Addleshaw Goddard

Addleshaw Goddard maintains a ‘strong and well-grounded team’ with ’vast institutional-side experience in both investment and retail banking disputes’. The practice is well regarded for managing high-value, market-shaping litigation in the UK courts, integrating its core disputes expertise with capabilities in investigations, financial regulation and fintech. Beyond its traditional clearing bank base, the firm increasingly acts for digital asset businesses, hedge funds and private equity houses. Head of team Richard Clayton is a ‘highly experienced and top-class litigator’ specialising in structured products and payment fraud. Key practitioners include ’fiercely intelligent’ tactician Sivan Daniels, heavyweight finance expert Alex Unger, and James Herring, ‘a first-rate litigator’ with particular expertise in retail banking and payment disputes. The team is further supported by recent lateral hires James Voos, who joined from Simmons & Simmons in January 2026, and James Southworth, who joined from Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP in June 2025 to bolster the firm’s bench strength for investment banking and cross-border disputes, particularly within the Middle East.