 020 7456 2000
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DX:: 10 LONDON CITY EC3

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Andrew Hughes

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Litigation.

Position

Specialist in commercial dispute resolution, with particular experience of domestic and international litigation and arbitration in the following areas: banking – including derivatives, financial services and mergers and acquisitions; professional negligence (bankers, accountants and lawyers); commercial judicial review; international trade; conflicts of law and jurisdictional disputes; contractual disputes. Extensive experience of fraud and regulatory investigations.

Career

Trainee solicitor Linklaters, London and New York 1992-94; associate, London 1994-95; associate, Hong Kong 1995-97; managing associate, London 1997-2002; partner 2002; solicitor advocate (Higher Courts Civil).

Education

Brasenose College, Oxford (1991 MA Law).

Practice Areas

Arbitration, ADR, mediation; Litigation - commercial

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